{"id":38258,"date":"2026-01-22T14:27:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-22T13:27:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/best-way-to-pull-twitter-x-data-at-scale-without-getting-rate-limited-to-death\/"},"modified":"2026-01-22T14:27:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T13:27:07","slug":"best-way-to-pull-twitter-x-data-at-scale-without-getting-rate-limited-to-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/best-way-to-pull-twitter-x-data-at-scale-without-getting-rate-limited-to-death\/","title":{"rendered":"Best Way To Pull Twitter\/X Data At Scale Without Getting Rate Limited To Death?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!-- SC_OFF --><\/p>\n<div class=\"md\">\n<p>Been trying to build a dataset of tweets for a research project (analyzing discourse patterns around specific topics) and the official X API is basically unusable unless you want to drop $5k+\/month for reasonable limits.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve tried a few different approaches:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Official API \u2192 rate limits killed me immediately<\/li>\n<li>Manual scraping \u2192 got my IP banned within a day<\/li>\n<li>Some random npm packages \u2192 half of them are broken now<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Found a breakdown comparing different methods and it actually explained why most DIY scrapers fail (anti-bot stuff has gotten way more aggressive lately). Makes sense why so many tools just stopped working after Elon&#8217;s changes.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone here working with Twitter data regularly? What&#8217;s actually reliable right now? Need something that can pull ~50k tweets\/day without constant babysitting.<\/p>\n<p>Not trying to do anything shady &#8211; just need public tweet text, timestamps, and basic engagement metrics for academic analysis.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><!-- SC_ON -->   submitted by   <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/user\/Technical_Fee4829\"> \/u\/Technical_Fee4829 <\/a> <br \/> <span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/datasets\/comments\/1qju57e\/best_way_to_pull_twitterx_data_at_scale_without\/\">[link]<\/a><\/span>   <span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/datasets\/comments\/1qju57e\/best_way_to_pull_twitterx_data_at_scale_without\/\">[comments]<\/a><\/span><\/p><div class='watch-action'><div class='watch-position align-right'><div class='action-like'><a class='lbg-style1 like-38258 jlk' href='javascript:void(0)' data-task='like' data-post_id='38258' data-nonce='9941108d62' rel='nofollow'><img class='wti-pixel' src='https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/wp-content\/plugins\/wti-like-post\/images\/pixel.gif' title='Like' \/><span class='lc-38258 lc'>0<\/span><\/a><\/div><\/div> <div class='status-38258 status align-right'><\/div><\/div><div class='wti-clear'><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Been trying to build a dataset of tweets for a research project (analyzing discourse patterns around specific&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[85],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38258","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-datatards","wpcat-85-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38258","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38258"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38258\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}