TwitterAPIs

@twitterapis/mcp

Official Model Context Protocol server for twitterapis.com, the Twitter / X API as native tools for Claude, Cursor, Windsurf, and any MCP client. Reads (search, profiles, timelines, followers, DMs) plus write actions (post, like, retweet, follow).

Ask your agent to search tweets, pull a user's profile or timeline, list followers/following, fetch thread context, or enumerate list members and it calls the API directly. Every tool maps to a REST endpoint at https://api.twitterapis.com; the server holds no state and forwards your API key on each call.

Quick start

No install needed. Run with npx. You need one thing: an API key (free $0.50 in credits, no card required): twitterapis.com/signup.

Setup

Claude Desktop

Edit claude_desktop_config.json (Settings → Developer → Edit Config):

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "twitterapis": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": ["-y", "@twitterapis/mcp@latest"],
      "env": { "TWITTERAPIS_KEY": "YOUR_API_KEY" }
    }
  }
}

Restart Claude Desktop. The twitter_* tools appear in the tool picker.

Cursor

~/.cursor/mcp.json (or Settings → MCP → Add New Server):

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "twitterapis": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": ["-y", "@twitterapis/mcp@latest"],
      "env": { "TWITTERAPIS_KEY": "YOUR_API_KEY" }
    }
  }
}

Windsurf

~/.codeium/windsurf/mcp_config.json:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "twitterapis": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": ["-y", "@twitterapis/mcp@latest"],
      "env": { "TWITTERAPIS_KEY": "YOUR_API_KEY" }
    }
  }
}

VS Code (Copilot / agent mode)

.vscode/mcp.json in your workspace, or the user-level MCP settings:

{
  "servers": {
    "twitterapis": {
      "type": "stdio",
      "command": "npx",
      "args": ["-y", "@twitterapis/mcp@latest"],
      "env": { "TWITTERAPIS_KEY": "YOUR_API_KEY" }
    }
  }
}

Configuration

Env var	Required	Default	Purpose
TWITTERAPIS_KEY	Yes	(none)	API key from dashboard
TWITTERAPIS_BASE_URL	No	https://api.twitterapis.com	Override the API host
TWITTERAPIS_TIMEOUT_MS	No	30000	Per-request timeout in milliseconds

Tools

96 tools: 61 reads and 35 write actions. Most user endpoints accept username (handle without @) or user_id (twitter_user_likes and twitter_user_tweets_complete require user_id); tweet endpoints accept id or url; paginated endpoints return a cursor you pass back to get the next page. Two of the reads are free account/billing lookups (twitter_account_me, twitter_account_payments); the 14 monitoring tools are also free (account administration, not metered reads).

Public reads (search, profiles, tweets, followers, likes) work with just your API key. The account-only reads (bookmarks, DMs, home timeline, followers-you-know) and most write actions act AS an authenticated X account, so they need a session linked to your key first (returns HTTP 409 until then). Link a session either by registering your x.com cookies (twitter_customer_session) or by logging in with a username/password (twitter_user_login). Alternatively, pass per-call inline credentials on any of those tools (auth_token + ct0, with optional proxy_url / user_agent) to act AS that account for a single call without pre-registering a session, so one API key can act as many accounts. For write actions, set proxy_url to a residential proxy, since X soft-blocks writes that egress from datacenter IPs. Each write tool is annotated readOnlyHint: false; reversing actions (delete, unfollow, unlike, unretweet, unbookmark, monitor/webhook delete) are annotated destructiveHint: true so MCP clients can prompt before running them. The monitoring tools (see below) are the one exception: they administer your twitterapis.com account, not an X session, so they need only your API key, no linked session and no inline credentials.

Reads

Tool	What it does
twitter_advanced_search	Search tweets with X operators (from:, min_faves:, since:, filter:links, etc.)
twitter_user_search	Find user accounts by name or keyword
twitter_user_info	Full profile by handle (bio, counts, verification, location)
twitter_user_info_by_id	Full profile by numeric user id
twitter_user_status	Is an account alive, suspended, or deleted
twitter_user_about	A user's structured About object (category, professional/business labels, verification + identity-verification flags, joined date, and X's 'About this account' transparency panel)
twitter_user_affiliates	Accounts affiliated with an organization profile
twitter_check_follow_relationship	Follow relationship between two user ids (who follows whom)
twitter_user_tweets	A user's recent original tweets (replies excluded)
twitter_user_tweets_and_replies	A user's full timeline (tweets + replies)
twitter_user_tweets_complete	A user's near-complete tweet history in one auto-paginated call
twitter_user_media	Images and videos a user has posted
twitter_user_mentions	Recent public tweets mentioning a user
twitter_user_likes	Tweets a user has liked (public Likes tab)
twitter_user_followers	Accounts that follow a user
twitter_user_following	Accounts a user follows
twitter_user_followers_v2	Followers with the v2 response shape (richer fields, deeper cursoring)
twitter_user_following_v2	Following with the v2 response shape (richer fields, deeper cursoring)
twitter_user_verified_followers	A user's verified followers only
twitter_followers_you_know	Followers of a target that your authenticated account also follows
twitter_tweet_detail	Single tweet: text, author, metrics, media, quoted/reply context
twitter_tweet_replies	Replies to a tweet
twitter_tweet_thread	Full author thread (connected tweet chain by same author)
twitter_tweet_retweeters	Accounts that retweeted a tweet
twitter_tweet_quotes	Tweets that quote a tweet, with their text. Search-backed, so count is what search returned, not the tweet's true quote_count
twitter_list_members	Members of a Twitter/X List
twitter_list_followers	Accounts that follow a public List (a different set from its members)
twitter_list_tweets	Posts by a List's members, search-backed: filterable by since / until date, include_replies, and product (Latest / Top), no retweets
twitter_list_timeline	A List's native X feed: retweets and X's own ordering included, no filters, paging only
twitter_home_timeline	Your authenticated account's Home timeline (session)
twitter_bookmarks	Your authenticated account's bookmarks (session)
twitter_blocking	Accounts your authenticated account has blocked (your own list only) (session)
twitter_muting	Accounts your authenticated account has muted (your own list only) (session)
twitter_bookmark_search	Full-text search within your bookmarks (session)
twitter_bookmark_folders	Your authenticated account's bookmark folders (session)
twitter_bookmark_folder_timeline	Tweets inside one of your bookmark folders, by folder_id (session)
twitter_dm_list	Your DM conversations (inbox), read-only (session)
twitter_dm_conversation	Messages in one DM conversation, read-only (session)
twitter_spaces_info	Metadata and participant roster for one X Space, live or ended (by Space id)
twitter_community_search	Find X Communities by keyword; the discovery step that produces the numeric id the rest of the community family needs
twitter_community_info	One X Community by numeric id: name, counts, join policy, rules, topic, banners, admin
twitter_community_about	A community's moderators and a member preview, each returned as a full user profile, not the reduced row _members/_moderators return
twitter_community_members	A community's member roster, each row carrying that member's Admin / Moderator / Member role
twitter_community_moderators	A community's moderators and admins, from its own upstream operation (not a filter over the roster)
twitter_community_tweets	A community's post timeline, with the pinned post returned as its own pinned field
twitter_community_memberships	The inverse lookup: every community a given numeric user_id belongs to
twitter_grok_chat	Ask X's own Grok, grounded in live X data, and get the answer plus the sources it cited
twitter_grok_config	Whether the authenticated account can use Grok, and which models it may pick
twitter_trends	Current top trends for a location (by country or woeid)
twitter_trends_locations	Every location X has trends for, each with its WOEID
twitter_account_me	Your twitterapis.com account: credits, usage, email (free)
twitter_account_payments	Your twitterapis.com payment history (free)
twitter_media_status	Processing state of an uploaded media_id; poll until succeeded before attaching video or GIF (session)
twitter_article_get	Read a published article's full content via its announcement tweet id/url (public, no session)
twitter_article_list	List your own articles, filtered by lifecycle (draft or published) (session)

Write actions (require a linked X session)

Tool	What it does
twitter_create_tweet	Post a tweet; set reply_to to reply or quote to quote-tweet
twitter_delete_tweet	Delete one of your tweets (irreversible)
twitter_favorite_tweet / twitter_unfavorite_tweet	Like / unlike a tweet
twitter_retweet / twitter_unretweet	Retweet / undo retweet
twitter_bookmark_tweet / twitter_unbookmark_tweet	Bookmark / remove bookmark
twitter_follow_user / twitter_unfollow_user	Follow / unfollow a user by id
twitter_dm_send	Send a Direct Message to a user by their numeric recipient_id
twitter_list_create	Create a Twitter/X List owned by your session (name, optional description / is_private)
twitter_list_add_member / twitter_list_remove_member	Add / remove one account on a List you own; member_count comes back as proof the write landed
twitter_media_upload	Upload a base64 image, returns a media_id for twitter_create_tweet

Articles (X's long-form "Notes" feature; writes require a linked X session)

Tool	What it does
twitter_article_create	Start a new draft article, returns its id
twitter_article_update_title	Set a draft or published article's title
twitter_article_update_cover_media	Attach an already-uploaded image as an article's cover (media_id from twitter_media_upload)
twitter_article_update_content	Replace a draft or published article's body (Draft.js content_state you build)
twitter_article_publish	Publish a draft, posting a real public announcement tweet (not fully reversible)
twitter_article_unpublish	Revert a published article to draft (leaves the announcement tweet up)
twitter_article_delete	Delete an article (draft: hard delete; published: unpublish + delete the announcement tweet), irreversible

See also twitter_article_get and twitter_article_list above.

Monitoring (webhook delivery of new posts; free, not metered)

Watch an X account for new posts and get them pushed to your own HTTPS endpoint, HMAC-signed, instead of polling. Register a webhook first, then create a monitor; every new post from a watched handle is delivered to every active webhook on your account (or a restricted subset via webhook_ids). Monitor/webhook CRUD is account administration, not a metered Twitter read, so every tool below is free.

Tool	What it does
twitter_monitor_create	Start watching an X account (handle) for new posts
twitter_monitor_list	List every monitor on your account
twitter_monitor_update	Pause/resume a monitor or change its webhook_ids restriction
twitter_monitor_delete	Stop and remove a monitor (irreversible)
twitter_monitor_health	One monitor's status, degradation flag, poll interval, cursor position
twitter_monitor_account_health	Account-wide rollup: service status, active/paused monitor counts, 24h delivery outcome counts, one call
twitter_monitor_deliveries	Recent delivery events across every monitor, with detection + delivery latency
twitter_x_user_stream_add_user	Compat drop-in for twitter_monitor_create using an x_user_stream-shaped envelope
twitter_x_user_stream_remove_user	Compat drop-in for twitter_monitor_delete using an x_user_stream-shaped envelope
twitter_x_user_stream_list_users	Compat drop-in for twitter_monitor_list using an x_user_stream-shaped envelope
twitter_monitor_webhook_create	Register an HTTPS delivery URL; returns the HMAC signing secret once
twitter_monitor_webhook_list	List every webhook registered on your account
twitter_monitor_webhook_delete	Soft-delete a webhook by id (irreversible from the caller's side)
twitter_monitor_webhook_test	Send one signed test event to a webhook right now, synchronously
twitter_monitor_webhook_redrive	Replay deliveries that dead-lettered while your endpoint was down, oldest first

Session setup

Link an X account to your key once, so the account-only reads and write actions act as it (or pass per-call auth_token/ct0 instead).

Tool	What it does
twitter_customer_session	Register your x.com session cookies (auth_token + ct0) against your key
twitter_customer_session_status	Read back the registered session without changing it: resolved account, live/dead status, timestamps, and which egress tier a write would use. Never returns the cookies. Free
twitter_customer_session_delete	Revoke that stored session, deleting your auth_token + ct0 from the service. Idempotent and free
twitter_user_login	Log in with username + password (+ totp_secret for 2FA); stores the session against your key. Returns a confirmation, never the cookies

Usage examples

Search for trending AI tweets

"Find the most popular tweets about AI agents posted this week"

The agent calls twitter_advanced_search with:

query: "AI agents min_faves:200 since:2024-01-01"
product: "Top"
count: 20

Pull a user's recent posts

"Get the last 10 tweets from @sama"

The agent calls twitter_user_tweets with:

username: "sama"
count: 10

Read a full thread

"Get the full thread for this tweet: https://x.com/karpathy/status/1849....."

The agent calls twitter_tweet_thread with:

url: "https://x.com/karpathy/status/1849....."

Paginate through followers

"List the first 100 followers of @openai, then the next 100"

First call, twitter_user_followers: { username: "openai", count: 100 } Second call, pass back the cursor from the first response: { username: "openai", count: 100, cursor: "<cursor from response>" }

Monitor brand mentions

"Show me recent tweets mentioning @twitterapis"

The agent calls twitter_user_mentions with:

username: "twitterapis"
count: 50

Troubleshooting

HTTP 401 (invalid or missing API key) Check that TWITTERAPIS_KEY is set correctly in your MCP client config and matches the key shown in your dashboard.

HTTP 402 (insufficient credits) Top up at twitterapis.com/dashboard. Your first $0.50 is free at signup.

HTTP 403 (access forbidden) The account or tweet may be private/protected, or your plan does not include this endpoint.

HTTP 404 (not found) The user, tweet, or list may have been deleted, suspended, or the id/handle is wrong.

HTTP 429 (rate limited) Wait a few seconds and retry. If you hit this frequently, add "TWITTERAPIS_TIMEOUT_MS": "60000" to your env config and space out bulk requests.

Request failed: timed out after 30000ms The default timeout is 30 s. For large paginated fetches set TWITTERAPIS_TIMEOUT_MS to a higher value (e.g. 60000).

Tools do not appear in Claude / Cursor Ensure npx is on your PATH and Node.js 18+ is installed (node --version). Check MCP client logs for startup errors.

Pricing

Calls are billed to your twitterapis.com account. Almost every endpoint is $0.0008/call: all reads (search, profiles, tweets, followers, likes) plus the simple write actions (like, retweet, bookmark, follow and their undos, delete). At the read rate that works out to $0.04 per 1,000 tweets, since each call returns about 20 tweets. The premium endpoints cost a little more: tweet creation, sending a DM (twitter_dm_send), and DM reads (twitter_dm_list, twitter_dm_conversation) at $0.0016/call, full tweet history (twitter_user_tweets_complete) at $0.0024/call, a full tweet thread (twitter_tweet_thread) and a Grok answer (twitter_grok_chat) at $0.004/call, and the article-editing writes (twitter_article_create, twitter_article_update_title, twitter_article_update_cover_media, twitter_article_update_content, twitter_article_publish, twitter_article_unpublish) at $0.0016/call (twitter_article_get, twitter_article_list, and twitter_article_delete stay at the standard $0.0008/call). Your first $0.50 is free. See twitterapis.com/pricing.

Links

• Docs: docs.twitterapis.com
• Dashboard / API keys: twitterapis.com/dashboard
• Pricing: twitterapis.com/pricing
• REST API base URL (call it directly, without MCP): https://api.twitterapis.com

FAQ

Do I need an X (Twitter) developer account? No. Get an API key at twitterapis.com/signup; there is no application or approval step.

Is it read-only? No. 61 read tools work with just your API key; 35 write actions (post, like, retweet, follow, DM, media upload, List create/add member/remove member, article create/edit/publish/delete, monitor/webhook create/update/delete) act as a linked X account or per-call inline credentials, except monitor/webhook CRUD, which is account administration and needs only your API key.

Which clients are supported? Claude Desktop, Cursor, Windsurf, and VS Code (Copilot agent mode), or any Model Context Protocol client.

How is it billed? Per request. New keys start with $0.50 in free credits, no card required. See pricing.

Does it store my key or data? No. The server holds no state and forwards your API key on each call.

Maintainers

src/tools.js is generated. Do not edit it. The catalog is built at build time from two committed inputs:

• test/openapi.snapshot.json, a vendored copy of the published OpenAPI spec, which supplies the structure: which endpoints exist, which parameters each accepts, whether a parameter is required, and its type.
• scripts/tools.overrides.mjs, hand-authored, which supplies everything the spec cannot express: the tool and argument descriptions a model reads to decide how to call a tool, the cross-field rules ("provide exactly one of username or user_id"), the per-call credential arguments that travel as x-* headers, and the write / destructive / JSON-body flags.

The spec is vendored on purpose. Nothing is fetched at install time or at server boot, so the published package is a fixed artifact rather than one that depends on a hostname still answering.

npm run openapi:refresh   # re-vendor the spec, prints the route diff
npm run build             # regenerate src/tools.js
npm test                  # gates, incl. "src/tools.js matches the generator"

npm test fails if src/tools.js was hand-edited or left stale, if the catalog and the live spec disagree, or if the tool list and this README disagree.

License

MIT