# X (Twitter) Search API (twitter.search)

- Canonical page: https://everyinfra.com/en/twitter-api/search
- Endpoint: POST https://api.everyinfra.com/api/v1/social with {"platform": "twitter", "action": "search", "params": {...}}
- Price: $0.000792 per call ($0.79 per 1,000 requests); failed calls and empty results are not charged
- Returns: list, default 25, max 200 per call
- Mode: sync; add "mode": "async" for slow tasks

## Health

- Live health (24h percent, hourly and daily trends): https://api.everyinfra.com/api/v1/social/availability?platform=twitter&action=search

## Parameters

| name | type | required | default | description |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| keyword | not declared | yes | not declared | X post query string; it may include platform search operators such as from: or since:. For ordering, see sort. |
| sort | not declared | no | not declared | Ordering preference. latest asks for the newest posts first; X returns Top results by default, and latest does not guarantee strictly chronological results. |
| limit | integer (1–200) | no | 25 | The most rows to return in this call, an integer from 1 to 200. The default applies when you leave it out, and a call can return fewer rows. Larger values return 422 before any charge. |

## Response fields (items in `results`)

| field | meaning |
|---|---|
| id | The record's unique ID on the platform. Unique only within one platform; IDs can repeat across platforms. |
| url | Link to the record on the platform. |
| text | Body text with HTML removed, returned in full and never cut short (on a few platforms the list results themselves carry only an excerpt; the platform's field notes say so). |
| like_count | Likes. null means the platform or this capability does not disclose it; it is not 0. |
| retweet_count | platform-native meaning |
| reply_count | Replies, usually replies to a comment. null means not disclosed. |
| view_count | Views or plays. null means not disclosed, not 0. |
| posted_at | Publish time in ISO 8601, UTC (for example 2026-08-07T12:34:56+00:00). Non-standard strings from the platform are passed through as is, so parse defensively. null means the platform does not disclose it. |
| author_username | Author's username (@handle), usually usable in URLs. |
| author_name | Author's display name. |
| author_url | Link to the author's profile on the platform. |
| author_follower_count | Author's follower count. null means not disclosed. |
| quote_count | platform-native meaning |
| bookmark_count | platform-native meaning |
| language | Content language code (for example zh, en) as judged by the platform; it can be wrong. |
| conversation_id | platform-native meaning |
| is_reply | platform-native meaning |
| is_quote | platform-native meaning |
| is_repost | platform-native meaning |
| is_pinned | platform-native meaning |
| reply_to_id | platform-native meaning |
| reply_to_user_id | platform-native meaning |
| reply_to | platform-native meaning |
| source | platform-native meaning |
| media | platform-native meaning |
| hashtags | Hashtags in the text, in order of appearance; absent when there are none. |
| mentions | platform-native meaning |
| links | platform-native meaning |
| author_id | Author's unique ID on the platform. |
| author_avatar_url | platform-native meaning |
| author_bio | platform-native meaning |
| author_is_verified | platform-native meaning |
| author_following_count | platform-native meaning |
| author_post_count | platform-native meaning |
| author_media_count | platform-native meaning |
| author_created_at | platform-native meaning |
| author_banner_url | platform-native meaning |
| platform | Source platform identifier, the same as platform in the request (for example xiaohongshu, tiktok). |

## Example

```bash
curl -X POST 'https://api.everyinfra.com/api/v1/social' \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $EVERYINFRA_API_KEY" \
  -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  --data-raw '{
  "platform": "twitter",
  "action": "search",
  "params": {
    "keyword": "open source"
  }
}'
```

```python
import os
import requests

response = requests.post(
    "https://api.everyinfra.com/api/v1/social",
    headers={"Authorization": f"Bearer {os.environ['EVERYINFRA_API_KEY']}"},
    json={
        "platform": "twitter",
        "action": "search",
        "params": {
            "keyword": "open source",
        },
    },
    timeout=120,
)
print(response.status_code)
print(response.json())
```

## Response example

Real response to the example request above, captured 2026-09-26T08:56:04Z. `results` and `count` are real with personal information (names, handles, avatars, profile links, contact details) removed; the list keeps the first 2 of 39. `id`, `billing` and `quota` differ on every call, so only their shape is shown.

```text
{
  "id": "req_…",
  "platform": "twitter",
  "action": "search",
  "results": [
    {
      "id": "•••",
      "url": "https://x.com/steipete/status/2103491173927272531",
      "text": "Microsoft shipped a really compelling product on top of @••• today. We worked with them since March to make the codebase ready for large-scale deployments, they are a great partner and open-source contributor. 🙏🦞",
      "like_count": 2605,
      "retweet_count": 217,
      "reply_count": 131,
      "view_count": 383868,
      "posted_at": "Fri Sep 25 14:25:51 +0000 2026",
      "author_username": "•••",
      "author_name": "•••",
      "author_url": "https://x.com/•••",
      "author_follower_count": 592294,
      "platform": "twitter"
    },
    {
      "id": "•••",
      "url": "https://x.com/muellerberndt/status/2103069347724116201",
      "text": "I put a Cadence patchnet into a virtual fruit fly. This creates an actual fly matrix in your browser that the fly experiences as a solid world (observation is substrate-independent). All open-source, Github link on the page.\n\nhttps://t.co/vImD21Si1x https://t.co/WAY3aIwq4v",
      "like_count": 3837,
      "retweet_count": 270,
      "reply_count": 80,
      "view_count": 2622193,
      "posted_at": "Thu Sep 24 10:29:40 +0000 2026",
      "author_username": "•••",
      "author_name": "•••",
      "author_url": "https://x.com/•••",
      "author_follower_count": 28591,
      "platform": "twitter"
    }
  ],
  "count": 39,
  "billing": {
    "charged": …,
    "charged_usd": …,
    "balance_after_usd": …,
    …
  },
  "quota": { … }
}
```

## Also

- Capability catalog (no key): https://api.everyinfra.com/api/v1/social/catalog?platform=twitter
- OpenAPI: https://everyinfra.com/openapi.json · Agents guide: https://everyinfra.com/agents.md