Developer tools
GetXAPI alternatives
3 open-source projects that already do this job. Free to use - not free to run, which is what the numbers on the right are for.
The projects
getxapi/getxapi-mcpthe vendor’s own source★2 GitHub starsMIT licenceOfficial GetXAPI MCP server — use the Twitter/X API (search, users, tweets, posting, DMs, articles) inside Claude, Cursor & any MCP client.Open on GitHub ↗vladkens/twscrape★2,655 GitHub starsMIT licenceCLI and Python tool that scrapes X/Twitter with multi-account rotation and built-in rate-limit handling.Open on GitHub ↗d60/twikit★4,601 GitHub starsMIT licenceTwitter web-scraper that fetches X data without API keys, designed for automated scraping and data extraction.Open on GitHub ↗
What you give up either way
- Hosted SLA / 99.9% uptime and managed infra
- Built-in billing, credit wallets and subscription UI
- Hosted monitoring plans and operational support
- Guaranteed response latency and optional dedicated proxies
An open-source project doing the core job proves a replacement is possible. It does not prove it matches GetXAPI, and it does not prove anyone has run it for a month. How we decide.