Get an X (Twitter) tweet

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Retrieve one public tweet by permalink: the raw TweetResultByRestId tweet object with its author, text, entities, media, quoted or retweeted tweet, note text for long posts, engagement counters and views.

GET/v1/twitter/tweetx-api-key

Headers

Get your API key

x-api-keystringrequiredheader

Your ScrapeAtlas customer key. Create one on /account/ and set SCRAPEATLAS_API_KEY.

Query parameters

urlstringrequiredquery

x.com or twitter.com status permalink (https://x.com/{handle}/status/{id}, /i/web/status/{id} or /i/status/{id}); the numeric ID identifies the tweet, the handle in the path is not checked. Query strings and fragments are ignored.

max 2048 chars

Examplehttps://x.com/example/status/1000000000000000001

trimenumquery

true returns rest_id, views, source and legacy only.

one of: true, false

Response fields

__typenamestring

Always included.

rest_idstring

Always included.

core.user_results.resultobject

The author's user object as X embeds it in the pinned document (legacy identity layout with screen_name, name, counters and profile image).

Always included.

legacy.full_textstring

Always included.

legacy.id_strstring

Always included.

legacy.created_atstring

Always included.

legacy.user_id_strstring

Always included.

requestIdstring

Request correlation identifier.

HTTP attempts (guest activation plus GraphQL reads, including the shared retry), decoded bytes and duration for the operation.

accounting.upstreamRequestsinteger

Always included.

≥ 0

accounting.responseBytesinteger

Always included.

≥ 0

accounting.durationMsnumber

Always included.

≥ 0

successboolean

True when usable data is returned; inspect status and coverage for omissions.

statusenum

success, partial, failed, or challenged. HTTP 200 can be partial.

one of: success, partial

sourceUrlstring

Canonical x.com URL of the profile, tweet or community.

absolute HTTPS URL

fetchedAtstring

UTC retrieval time.

Complete means the pinned GraphQL document was returned without omitted entries; warnings name every skipped entry kind or cap.

coverage.sourcestring

Always included.

coverage.completeboolean

Always included.

coverage.warningsstring[]

Always included.

HTTP 200 returns the success variant. Check status: partial means usable data with warnings, and failed or challenged requests carry a failure object described in Errors & responses.

Error codes

HTTP	failure.code	Meaning
400	`invalid_request`	Missing, duplicate, malformed or unsupported parameters, handles or URLs.
401	`unauthorized`	Invalid API key.
404	`not_found`	Unknown handle, tweet or community.
403	`restricted_page`	The account is suspended or unavailable, or the tweet is withheld, protected or age-restricted for logged-out visitors.
429	`upstream_rate_limited`	X rate limited guest activation or the GraphQL read.
502	`upstream_challenged`	X refused the guest token or the request (status challenged).
502	`operation_unavailable`	X no longer serves the pinned persisted query for this operation.
502	`unsafe_redirect`	X answered the API request with a redirect.
502	`unsupported_page`	The GraphQL result is missing, mismatched or structurally unsupported.
502	`response_too_large`	The response exceeded 4 MiB.
502	`payload_too_complex`	The response exceeded the JSON depth or node limits.
502	`request_limit`	The upstream request budget was exhausted.
502	`upstream_error`	Network failure or HTTP 5xx after the single retry.
503	`busy`	All retrieval slots are busy.
504	`timeout`	The 20-second deadline elapsed.

Code example

curl "https://api.scrapeatlas.com/v1/twitter/tweet?url=https%3A%2F%2Fx.com%2Fexample%2Fstatus%2F1000000000000000001" \
  -H "x-api-key: YOUR_API_KEY"

const response = await fetch(
  "https://api.scrapeatlas.com/v1/twitter/tweet?url=https%3A%2F%2Fx.com%2Fexample%2Fstatus%2F1000000000000000001",
  {
    headers: {
      "x-api-key": "YOUR_API_KEY"
    }
  }
);

const data = await response.json();
console.log(data.status, data);

type Result = {
  status: "success" | "partial" | "failed" | "challenged";
  requestId: string;
  [field: string]: unknown;
};

const response = await fetch(
  "https://api.scrapeatlas.com/v1/twitter/tweet?url=https%3A%2F%2Fx.com%2Fexample%2Fstatus%2F1000000000000000001",
  {
    headers: {
      "x-api-key": process.env.SCRAPEATLAS_API_KEY!
    }
  }
);

const data = (await response.json()) as Result;
if (data.status === "failed" || data.status === "challenged") {
  throw new Error(`X (Twitter) request failed: ${data.requestId}`);
}
console.log(data);

import requests

response = requests.get(
    "https://api.scrapeatlas.com/v1/twitter/tweet",
    headers={"x-api-key": "YOUR_API_KEY"},
    params={
        "url": "https://x.com/example/status/1000000000000000001"
    },
    timeout=60,
)
data = response.json()
print(data["status"], data)

package main

import (
	"encoding/json"
	"fmt"
	"net/http"
)

func main() {
	req, _ := http.NewRequest("GET", "https://api.scrapeatlas.com/v1/twitter/tweet?url=https%3A%2F%2Fx.com%2Fexample%2Fstatus%2F1000000000000000001", nil)
	req.Header.Set("x-api-key", "YOUR_API_KEY")
	resp, err := http.DefaultClient.Do(req)
	if err != nil {
		panic(err)
	}
	defer resp.Body.Close()

	var data map[string]interface{}
	json.NewDecoder(resp.Body).Decode(&data)
	fmt.Println(data["status"], data)
}

import java.net.URI;
import java.net.http.HttpClient;
import java.net.http.HttpRequest;
import java.net.http.HttpResponse;

public class Main {
    public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {
        var client = HttpClient.newHttpClient();
        var request = HttpRequest.newBuilder()
            .uri(URI.create("https://api.scrapeatlas.com/v1/twitter/tweet?url=https%3A%2F%2Fx.com%2Fexample%2Fstatus%2F1000000000000000001"))
            .GET()
            .header("x-api-key", "YOUR_API_KEY")
            .build();
        var response = client.send(request, HttpResponse.BodyHandlers.ofString());
        System.out.println(response.body());
    }
}

Use your sa_live_… customer key at https://api.scrapeatlas.com.

Responses

Successful result. Synthetic example validated against the runtime contract.

{
  "success": true,
  "__typename": "Tweet",
  "core": {
    "user_results": {
      "result": {
        "__typename": "User",
        "id": "VXNlcjoxMjM0NTY3ODkw",
        "rest_id": "1234567890",
        "affiliates_highlighted_label": {},
        "has_graduated_access": true,
        "is_blue_verified": true,
        "legacy": {
          "can_dm": false,
          "created_at": "Mon Jan 02 03:04:05 +0000 2012",
          "description": "Example bio",
          "followers_count": 120,
          "friends_count": 30,
          "name": "Example Person",
          "profile_image_url_https": "https://pbs.twimg.com/profile_images/1/example_normal.jpg",
          "screen_name": "example",
          "statuses_count": 50,
          "verified": false
        },
        "profile_image_shape": "Circle",
        "tipjar_settings": {}
      }
    }
  },
  "edit_control": {
    "edit_tweet_ids": [
      "1000000000000000001"
    ],
    "editable_until_msecs": "1700000000000",
    "is_edit_eligible": false,
    "edits_remaining": "5"
  },
  "grok_analysis_button": true,
  "grok_annotations": {},
  "is_translatable": false,
  "legacy": {
    "bookmark_count": 1,
    "bookmarked": false,
    "created_at": "Tue Feb 03 04:05:06 +0000 2026",
    "conversation_id_str": "1000000000000000001",
    "display_text_range": [
      0,
      12
    ],
    "entities": {
      "hashtags": [],
      "symbols": [],
      "timestamps": [],
      "urls": [],
      "user_mentions": []
    },
    "favorite_count": 2,
    "favorited": false,
    "full_text": "Example text",
    "is_quote_status": false,
    "lang": "en",
    "possibly_sensitive": false,
    "possibly_sensitive_editable": true,
    "quote_count": 0,
    "reply_count": 0,
    "retweet_count": 0,
    "retweeted": false,
    "user_id_str": "1234567890",
    "id_str": "1000000000000000001"
  },
  "rest_id": "1000000000000000001",
  "source": "<a href=\"https://mobile.twitter.com\" rel=\"nofollow\">Twitter Web App</a>",
  "unmention_data": {},
  "views": {
    "count": "321",
    "state": "EnabledWithCount"
  },
  "status": "success",
  "requestId": "00000000-0000-4000-8000-000000000001",
  "fetchedAt": "2026-09-12T12:00:00.000Z",
  "coverage": {
    "source": "public_api",
    "complete": true,
    "warnings": []
  },
  "accounting": {
    "upstreamRequests": 2,
    "responseBytes": 3600,
    "durationMs": 520
  },
  "sourceUrl": "https://x.com/example/status/1000000000000000001"
}

Missing, duplicate, malformed or unsupported parameters, handles or URLs.

{
  "rest_id": "string",
  "views": {},
  "source": "string",
  "legacy": {
    "full_text": "string",
    "id_str": "string",
    "created_at": "string",
    "user_id_str": "string"
  },
  "quoted_status_result": {},
  "requestId": "9d2f1c0a-6b1e-4c7d-9a8e-2f3b4c5d6e7f",
  "accounting": {
    "upstreamRequests": 0,
    "responseBytes": 0,
    "durationMs": 0
  },
  "success": true,
  "status": "success",
  "sourceUrl": "https://example.com/",
  "fetchedAt": "2026-01-01T00:00:00.000Z",
  "coverage": {
    "source": "public_api",
    "complete": true,
    "warnings": [
      "string"
    ]
  }
}