How do I get all the tweets from a Twitter account?

Say you want everything a competitor posted on X this year, to see what they announced and what landed. Two calls cover it. X account posts gives the account's posts newest first, a page at a time, and you stop when you pass your start date. For older stretches, or to be sure nothing was skipped, X post search with from:handle and a date window goes back period by period.

Plan the run

Check the profile first with X account profile ($0.001). Its posts field is X's own total for the account. That total includes replies and reposts, so your collected count will rarely match it exactly, but it tells you whether you are dealing with 400 posts or 40,000.

Account	Posts	Pages	Cost
Posts 2 a day, one year	about 730	37	$0.222
Posts 10 a day, one year	about 3,650	183	$1.098
Same, sliced by month through search	about 3,650	183	$1.098

Code: timeline until a cut-off date

import os, requests

API = "https://api.okdata.online/v1"
H = {"Authorization": f"Bearer {os.environ['OKDATA_API_KEY']}"}
START = "2026-01-01"

def get(path, **params):
    body = requests.get(f"{API}/{path}", headers=H, params=params, timeout=60).json()
    if body["code"] != "ok":
        raise RuntimeError(f"{body['code']}: {body['message']}")
    return body

posts, cursor = [], None
while True:
    body = get("x/users/posts/list", username="openai", **({"cursor": cursor} if cursor else {}))
    batch = body["data"]["items"]
    posts += [p for p in batch if p["published_at"] >= START]
    if not body["page"]["has_more"] or (batch and batch[-1]["published_at"] < START):
        break
    cursor = body["page"]["next_cursor"]

print(len(posts), "posts since", START)

For the search route, loop over months with query=f"from:openai since:{a} until:{b}" and sort=latest. Add -filter:replies if you only want the account's own posts and not its replies to others.

Limits

• How deep the timeline pages go is up to X. If it stops before your start date, switch to the monthly search slices.
• Protected accounts and deleted posts cannot be collected.
• Each page is one charge, and a page that fails costs nothing.

The official alternative

X's API returns at most the 3,200 most recent posts from a user's timeline. Its full-archive search with from: goes back to 2006 for pay-per-use accounts, at $0.005 per post. For one account with a few thousand posts that is a fair price, and it is the route to pick if you need X's own guarantee of completeness. For a dozen competitor accounts every week, per-page billing adds up to less. The competitor monitoring guide shows a weekly version of this run.