Best Way to Scrape Data from X (Twitter) Without Getting Blocked?

[Ehloom]

Hey everyone,

I’m working on a project where I need to scrape data from X (formerly Twitter) for tracking trends and analyzing public sentiment around certain topics. The challenge I’m facing is that X has become really strict with their anti-scraping measures, and I keep getting blocked by rate limits, CAPTCHAs, and IP bans after just a few requests. It’s slowing down my process, and I’m finding it hard to gather the data I need consistently.

I’ve already tried the basics—like rotating proxies and slowing down my requests—but it seems like X has really upped their game in detecting scraping bots. Even with proxies, they can somehow tell that I’m automating my activity, and it doesn’t take long before I hit a wall and get temporarily banned.

While looking for solutions, I stumbled upon something called Multilogin (https://multilogin.com/). It’s supposed to help bypass these detection systems by creating unique browser profiles with different fingerprints, so you don’t get flagged as a bot as easily. It also allows you to rotate IPs, and from what I’ve read, it’s designed to mimic real human behavior. This sounds like exactly what I need, but I haven’t used it before, so I’m curious to know if anyone here has had experience with it?

https://multilogin.com/

What I really want to know is: does Multilogin actually work as well as they say? Does it make it easier to scrape data from X without getting blocked? I don’t mind paying for a tool if it can actually help me get around the rate limits and avoid triggering CAPTCHAs every time I try to scrape a few dozen tweets.

If anyone has tried Multilogin or has other strategies that work well for scraping X, I’d really appreciate any insights. I’m also open to hearing about any alternative tools or methods that can help with scraping data at scale, while minimizing the risk of getting banned.

Looking forward to hearing your thoughts and advice. Thanks in advance!

 

[Proxy Cake]

You'll need to use a version of selenium that isn't detected as selenium. That plus rotating residential proxies you should be ok

 

[imccafey]

Have decent rotating residential IPs on top of an anti-detection browser and you would get very far scraping data off of most social media sites. Avoid VPNs at all costs and maybe have a custom tool for the actual scraping process.

 

[LilMosey]

Twitter last year implemented stricter Rate Limit rules, which means that each account can only do so many actions in X period of time.

Using anti-detect browser, rotating proxy or vpn will not help as the limits are set to your X account (ID). What you can do however is to make multiple accounts, and once you hit Rate limit on one account, switch to the next one and repeat the process. Additionally, you can also buy Twitter Premium and get higher limit but this is not a reasonable solution.

In the end, with Premium you'll be able to scrape maybe 200-300 Tweets in one go, and with normal account maybe ~100. I tested to auto-scroll through my Timeline with normal account and after roughly 20 seconds, the blue "Try again" button popped up.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1675187969420828672

https://twitter.com/x/status/1675214274627530754

https://twitter.com/x/status/1680370980575670273

If you want to scrape Twitter nowadays, you must do it really slow. I run my own Selenium bot and do about 5000-10000 actions per day, with about ~100 replies per 24h. It works well but between each action there is at least 15s timeout to avoid repeatedly calling the Twitter API too frequently.

 

[Ehloom]

Here is the website I was suggesting,
http://multilogin.com

 

[proxygo]

Here is the website I was suggesting,
Multilogin

nice little promo there well done ,

 

[jsandi99]

Twitter last year implemented stricter Rate Limit rules, which means that each account can only do so many actions in X period of time.

Using anti-detect browser, rotating proxy or vpn will not help as the limits are set to your X account (ID). What you can do however is to make multiple accounts, and once you hit Rate limit on one account, switch to the next one and repeat the process. Additionally, you can also buy Twitter Premium and get higher limit but this is not a reasonable solution.

In the end, with Premium you'll be able to scrape maybe 200-300 Tweets in one go, and with normal account maybe ~100. I tested to auto-scroll through my Timeline with normal account and after roughly 20 seconds, the blue "Try again" button popped up.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1675187969420828672

https://twitter.com/x/status/1675214274627530754

https://twitter.com/x/status/1680370980575670273

If you want to scrape Twitter nowadays, you must do it really slow. I run my own Selenium bot and do about 5000-10000 actions per day, with about ~100 replies per 24h. It works well but between each action there is at least 15s timeout to avoid repeatedly calling the Twitter API too frequently.

Do you use any kind of proxy for it or do you do it with your own IP?
I'm starting to do some scraping and I'm scared of getting IP banned so, is it a big deal or if I stay between the rate limits it will be fine?

 

[LilMosey]

Do you use any kind of proxy for it or do you do it with your own IP?
I'm starting to do some scraping and I'm scared of getting IP banned so, is it a big deal or if I stay between the rate limits it will be fine?

Well on my accounts I use Proxies, yes. But I'm not Scraping Twitter so i'm the wrong guy to ask about that. You shouldn't get IP banned but only limited for some period of time.