How to Download Twitter (X) Spaces as MP3 or a Transcript

You can download a Twitter (X) Space as long as the host recorded it. The host can save their own recordings from X's data download tool. Anyone else can save a recorded Space with a downloader such as yt-dlp, or with an API that returns the MP3 and a timestamped transcript. Unrecorded Spaces cannot be downloaded at all.

Last updated November 5, 2026. X's recording rules were re-verified against the X Help Center on that date, and the API timings come from our own test the same day.

How do you download a Twitter Space?

To download Twitter Spaces, first check that the Space was recorded: a recorded Space shows a replay you can play after it ends. If you are the host, request your data from X's download tool, which includes your recorded Spaces. If you are not the host, paste the Space link into a downloader or send it to a Spaces download API, which returns an MP3 and, if you ask, a timestamped transcript. A Space that was never recorded has no replay, so no tool can save it.

Can you download a Space you didn't host?

Yes, when it was recorded. A recorded Space is replayable by anyone, so any downloader can save that replay.

Can you download a live Space?

GetXAPI's docs list running Spaces as downloadable as well as ended ones with a replay. We tested ended Spaces only.

Is there a free way?

Yes. The host's data download and yt-dlp are both free. An API trades a small fee for no setup and a transcript.

Which Twitter Spaces can be downloaded?

X's Help Center is clear on the rule: hosts choose to record a Space before it starts, and hosts can download copies of their recorded Spaces for as long as X keeps them. For unrecorded Spaces, X keeps the audio for 30 days only to review rule violations (120 days if a violation is found). That audio is never offered to listeners.

The same rules apply when you download X Spaces, as they are now called. So before you try any tool, open the Space link. If it plays a replay, it can be downloaded. If it says the Space has ended with no replay, nothing can.

Before you queue a job, the Space info endpoint tells you whether a Space can be saved: downloadable: true with stream_type: "replay" means a recording exists. We called it 40 times across four recorded Spaces on November 5, 2026, including one that had ended the evening before, and it answered true every time.

Only recorded Spaces can be downloaded. The host can use X's data download; anyone else needs a downloader or an API.

Download Twitter Spaces recordings as MP3 with an API

The Download Space endpoint runs as a job: you queue it, get a job_id, and poll until the files are ready.

curl -X POST "https://api.getxapi.com/twitter/spaces/download" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{ "space_url": "https://x.com/i/spaces/1YGNrbnLljQGw", "transcribe": false }'

# then poll (free) until status is "done"
curl "https://api.getxapi.com/twitter/spaces/download/spc_8f1040349eb446038462fdb2dfbfef50" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_API_KEY"

When the status reaches done, the response carries mp3_url (plus transcript_url and transcript_json_url for a transcript). We ran this on November 5, 2026, on a 58-minute recorded Space:

A download is a job: queue it, poll it for free, and collect the MP3 and transcript files when it reaches done.

Each download costs $0.05, plus $0.015 per minute of audio when you ask for a transcript, so a one-hour Space with a transcript is $0.95 (full table on the pricing page). Polling is free, rate limited to 30 requests a minute. Files stay up for 7 days.

How to get a Twitter Space transcript

Set "transcribe": true on the same request. The text file reads like this:

[00:10:08 → 00:10:12]  essentially taking, if you own these AI credits
[00:10:12 → 00:10:16]  and are also using them as your daily driver,

The JSON version holds a segments array with start, end and text for each line, plus the full text, which is the form to feed into search, summaries or an LLM.

One thing to check: many Spaces open with music or silence while the host waits for listeners. In our test, a Space with a ten-minute intro produced a single stray line before the speakers started, and everything after the first speech was accurate English. Glance at the first segment or two before you index the text.

Twitter Spaces downloaders compared

To find Spaces worth saving, search posts with the filter:spaces operator from the advanced search operators guide. For one Space, a web downloader or yt-dlp is enough. For many Spaces, transcripts, or a pipeline that archives a show every week, the API is the one built for it. The same key also reads tweets and profiles.

Why a Twitter Space won't download

It was never recorded. No replay exists, so every tool fails. With the API, the job fails or the request returns 422 at queue time.

The Space is not downloadable. If the Space info endpoint returns downloadable: false, there is no replay to save, usually because the host never recorded it.

The link is not a Space. Use the x.com/i/spaces/... link, not the link of a post that shares it.

To try the API on your own Spaces, sign up and use the free signup credit on a short one first.