Verify the current twscrape license, features, and limits in the official repository before you build on it.
Quick answer
Choose twscrape when
You want a Python library or CLI, can supply authorized X/Twitter accounts, and can maintain sessions, rate limits, storage, and exports yourself.
Choose Xquik when
You need tweet search, follower exports, write actions, 1-second monitors, signed webhooks, SDKs, or MCP from one product.
Source-backed twscrape scope
twscrape’s official GitHub README describes it as a Twitter GraphQL API implementation with SNScrape data models. Installation usespip install twscrape, and development installs can point at the GitHub repository.
The README lists support for Search and GraphQL Twitter APIs, and async/await functions that can run multiple scrapers in parallel. It also lists login flow with email verification, saved account sessions, raw Twitter API responses, SNScrape models, and automatic account switching for rate-limit smoothing.
The README says twscrape requires authorized X/Twitter accounts to work with the API. It documents adding accounts with cookies or login credentials, login and relogin CLI commands, account status inspection, account database selection, and optional manual email verification.
The usage examples cover search tabs for Top, Latest, and Media. They cover tweet details, retweeters, tweet replies, and user lookup by login or ID. They also cover following, followers, verified followers, subscriptions, user tweets, user replies, and user media. Other examples show list timelines, trends, raw responses, and converting Tweet and User models to dict or JSON.
The CLI docs cover search, tweet details, replies, retweeters, user lookup, user media, following, followers, verified followers, subscriptions, user timelines, and trends. They also cover one-document-per-line stdout output, raw output, desired limit, and per-endpoint pagination behavior.
The README limitations say request limits reset every 15 minutes per endpoint, and each account has separate limits by operation. They also say user_tweets and user_tweets_and_replies can return about 3,200 tweets maximum, and rate limits may vary by account age and status.
Comparison
Operating model
Compare twscrape and Xquik by output, cost, and handoff. twscrape is an open-source library for developers who want to build and maintain their own X data pipeline. Xquik gives teams hosted API keys, exports, monitoring, support, and billing.Hosting
twscrape requires a self-hosted library and ongoing maintenance. Xquik provides a hosted API and dashboard.
Operational work
With twscrape, teams handle retries, storage, exports, and uptime. Xquik handles exports, uptime, and support.
Ownership fit
Choose twscrape for full code ownership. Choose Xquik for hosted endpoints without building them first.
What to test in Xquik
For API comparisons, price the whole task: endpoint access, pagination, retries, storage, exports, alerts, webhooks, SDKs, and maintenance. Choose Xquik when you need all of them from one product.Tweets, followers & exports
23 extraction tools cover tweets, replies, quotes, reposts, likes, followers, following, verified followers, communities, lists, Spaces, articles, and search. Export results to CSV, JSON, XLSX, Markdown, or API responses.
Automation & writes
18 X write actions cover tweets, media uploads, likes, retweets, follows, DMs, profile updates, and community actions from connected accounts.
Monitoring & delivery
Account and keyword monitors check active streams every 1 second. Store events, poll them, or deliver them through signed webhooks.
Developer tools
Choose REST, an SDK, MCP, or pay-per-use reads. Credit records show each request’s cost.
What to verify in a trial
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Run the real task
Use a real task: search a keyword, export followers, upload media, send a DM, monitor an account, or deliver a webhook. Compare outputs, not feature labels.
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Inspect the output
Confirm returned data, pagination, retry behavior, webhook payloads, export formats, and how much code each call needs. Then compare total cost for the same task: access, included volume, top-ups, and engineering time.
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Check the next integration
Decide where the result goes next: CSV, JSON, webhook, SDK call, MCP tool, dashboard review, or another API.
Migration path
Start with one API-backed task. Keep the current integration running while you compare output shape, latency, pagination, retries, exports, and alert delivery in Xquik. Keep the test small: one task, one output, one cost model, and one owner for the output. Switch only when the Xquik output matches the required records and reduces integration work or cost. twscrape is free to use. You still run, maintain, and monitor it. Price the real workload. On Xquik, Starter is USD 20/month with 140,000 credits. Top-ups are USD 0.00015/credit, webhook and stored-event management are free, and active monitors bill only while enabled.Xquik API overview
Review REST API authentication, endpoint groups, and response patterns.
Integration guide
Map dashboard tools to REST calls, signed webhooks, exports, and MCP tools.
Pricing & billing
Check included credits, top-ups, free operations, and active monitor billing.
Official twscrape site
Verify current product details before making a final decision.