# scraping-tweets-from-account

This skill pulls tweets, replies and media from a public Twitter/X account through apidojo's tweet scraper on Apify. Handy when you need a dataset for someone else's profile.

- skill · `type=skill` · Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Gemini CLI, OpenCode · 802 installs · ★ 1
- Author: apidojo
- License: Apache-2.0 · policy=mirror · the beginning of the file is at the end of this page
- Source: https://github.com/apidojo-io/apidojo-skills/tree/HEAD/skills/primitives/scraping-tweets-from-account/SKILL.md
- Updated: 2026-05-13
- HTML: https://affpapa.org/en/nevibecode/skills/scraping-tweets-from-account

## What it does

Ask for a profile's posts and the skill runs the `apidojo~tweet-scraper` actor, then hands back a table: tweet text, likes, retweets, replies, media links and a timestamp per row. The flow has four steps — check the account is public, start the actor, poll until `SUCCEEDED`, fetch the dataset.

The bundled `scripts/run_actor.js` waits for the run and writes CSV or JSON for you. There is also an Apify MCP route (`apify:run-actor`) and a plain REST fallback with `curl` plus polling on `RUN_ID`. An `APIFY_TOKEN` environment variable has to be set, or nothing starts.

Filtering is where most of the control sits: `searchTerms` for advanced Twitter queries, `sort` (`Latest`, `Top`, `Latest+Top`), `tweetLanguage`, `maxItems`, `start` and `end` dates, minimum retweet and like counts, image-only or video-only selection. On a timeout the README suggests dropping `maxItems` to 500 per run. Private or suspended accounts come back with 0 results — that is the source's limit, not a broken setup.

## Install

### Claude Code (native platform)

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add apidojo-io/apidojo-skills --skill scraping-tweets-from-account -a claude-code
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `~/.claude/skills/scraping-tweets-from-account/SKILL.md` — Copy the whole skill folder; for one project use .claude/skills/scraping-tweets-from-account/

### Codex

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add apidojo-io/apidojo-skills --skill scraping-tweets-from-account -a codex
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.agents/skills/scraping-tweets-from-account/SKILL.md` — For all projects use ~/.agents/skills/

### Cursor

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add apidojo-io/apidojo-skills --skill scraping-tweets-from-account -a cursor
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.cursor/skills/scraping-tweets-from-account/SKILL.md` — Cursor also reads .agents/skills/ and .claude/skills/

### GitHub Copilot

1. **GitHub CLI**
```bash
gh skill install apidojo-io/apidojo-skills scraping-tweets-from-account
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.github/skills/scraping-tweets-from-account/SKILL.md`

### Gemini CLI

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add apidojo-io/apidojo-skills --skill scraping-tweets-from-account -a gemini-cli
```

2. **Platform CLI**
```bash
gemini skills install https://github.com/apidojo-io/apidojo-skills --path skills/primitives/scraping-tweets-from-account
```

### Windsurf (Devin Desktop)

**Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.devin/skills/scraping-tweets-from-account/SKILL.md` — The legacy .windsurf/skills/ path still works

### OpenCode

**Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add apidojo-io/apidojo-skills --skill scraping-tweets-from-account -a opencode
```

### Claude.ai

**Claude.ai**
- Zip the folder and upload it in Settings → Capabilities → Skills

Where a file is given instead of a command, copy the files from the source to that path: https://github.com/apidojo-io/apidojo-skills/tree/HEAD/skills/primitives/scraping-tweets-from-account/SKILL.md

## When to use it
- export a public account's tweet history to CSV
- collect posts by hashtag with a language filter
- keep only tweets above a like or retweet threshold
- grab media URLs from a user timeline
- compare two accounts' activity over a date range

## Example prompts
- Pull every tweet from `@NASA` for the past month and save it as JSON
- Scrape posts matching `#AI lang:en`, video only, cap at 200 items
- Build a table of this profile's tweets with likes, retweets and dates

## Source text · SKILL.md · Apache-2.0

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```text
---
name: scraping-tweets-from-account
description: >
  Scrapes all tweets, replies, and media from any Twitter/X account using apidojo's
  Tweet scraper on Apify. Triggers when the user asks to: get all tweets from a Twitter
  account, export a user's tweet history, scrape a specific Twitter profile's posts,
  fetch the latest tweets from an account, download tweet data from a user timeline,
  or collect all posts from a Twitter username. Returns tweet text, likes, retweets,
  replies, media URLs, and timestamp per tweet.
  Ideal for journalists, researchers, competitive analysts, and data engineers.
license: Apache-2.0
metadata:
  author: apidojo
  version: "1.0"
  apify-actor: apidojo/tweet-scraper
---

# Scraping Tweets from an Account

Exports the full tweet history of any public Twitter/X account. Returns the raw timeline dataset including replies and media.

## Prerequisites

- `APIFY_TOKEN` environment variable set
- Optional: Apify MCP server installed

## Inputs

| Parameter | Type | Required | Default | Notes |
|-----------|------|----------|---------|-------|
| `searchTerms` | array | ✅ | `[]` | Twitter advanced search queries (e.g. `["#AI lang:en", "from:NASA"]`) |
| `sort` | string | Optional | `Top` | Sort order: `Latest`, `Top`, or `Latest+Top` |
| `tweetLanguage` | string | Optional | — | ISO 639-1 language code (e.g. `en`) |
| `maxItems` | number | Optional | Unlimited | Maximum tweets to return |
| `onlyVerifiedUsers` | boolean | Optional | `false` | Only tweets from verified users |
| `onlyTwitterBlue` | boolean | Optional | `false` | Only Twitter Blue subscribers |
| `onlyImage` | boolean | Optional | `false` | Only tweets with images |
| `onlyVideo` | boolean | Optional | `false` | Only tweets with videos |
| `onlyQuote` | boolean | Optional | `false` | Only quote tweets |
| `author` | string | Optional | — | Filter to a specific author handle |
| `inReplyTo` | string | Optional | — | Tweets replying to a specific handle |
| `mentioning` | string | Optional | — | Tweets mentioning a specific handle |
| `geotaggedNear` | string | Optional | — | Tweets near a location |
| `withinRadius` | string | Optional | — | Radius around geotaggedNear |
| `geocode` | string | Optional | — | Lat/lng + radius string |
| `placeObjectId` | string | Optional | — | Tweets tagged with a place |
| `minimumRetweets` | number | Optional | — | Minimum retweet count |
```
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