Should you build your own GetXAPI?
Twitter/X data API · tweets, profiles, followers, posting, DMs and real-time webhook monitoring at $0.001/call
For personal, read-only scale this is genuinely kinda: twscrape plus a throwaway account gets you tweets from a few handles in a weekend. The gaps are the product: X actively fights automated access, so the DIY version breaks whenever X changes something, burns the accounts it runs on, cannot safely post or DM, has no real-time push, and does not scale. You pay for requests that keep working next week.
ENOriginal research content in English. Original prompt preserved in English.
Build me a personal Twitter/X archive tool in Python.
- Use twscrape (pip) for all X access; I will add one or two throwaway
accounts with `twscrape add_accounts` myself. Never use my real account.
- watchlist.txt holds up to 10 handles, one per line.
- An hourly cron entry point `python fetch.py`: for each handle, pull new
tweets since the last stored id and upsert into SQLite (tweets: id, handle,
text, created_at, like_count, retweet_count, is_reply, is_quote).
- Be gentle: shuffle handle order, sleep 5-15s between handles, and back off
for an hour on repeated failures instead of hammering.
- `python export.py <handle>` writes that handle's archive to JSON and CSV.
- A localhost dashboard (Flask, one page): newest tweets across all handles,
a per-handle sparkline of tweets per day, and a search box over a SQLite
full-text index.
- Local only: no cloud, no accounts beyond the burners, no telemetry;
session data stays in twscrape's own store.
- README: setup, the cron line, and a blunt warning that scraping X breaks
routinely and burner accounts get flagged; when fetch.py starts failing,
re-login or swap accounts.
- Explicitly out of scope: posting, DMs, webhooks/streaming, more than ~10
handles, and anything commercial.The prompt opens pre-filled in your agent. Review it before running.
What would building your own look like?
A Python CLI that pulls tweets and profiles for a shortlist of handles into SQLite on a cron, using an X account you are willing to lose.
What you will need
- a throwaway X account
- patience for re-login breakage
X retired meaningful free API access and priced the official tiers for enterprises, so everyone else either scrapes or pays someone to keep scraping working. The subscription is not the endpoints, it is the ops: absorbing every anti-bot change, keeping sessions alive, and answering for uptime while you build your actual product.
xreliability: every X change is your outage until you patch it
xaccount safety: automation flags and burns the login it runs on
xwrite actions: posting and DMs from a scraper risk real bans
xreal-time push: no webhooks, you poll and you lag
xscale: a few handles works, thousands is a different sport
How much does GetXAPI cost?
- Monthly billing
- $15/mo$15/mo
- Per year
- $180/yr$180/yr
- On a Brazilian card, with 3.5% IOF
- R$78.39/moR$941/yr
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| Plan | Monthly | Annual (per month) | What is included |
|---|---|---|---|
| api free signup | $0 | $0 | $0.10 in credits, roughly 100 standard calls or 2,000 returned tweets; no card. |
| api pay as you go | custom | - | Top-ups start at $10; most reads cost $0.001/call and heavier routes cost $0.002-$0.010/call. |
| api starter | custom | - | $4.50 in usable credits, roughly 4,500 standard calls; expires after 30 days. |
| api pro | $15≈ $15 | - | $30 plan credit plus $10 bonus credit, roughly 40,000 standard calls/month. |
| api growth | $49≈ $49 | - | $120 plan credit plus $20 bonus credit, roughly 140,000 standard calls/month. |
| api scale | $99≈ $99 | - | $300 plan credit plus $50 bonus credit, roughly 350,000 standard calls/month. |
| api custom | custom | - | Custom prepaid volume and support. |
| monitoring starter | $19≈ $19 | - | Monitor up to 6 accounts; approximately 15-second polling. |
| monitoring growth | $59≈ $59 | - | Monitor up to 20 accounts; approximately 2-second fast-tier polling. |
| monitoring professional | $119≈ $119 | - | Monitor up to 50 accounts. |
| monitoring enterprise | $249≈ $249 | - | Monitor up to 150 accounts. |
| spaces pay as you go | custom | - | $0.05 per job plus $0.015 per transcript minute. |
Free tier$0.10 signup credit, roughly 100 standard calls or 2,000 returned tweets; no card; starter credit never expires
Billing termsmonthly subscriptions plus prepaid pay-as-you-go and one-time packs; no annual subscription price published
Additional costsRoute prices vary from $0.001 to $0.010 per call; Spaces has a separate job and transcript-minute charge; subscription rollover is lost when the plan lapses.
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Is it cheaper to build or buy GetXAPI?
Adjust the numbers: hours to build, your hourly rate, running costs and the subscription price.
Over 24 months, subscribing is cheaper.
Starting hours estimated from the analysis (one weekend). Does not price what you give up (support, integrations, security).
Can I rebuild GetXAPI?
Kinda. The core of GetXAPI is buildable in a weekend with the prompt on this page, but there are real gaps: reliability: every X change is your outage until you patch it, account safety: automation flags and burns the login it runs on. Read the honest list above before committing.
How much does GetXAPI cost?
GetXAPI costs about $15/mo (Pro, checked 10/20/2026), which is $180 per year.
What do I lose by replacing GetXAPI?
Honestly: reliability: every X change is your outage until you patch it; account safety: automation flags and burns the login it runs on; write actions: posting and DMs from a scraper risk real bans; real-time push: no webhooks, you poll and you lag; scale: a few handles works, thousands is a different sport. If any of those are load-bearing for you, keep paying.
Is there an open-source alternative to GetXAPI?
Yes: twscrape (account-based X scraper, the standard DIY starting point), twitter-scraper (TypeScript X scraper, no official API). Using prior art is also vibecoding; the prompt is for when you want it exactly your way.