How to scrape Twitter/X without paying for the $42K API
In 2023 Elon Musk locked the Twitter API behind a $42,000/year enterprise tier — making it effectively unavailable for SMB use. Every B2B sales team, growth marketer and journalist hit a wall.
Kavex scrapes the same public profile + tweet data via the X.com HTML surface. No API key, no $42K.
What you can extract
Per profile: display name, bio, location, website, joined date, follower/following count, verified status, profile photo. Plus the last N tweets.
Per tweet
Tweet ID, URL, author handle + name, full text, publish time, reply/retweet/like/view counts.
Anti-bot strategy
X has one of the most aggressive bot-detection stacks on the open web. Kavex uses stealth Playwright + rotating DataImpulse residential proxies + sticky session per job. 1 credit ($0.001) per tweet.
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