How to scrape Twitter/X without paying for the $42K API

How-to guides·1 min read·Updated 2026-05-13·3 sections

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01What you can extract
02Per tweet
03Anti-bot strategy

In 2023 Elon Musk locked the Twitter API behind a $42,000/year enterprise tier — making it effectively unavailable for SMB use. Every B2B sales team, growth marketer and journalist hit a wall.

Kavex scrapes the same public profile + tweet data via the X.com HTML surface. No API key, no $42K.

01

What you can extract

Per profile: display name, bio, location, website, joined date, follower/following count, verified status, profile photo. Plus the last N tweets.

Rate

1 credit / tweet

Twitter

1 credit

$0.001

credits never expire

Per 1,000

$1.00

1,000 credits

RUN SIZECREDITSCOST

30 tweets30$0.03

100 tweets100$0.10

500 tweets500$0.50

1,000 tweets1,000$1.00

1 credits a tweet · 1 credit = $0.001 · a run that finds fewer pays less

02

Per tweet

Tweet ID, URL, author handle + name, full text, publish time, reply/retweet/like/view counts.

03

Anti-bot strategy

X has one of the most aggressive bot-detection stacks on the open web. Kavex uses stealth Playwright + rotating DataImpulse residential proxies + sticky session per job. 1 credit ($0.001) per tweet.

Written after running it

Last run

plumbers · London · Google Maps

Rows

30

Time

23s

Cost

€0.06

30 rows × 2 credits = 60 credits · 1 credit = $0.001

Every number on this page comes from that run, not from a price list.

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Kavex vs Apify Kavex vs Phantombuster

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