X (Twitter) Community Tweets Scraper

X (Twitter)

Operated by Sourcelane✓ verified

A scraper for X (Twitter) Communities that extracts every post from a specified Community in a single run, providing full post text, post identifiers and canonical URLs, creation timestamps, detected language, comprehensive engagement metrics (retweets, replies, likes, quotes, view counts, bookmark counts), author metadata (username, numeric ID, display name, verification status, follower count, profile image URL), and a pagination cursor for fetching subsequent pages; operates without login or cookies and is focused on bulk collection of Community posts for analysis.

Verified Sep 28, 3:56 AM

$0.0015

per tweet

Up to 100 per call. Only pay for results returned; failed calls are refunded.

What people use it for

Niche audience research to analyze topic-focused Community discussions
Content monitoring of posts within a specific Community
Lead generation by surfacing active, engaged accounts posting in a Community
Trend detection to identify emerging discussions within a Community

Trust & reliability

7d uptime trend

Window	Uptime	Success rate	p50	p95
24h	—	—	—	—
7d	—	—	—	—
30d	—	—	—	—

Calling contract

Call it through Sourcelane's gateway or MCP server. We run the connector, apply your agent's spend guardrails, and bill only the results returned.

Call it via Sourcelane

curl -X POST https://api.usesourcelane.com/v1/call \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer sl_live_your_agent_key" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"listing":"x-community-tweets-scraper","params":{"communityId":"1493446837214187523","maxItems":5},"maxResults":10}'

Request params

Field	Type	Required	Description
`communityId`	string	required	Numeric X Community ID or full Community URL (https://x.com/i/communities/). Find it in the address bar when viewing a Community on x.com.
`maxItems`	integer	optional	Maximum tweets to return. Set 0 for unlimited (auto-paginates across the whole Community feed). Capped at 100 per call.
`pageId`	string	optional	Optional. Paste NEXT_PAGE_ID from a previous run's Key-value store to fetch the next page.

Each result contains

Field	Type	Description
`communityId`	string	Community Id
`tweetId`	string	Tweet Id
`url`	string	Url
`text`	string	Text
`createdAt`	string	Created At
`lang`	string	Lang
`retweetCount`	integer	Retweet Count
`replyCount`	integer	Reply Count
`likeCount`	integer	Like Count
`quoteCount`	integer	Quote Count
`viewCount`	integer	View Count
`bookmarkCount`	integer	Bookmark Count
`isReply`	boolean	—
`conversationId`	string	—
`authorUsername`	string	—
`authorUserId`	string	—
`authorName`	string	—
`authorIsBlueVerified`	boolean	—
`authorFollowersCount`	integer	—
`authorProfilePicture`	string	—

Use X (Twitter) Community Tweets Scraper from Claude, ChatGPT or Cursor

Pick your tool and connect in under a minute. Then just ask — for example: “Find the 50 most-liked tweets about 'MCP servers' this month and summarise the takes.”

Connect Claude

Web, desktop and mobile. Paste one URL.

1Copy your personal connector URL
2In Claude open Settings → Connectors → Add custom connector
3Paste the URL and click Add — done

Manual setup (config files, REST, Python) +

Claude Code

Adds the Sourcelane MCP server with your key as a header.

terminal

claude mcp add --transport http sourcelane https://api.usesourcelane.com/mcp \
  --header "Authorization: Bearer sl_live_your_agent_key"

Claude Desktop (config file)

Alternative to the connector URL: add to claude_desktop_config.json, then restart Claude.

claude_desktop_config.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "sourcelane": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "mcp-remote",
        "https://api.usesourcelane.com/mcp",
        "--header",
        "Authorization:${AUTH_HEADER}"
      ],
      "env": {
        "AUTH_HEADER": "Bearer sl_live_your_agent_key"
      }
    }
  }
}

Cursor & Windsurf

Add to ~/.cursor/mcp.json (or Windsurf's mcp_config.json).

mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "sourcelane": {
      "url": "https://api.usesourcelane.com/mcp",
      "headers": {
        "Authorization": "Bearer sl_live_your_agent_key"
      }
    }
  }
}

VS Code

Save as .vscode/mcp.json. VS Code prompts for your key once.

.vscode/mcp.json

{
  "servers": {
    "sourcelane": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://api.usesourcelane.com/mcp",
      "headers": {
        "Authorization": "Bearer ${input:sourcelane-key}"
      }
    }
  },
  "inputs": [
    {
      "type": "promptString",
      "id": "sourcelane-key",
      "description": "Sourcelane agent key",
      "password": true
    }
  ]
}

ChatGPT Custom GPT (Actions)

Create a GPT → Actions → Import from URL, then Authentication: API Key, Bearer.

OpenAPI schema URL

https://usesourcelane.com/openapi.json

REST

One POST. Pass maxResults to cap cost.

curl

curl -X POST https://api.usesourcelane.com/v1/call \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer sl_live_your_agent_key" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"listing":"x-community-tweets-scraper","params":{"communityId":"1493446837214187523","maxItems":5},"maxResults":10}'

Python, LangChain, CrewAI, OpenAI Agents SDK…

Wrap the REST call as a tool, or point an MCP client at the endpoint.

python

import requests

res = requests.post(
    "https://api.usesourcelane.com/v1/call",
    headers={"Authorization": "Bearer sl_live_your_agent_key"},
    json={
        "listing": "x-community-tweets-scraper",
        "params": {"communityId":"1493446837214187523","maxItems":5},
        "maxResults": 10,
    },
    timeout=300,
)
body = res.json()
print(body["receipt"]["chargedMicros"], "micro-USD for", body["receipt"]["results"], "results")
print(body["data"])

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