Tools and libraries


Official v1.1 tools and libraries

The X teams maintain a set of official libraries and SDKs, listed here. 

We also include a list of community-supported libraries lower on this page. 

JavaScript / Node.js

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Autohook

Get started with the Premium v1.1 Account Activity API

Python

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search-tweets-python

A client supporting v2, Premium v1.1 and Enterprise search

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Ruby

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search-tweets-ruby

A client supporting v2, Premium v1.1 and Enterprise search

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Additional official resources

The tools below can also be useful when working with the X API.

Looking for even more code? You can find examples on our GitHub, and on Glitch.

twemoji

Twitter’s free, open source emoji character set, including a JavaScript library for cross-platform support.

twitter-text

A collection of libraries to standardize parsing and tokenization of Tweet text.

Available for Java, JavaScript, Objective-C & Ruby.

Learn more about counting characters in Tweets.

OpenAPI specification

Use this specification to exercise the v2 API with tools like Postman or Insomnia.

twurl

A command-line tool (CLI) for interacting with the Twitter API, including OAuth authentication.

Requires a Ruby runtime.

Postman collection 

Explore the v2 API endpoints using Postman, the visual REST client.

Community tools and libraries

These are some of the many community-supported libraries that cover the Twitter API, across several programming languages and platforms. Note that these resources may not all have been tested by the Twitter team.

The libraries listed here should implement most features of the Standard API v1.1, unless otherwise noted - check with the authors for details, and for additional support.

If you have built a library that supports Twitter API v2, please let us know about it via our community forums, for possible addition to this page. You can also use the forums to let us know about any changes to the listings on this page.

If you're missing a library or tool for your favorite programming language, let us know via the feedback platform, where you can also vote for ideas, or get inspired to build and submit something new.

.NET

(ASP, C#, VB)

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CoreTweet

by @CoreTweet (v2)

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ColdFusion

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Dart

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Elixir

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Erlang

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Go

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twty

A command-line client tool written in Go, by @mattn

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tw-oob-oauth-cli

A small PIN-based OAuth tool to retrieve tokens, by @smaeda-ks

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Java

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twittered

by @redouanebali (v2, Premium v1.1 support)

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JavaScript / Node.js

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twittersignin

A wrapper around Twit to simplify signin, by @shalvah

Julia

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Kotlin

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Tweedle

by @tyczj (v2 in alpha)

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Lua

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Objective-C

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Perl

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PowerShell

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Python

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tweetget

by @gnascimento. A search client library for Premium v1.1.

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TwitterAPI

by @geduldig. Includes v2, Premium v1.1 and Labs support.

tweepy

by the tweepy Developers. Includes Premium v1.1 support.

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twitter

by the Python Twitter Tools developer team. Includes a CLI, IRC tools, and minimalist API library for v1.1

R

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rtweet

by @kearnymw. Includes Premium v1.1 search support.

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rtweetXtras

Helper functions for rTweet, by @Arf9999

tweetrmd

Easily embed Tweets into R Markdown, by @gadenbuie

Ruby

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t

A command-line tool by @sferik

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twitter-labs-api

by @tomholford (supports Labs)

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Rust

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Scala

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Shell script (Bash)

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tweet.sh

A simple Twitter client by @piroor. Requires additional command-line tools.

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Swift

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TypeScript

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twitter-d

TypeScript definitions for v1.1 Twitter API objects, by @Abraham