🐦 Twitter / X Advanced Search Scraper – Apify Actor A powerful, enterprise-grade Apify Actor for scraping Twitter / X data using advanced search operators — no API key required. This actor supports 50+ filters, three search modes, rich metadata extraction, and reliable scraping with optional residential proxies. --- ## 🚀 Key Features ### 🔎 Three Search Modes * Global Search Search tweets across all of Twitter using keywords, hashtags, time, geo, media, and engagement filters. * Profile Search Scrape tweets from a specific user profile (date range, keywords, engagement). * User Search Discover Twitter user profiles based on search queries. --- ### 🎯 Advanced Filtering (50+ Options) Engagement * Min / Max likes, retweets, replies * Presets: low, medium, high, viral Media * Images, videos, GIFs * Links, news articles * Polls (2–4 options) * Twitter Cards (YouTube, apps, summaries, videos) Content * Keywords, exact phrases * Hashtags, cashtags * Excluded keywords / hashtags * Question-based tweets * Sentiment via emoticons 🙂 Users * From / To / Mention users * Exclude users * Verified / Blue verified only * Twitter list members Time * Date range (since / until) * Relative time (7d, 24h) * Tweet ID ranges * Unix timestamps Geo * City / landmark search * Radius (25km, 15mi) * Geocode (lat, lng) * Twitter place IDs --- ### 📦 Rich Data Extraction Each result includes: * Full tweet text * Tweet ID & URL * Timestamp * Engagement stats * Media URLs (HQ images, videos) * Author profile details: * Name * Username * Bio * Followers * Verification status --- ### 🔐 Privacy & Reliability * ✅ No Twitter API key required * 🔁 Automatic retries * 🌍 Residential proxy support (via Apify) * ⚡ Optimized crawling & pagination --- ## 📋 Input Configuration The actor supports simple search or fully structured advanced filters. ### Minimal Example json { "query": "python programming", "numberOfTweets": 100 } ### Advanced Example json { "query": "AI OR Machine Learning", "queryType": "Top", "numberOfTweets": 500, "engagementLevel": "high", "mediaTypes": ["image", "video"], "contentLanguage": "en", "timeSince": "2024-01-01", "timeUntil": "2024-12-31", "usersVerifiedOnly": true } > 💡 You can use either query OR advanced filters — at least one must be provided. --- ## 📤 Output Results are stored in the default Apify dataset. ### Example Tweet Output json { "searchType": "post", "type": "tweet", "query": "python programming", "data": { "tweet_url": "https://x.com/username/status/123456789", "tweet_id": "123456789", "author": { "fullname": "Python Dev", "username": "pythondev", "verified": true }, "text": "Just released a new Python library! #python #coding", "stats": { "likes": 150, "retweets": 45, "comments": 12 }, "media": [ { "type": "image", "url": "https://pbs.twimg.com/media/..." } ] } } --- ## 📊 Built-in Dataset Views Once the actor finishes, you get instant views: * 📄 All Tweets * 👤 Users * 🔥 High Engagement Tweets * 🖼 Tweets with Media Perfect for: * Sentiment analysis * Market research * Lead generation * News tracking * Influencer discovery --- ## 🛠️ Development Tech Stack * Python * Apify SDK * Crawlee ### Local Setup bash git clone <repo> pip install -r requirements.txt apify run --- ## 📄 License Licensed under Apache License 2.0 Free to use, modify, and integrate in commercial projects. --- ## ⭐ Use Cases * Social listening & trend analysis * Brand monitoring * Crypto & stock sentiment tracking * Lead generation * Academic & research datasets * Media & journalism research --- 🔥 If you need precision Twitter scraping without API limits — this actor is built for you.