Twitter Followers API
The GetXAPI Twitter/X followers API gets and exports any public account's followers and following as structured JSON at $0.05 per 1,000. Pull the full follower list with cursor pagination, filter to verified followers, or check a follow relationship, with no developer account and no rate limits.
What you can pull, and where each lives
Followers are not one endpoint. GetXAPI maps each relationship you might need to a dedicated endpoint, all on the same Bearer key and the same flat $0.001 per call. Get a full follower list, the accounts a user follows, just the verified followers, your mutuals, or a single follow check.
| What you pull | Endpoint | Per page | Docs |
|---|---|---|---|
| Followers (full list) | GET /twitter/user/followers | ~200 per page | View docs |
| Followers v2 (richer fields) | GET /twitter/user/followers_v2 | ~70 per page | View docs |
| Verified followers only | GET /twitter/user/verified_followers | ~70 per page | View docs |
| Following (who they follow) | GET /twitter/user/following | ~200 per page | View docs |
| Mutuals (followers you know) | POST /twitter/user/followers_you_know | Paged | View docs |
| Check a follow relationship | GET /twitter/user/check_follow_relationship | Single result | View docs |
Every one of these is billed at the same flat $0.001 per call, so cost scales with how much you pull, not with which relationship you ask for.
Export a full follower list with cursor pagination
The followers endpoint lives at GET /twitter/user/followers. Pass the userName you want and read the followers array. To get the whole list, omit cursor on the first call, then pass the returned next_cursor back on each call and loop until has_more is false. Each call is $0.001 and v1 returns about 200 followers.
Get the first page of followers
curl -H "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_API_KEY" \
"https://api.getxapi.com/twitter/user/followers?userName=elonmusk"The response is structured JSON with a next_cursor and has_more on every page, so there is no HTML to parse and no proxy to rotate. Read the followers endpoint docs.
followers vs followers_v2: which to use
| Version | Page size | Fields | Best for |
|---|---|---|---|
| followers (v1) | ~200 per page | Core profile fields per follower | Exporting a full follower list fast and cheap |
| followers_v2 | ~70 per page | Richer per-follower profile payload | When you need more detail per record and fewer total pages matter less |
Both page through the same full list with a cursor. v1 returns more records per call, so it walks a large list in fewer requests; v2 trades page size for a richer payload on each follower. The same v1 and v2 split applies to the following endpoint.
GetXAPI followers vs the official X API and scraping
| Option | Price | Auth | Limits | Full export |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| GetXAPI | $0.05 / 1,000 followers | Bearer token, 30s signup | No rate limits | Cursor pagination to the full list |
| Official X API followers | Gated, enterprise pricing | X developer account, app approval | Followers lookup is restricted on lower tiers | Capped windows, hard tier ceilings |
| Browser scraping the followers tab | $0 plus your proxy and compute | Session cookies or tokens | IP bans within hours of a high-volume run | Breaks on every X change, partial pulls |
Pricing, plain and flat
$0.05
per 1,000 followers exported
$0.10
free credits at signup, no card
$0
subscription, you pay per call only
Every call is $0.001, and v1 returns about 200 followers, so 1,000 followers lands near $0.05. See the full breakdown on the Twitter API pricing page or estimate your monthly spend with the Twitter API cost calculator.
If you need more than followers
Followers are one slice of the account graph. For timelines, tweets, and profiles, the broader Twitter scraper covers the wider surface on the same key. To search tweets by query, use the Twitter search API, and to wire followers into an AI agent, use the MCP server.
Twitter followers API FAQ
Call GET /twitter/user/followers with the userName of the account you want, and read the followers array from the JSON response. To export the full list, omit the cursor on the first call, then pass the next_cursor value back on each following call and keep going until has_more comes back false. Each call is $0.001 and the v1 endpoint returns about 200 followers per page, so exporting 1,000 followers costs roughly $0.05. The result is structured JSON you can write straight to CSV or a database.
GetXAPI charges $0.001 per call. The v1 followers endpoint returns about 200 followers per call, so 1,000 followers costs roughly $0.05. There is no subscription and no minimum. The official X API gates follower lookups behind paid developer tiers with restricted access on lower plans, so GetXAPI is the cheapest managed path to export a follower list at volume.
Omit the cursor parameter on your first request to get page one. Each response includes a next_cursor token and a has_more flag. Pass next_cursor back in the cursor parameter on your next request to fetch the following page, and repeat the loop until has_more is false. That walks the entire follower list without holding any state on the server side. The same pattern works for following, verified followers, and mutuals.
Yes. GET /twitter/user/check_follow_relationship returns the follow relationship between two accounts in a single call, so you can confirm whether one user follows another without paging an entire list. For shared connections, POST /twitter/user/followers_you_know returns the followers you know in common, which is the mutuals view.
You do not need an X developer account or the official OAuth flow. You do need a GetXAPI key, which is a single Bearer token you copy after a 30-second signup. That key authenticates every followers and following request. There is no app review and no waiting period, so you can pull your first follower list in under a minute. You start with $0.10 in free credits, no card required.
The v1 followers endpoint returns about 200 followers per page, and followers_v2 returns about 70 per page with a richer profile payload per record. Both page through the full list with a cursor. Use v1 when you want the cheapest, fastest export of a large list, and v2 when you need more detail on each follower and are willing to make more calls to walk the same list.
Yes. Use GET /twitter/user/verified_followers to pull just the verified followers of an account, and GET /twitter/user/following (or following_v2) to pull the accounts that user follows. Both run on the same Bearer key and the same flat $0.001 per call, and both page with the same cursor pattern as the followers endpoint.
Export followers without an X account
$0.05 per 1,000 followers. $0.10 free credits. Cursor pagination, no developer account, no rate limits.
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