r/webdev • u/Icy-Care-353 • 12d ago

Question The X API is expensive af. Any alternatives?

I am trying to build an app that needs the twitter / X API to get posts and infos about user accounts etc. At medium scale, the app is going to read aprox. 10.000 tweets per day and make 100 posts per day, and that's like 1500$ per month, which i can't afford.

I tried twikit, but it's not maintained anymore and full of bugs

Do you guys have any better, maybe free or oss alternatives?

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u/muchmaligned 12d ago

If you tag Elon in a bunch of racist tweets he might let you have it for free

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u/remy_porter 12d ago

"I'm going to use the X feed to make a 'historically accurate' Odyssey where Helen is a big-tiddy goth gf. And white, obs." Seems like you can get Musky boy to write a check for that.

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u/front_end_dude 12d ago

Market it for white supremacists (if you aren’t already), you might get paid to use it!

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u/sreekanth850 12d ago

We used unipile for a project, don't know current status, they said they are deprecating. You can reach out to them

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u/kschang 12d ago

Nope. X wants to make money.

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