Apify

What it is

Apify is a cloud platform and store of more than a thousand ready-made scrapers (Actors) that you run from a web form, on a schedule or through its API, with results exported as JSON, CSV or Excel or sent to tools like Zapier and Make. For X, the most used Actor is Tweet Scraper V2 by apidojo (about 133,000 users), which searches tweets, profiles and lists at $0.40 per 1,000 tweets, with a minimum of 50 tweets per query; on the Free plan it runs only in demo mode (5 runs a month of up to 10 items, no API access). Apify plans include monthly credit to spend on any Actor: Free $0 with $5, Starter $19, Scale $199 and Business $999 a month, with compute at $0.20 down to $0.13 per unit. X Actors are built by third parties, not by Apify or X, so they break when X changes its site and collecting X data this way conflicts with X's terms of service. Checked on apify.com/pricing and the Actor page November 14, 2026.

Best for

• Researchers and marketers exporting tweets to a spreadsheet without code
• One-off or scheduled bulk pulls of search results and profiles
• Teams already scraping other sites (Instagram, TikTok, Google Maps) in one place

What we like

• No code: fill in a search, run, download a CSV
• Cheap per result: $0.40 per 1,000 tweets on the top X scraper
• Scheduling, webhooks and integrations with Zapier, Make and Google Sheets
• One account covers scrapers for hundreds of other sites

What to watch

• Scraping X conflicts with X's terms of service; X can block it at any time
• X scrapers are third-party Actors that break when X changes, and quality varies by author
• Effectively paid-only for X: the Free plan runs the top X scraper in demo mode with no API access
• Read-only: no posting or replying
• Minimum of 50 tweets per query on the top scraper