Get an account's X posts with Python, Node.js and cURL

Read an X account's latest posts, newest first, by username.

It is one call to GET /v1/x/users/{user}/posts, which costs 1 credit a request, plus 2 per profile and 1 per post. Every snippet below ran against the live API on 27 October 2026, and the output is what the Python printed.

Set your key first. Create one at https://weirapp.io/dashboard/keys; every account gets 5,000 free credits a month.

export WEIR_API_KEY=weir_live_...

Python

import os

import requests

response = requests.get(
    "https://api.weirapp.io/v1/x/users/NASA/posts",
    headers={"Authorization": f"Bearer {os.environ['WEIR_API_KEY']}"},
    params={"limit": 5},
    timeout=60,
)
response.raise_for_status()
page = response.json()

for post in page["data"]:
    print(post["createdAt"], post["likeCount"], post["url"])
print("credits charged:", response.headers["X-Credits-Charged"])

Node.js

// Node.js 18 or later, as an ES module (save as example.mjs).
const response = await fetch("https://api.weirapp.io/v1/x/users/NASA/posts?limit=5", {
  headers: { Authorization: `Bearer ${process.env.WEIR_API_KEY}` },
});
if (!response.ok) throw new Error(`${response.status}: ${await response.text()}`);
const page = await response.json();

for (const post of page.data) console.log(post.createdAt, post.likeCount, post.url);
console.log("credits charged:", response.headers.get("x-credits-charged"));

cURL

curl --request GET \
  --url 'https://api.weirapp.io/v1/x/users/NASA/posts?limit=5' \
  --header "Authorization: Bearer $WEIR_API_KEY"

Output

2026-10-23T23:37:56.000Z 7775 https://x.com/NASA/status/2113776971603689874
2026-10-26T19:29:09.000Z 4086 https://x.com/NASA/status/2114801524358406570
2026-10-25T22:30:00.000Z 7539 https://x.com/NASA/status/2114484649430798432
2026-10-25T21:04:02.000Z 0 https://x.com/NASA/status/2114463017043624059
2026-10-25T19:18:58.000Z 0 https://x.com/NASA/status/2114436576789082161
credits charged: 8

The next page

A page ends with meta.nextCursor. Send it back as cursor, with every other parameter unchanged, until it is null. Each page is its own request and is charged as one.

import os

import requests

headers = {"Authorization": f"Bearer {os.environ['WEIR_API_KEY']}"}
cursor = None
for number in range(1, 3):  # two pages; each page is its own charged request
    response = requests.get(
        "https://api.weirapp.io/v1/x/users/NASA/posts",
        headers=headers,
        params={"limit": 5, **({"cursor": cursor} if cursor else {})},
        timeout=60,
    )
    response.raise_for_status()
    page = response.json()
    print(f"page {number}: {len(page['data'])} posts, {response.headers['X-Credits-Charged']} credits")
    cursor = page["meta"]["nextCursor"]
    if not cursor:  # null means there is nothing more
        break

page 1: 5 posts, 8 credits
page 2: 5 posts, 6 credits

If a call fails

Failed calls are free. A 429 means too many requests a minute: wait the seconds in Retry-After and send it again. A 402 means the account is out of credits. A 503 means the source is busy and is safe to retry. Every code is on Errors, and paging is on Pagination.