X (Twitter) Followers & Following Scraper

X (Twitter)

Operated by Sourcelane✓ verified

A scraper for X (Twitter) that extracts full followers and/or following lists from public profiles without authentication or cookies; it collects per-account structured metadata including user handle and display name, unique account identifier, profile biography and location, follower/following/tweet/media counts, verification flag and verification type, profile and cover image links, pinned post identifiers, account creation timestamp, and a relationship tag indicating follower or following. The connector supports three operation modes (followers, following, or both), uses cursor-based pagination to resume and scale across runs for large lists, and is designed for high-volume harvesting of account relationship data from public X profiles.

Verified Sep 28, 3:56 AM

$0.001

per user

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

What people use it for

Audience research and competitive analysis on X
Influencer vetting, including verification of follower counts and audience overlap
Lead generation for creator outreach and partnerships
Community mapping to find connections between accounts
Brand monitoring to track which verified accounts follow competitors

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-followers-following-scraper","params":{"username":"elonmusk","maxItems":5},"maxResults":10}'

Request params

Field	Type	Required	Description
`username`	string	required	X (Twitter) username with or without leading @. Profile URLs (https://x.com/username) are also accepted.
`mode`	string	optional	What to fetch: who follows the user, who the user follows, or both.
`maxItems`	integer	optional	Maximum users per relationship type. Set 0 for unlimited. Capped at 100 per call.
`pageId`	string	optional	Optional. Cursor from a previous run to resume. Only valid when mode is 'followers' or 'following' (not 'both').

Each result contains

Field	Type	Description
`scrapedFromUsername`	string	—
`relationship`	string	Relation
`username`	string	Username
`userId`	string	—
`name`	string	Name
`description`	string	Bio
`location`	string	Location
`isBlueVerified`	boolean	Verified
`verifiedType`	null	—
`followersCount`	null	Followers
`followingCount`	null	Following
`tweetsCount`	null	—
`mediaCount`	null	—
`likesCount`	null	—
`createdAt`	null	—
`profilePicture`	null	Avatar
`coverPicture`	null	—
`pinnedTweetIds`	array	—
`profileUrl`	string	Profile
`isAutomated`	boolean	—
`possiblySensitive`	boolean	—

Use X (Twitter) Followers & Following 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-followers-following-scraper","params":{"username":"elonmusk","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-followers-following-scraper",
        "params": {"username":"elonmusk","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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