Twitter/X API for Public Data — Pay Per Result | SocialData

# SocialData API > SocialData is a REST API and MCP server for X (formerly Twitter) data: tweets, search, user profiles, followers, lists, communities, Spaces, and webhook monitors. You need no X developer account, no proxies, and no HTML parsing. Billing is pay-as-you-go from a prepaid balance, at a flat rate per item returned. There are no subscription plans. Base URL: `https://api.socialdata.tools` Auth: `Authorization: Bearer YOUR_API_KEY` on every request. Get a key at https://socialdata.tools/app/api-keys MCP endpoint: `https://api.socialdata.tools/mcp` (HTTP transport, same API key, read-only, 14 tools) OpenAPI 3.0 spec: https://socialdata.tools/openapi.yaml (every endpoint, parameter, and response schema) ```bash curl "https://api.socialdata.tools/twitter/search?query=from%3Aelonmusk&type=Latest" \ -H "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_API_KEY" \ -H "Accept: application/json" ``` ```bash claude mcp add --transport http socialdata https://api.socialdata.tools/mcp \ --header "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_API_KEY" ``` Price (charged per item returned, not per request): | What you fetch | Price | | --- | --- | | Tweets, profiles, followers, list and community items | $0.0002 each ($0.20 per 1,000) | | Single-object lookups (one tweet, one list, one community, one Space, one profile) | $0.0002 per request | | Extended bio | $0.001 per request | | Social Actions: verify following | $0.004 per request | | Social Actions: verify retweeted, verify commented | $0.008 per request | Notes that agents get wrong: - Rate limit: 120 requests per minute, shared across all endpoints, per API key. Write to support@socialdata.tools for a higher limit at no extra charge. - Balance: the account must hold a positive balance. An empty balance returns `HTTP 402`. - Billing: only successful requests that return data are billed. A request that returns nothing is free, but only for the first 3 such requests per minute; after that each one costs $0.0002. - Pagination: cursor

openapi: 3.0.0 info: title: SocialData API Reference description: |- SocialData API is a scalable and reliable API that simplifies the process of fetching data from Twitter/X. With SocialData API, you can easily retrieve tweets, user profiles, user followers/following and other information without the need for proxies or parsing Twitter responses. termsOfService: https://socialdata.tools/legal/terms-and-conditions contact: email: support@socialdata.tools version: 1.0.0 external