Access user timelines with one request.
Provide a user ID and receive a structured JSON array of recent tweets. Skip the overhead of browser rotation and session management.
How it works
One request, one response.
- 1
Submit user identifier
POST a request with the target userId and the desired limit of tweets to retrieve.
- 2
Traverse public timeline
The system fetches the most recent posts directly from the specified profile without requiring account authorization.
- 3
Receive structured data
Get a JSON response containing text, timestamps, media URLs, and interaction metadata for every tweet found.
Capabilities
What you get.
Everything this endpoint does, without running the infrastructure yourself.
Pagination support
Use the cursor parameter to navigate through historical posts beyond the initial response limit.
Metadata extraction
Captures not just the text but also interaction metrics and timestamps for each tweet.
Public profile access
Works on any publicly visible profile without requiring the target user to authorize your application.
Structured JSON output
Delivers clean objects that are ready for immediate ingestion into databases or frontend components.
Cost of ownership
Build it yourself, or call this.
Both are real options. Here is what each one actually costs you.
Run it yourself
- Manual browser automation maintenance
- Frequent updates to handle DOM selector changes
- Management of IP rotation and proxy pools
- High engineering overhead for data cleaning
Call the API
- Single POST request per query
- Consistent JSON schema regardless of UI changes
- Built-in handling of anti-scraping measures
- Pay-per-successful-call model
Integrate
Built for the language you use.
One HTTP endpoint. Copy the call in your language and go.
curl -X POST https://automatio.ai/api/v1/query \
-H "Authorization: Bearer $AUTOMATIO_API_KEY" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{ "tool": "twitter_user_tweets", "params": { "userId": "example", "limit": 10 } }'In production
What people build with it.
Competitive Intelligence
Monitor the social output of competitors by fetching their daily updates into a centralized dashboard. This allows for automated analysis of content strategy and posting frequency without manual monitoring.
Brand Sentiment Tracking
Pull recent tweets from a specific brand account to correlate their public activity with customer engagement levels. Use the interaction metrics to measure which types of posts generate the most traction.
Content Aggregation
Build live feeds of industry influencers for internal knowledge bases or community portals. The structured output allows you to display text and media correctly without manual copy-pasting.
Choosing parameters
Which options matter.
The table below lists what exists. These are the calls worth making deliberately.
- userId
- limit
- cursor
Alternatives
When to use something else.
A page that pretends it has no alternatives reads as an advert. These are the other real options.
Official Twitter API
Best for enterprise users who need official authorization and higher rate limits, though at a significantly higher price point and stricter approval process.
Browser Automation
A viable route for developers with no budget who can afford to spend time maintaining scrapers and managing proxy infrastructure.
Before you integrate
What it does not do.
The boundaries are as useful as the features. These are the ones worth knowing up front.
Public profiles only
Private accounts or accounts that have blocked the requester cannot be accessed via this endpoint.
Historical depth
The endpoint typically retrieves the most recent tweets; extremely old posts might not be accessible depending on the platform's current timeline limits.
Polling latency
This is a polling-based API rather than a streaming websocket, so there is a slight lag between a tweet being posted and it appearing in the results.
Reference
15 credits per call- Endpoint
- POST https://automatio.ai/api/v1/query
- Tool ID
- twitter_user_tweets
Parameters
| Name | Type | Required | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| userId | string | Twitter user ID (get from twitterGetUser first) | |
| limit | number | Max tweets to return (default: 20, max: 40) | |
| cursor | string | — | Pagination cursor from previous response (optional) |
The same endpoints are available over MCP, and the full machine-readable catalogue lives in the API documentation.
Frequently Asked Questions
Find answers to common questions about Twitter Timeline API
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