# How do I get the view count of any tweet through an API?

> Read views, likes, replies, reposts and bookmarks of any public X (Twitter) post from its link, track them daily, and compare with the official X API.

Canonical page: https://okdata.online/answers/tweet-view-count-api/

**Short answer: **Send the post's link or ID to X post detail: it returns views, likes, replies, reposts and bookmarks for any public post, yours or not, for $0.001 a post. Checking 50 campaign posts once a day for two weeks is 700 calls, $0.70.

An agency pays 10 creators to post about a launch and has to report views per post every day for two weeks. The posts belong to the creators, so the agency cannot read them through its own analytics. [X post detail](/apis/x/posts/get/) takes a post's link or ID and returns the public numbers X shows under the post. That works for any public post.

## What comes back

- `metrics.views`: the view count X displays
- `metrics.likes`, `metrics.reposts`, `metrics.comments` (replies) and `metrics.favorites` (bookmarks)
- `ext.quotes` (quote posts) when you add `view=full`
- `text`, `published_at`, `lang`, media in `images`, and the author with follower count

`metrics.shares` is always null, because X does not show a share count, and the response says so in `meta.unavailable`.

## Daily tracking

```python
import csv, datetime, os, requests

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

links = [line.strip() for line in open("campaign-posts.txt") if line.strip()]
today = datetime.date.today().isoformat()

with open("views.csv", "a", newline="", encoding="utf-8") as f:
    w = csv.writer(f)
    for link in links:
        body = requests.get(f"{API}/x/posts/get", headers=H, params={"url": link}, timeout=60).json()
        if body["code"] != "ok":
            w.writerow([today, link, body["code"]])  # not_found: deleted or protected, not charged
            continue
        m = body["data"]["item"]["metrics"]
        w.writerow([today, link, m["views"], m["likes"], m["reposts"], m["comments"], m["favorites"]])
```

Links can be x.com or twitter.com, including mobile links. Run the script once a day and the CSV turns into a growth curve per post.

## Cost

| Job | Calls | Cost |
|---|---|---|
| One post | 1 | $0.001 |
| 50 posts, once | 50 | $0.05 |
| 50 posts, daily for 14 days | 700 | $0.70 |

If the posts share a hashtag or mention, one [X post search](/apis/x/posts/search/) page ($0.006) returns about 20 posts with the same metrics, which is cheaper than fetching them one by one.

## Gotchas

- Posts from before X began showing view counts in late 2022 have no views, so `views` is null.
- Deleted posts and protected accounts return `not_found`, which is not charged.
- The numbers are what X shows the public at that moment. Impressions broken down by source, link clicks and profile visits are private analytics, visible only to the author.

## The official alternative

X's own API includes `impression_count` in a post's public metrics, at $0.005 per post read under pay-per-use. That is a good fit if you already run on the X API. The author's private metrics, such as link clicks, need the author's own login on either route. For a wider campaign view, see the [competitor monitoring guide](/solutions/competitor-monitoring/).

## Endpoints used

- [X post detail](https://okdata.online/apis/x/posts/get/) `x.posts.get`: $0.001 per call
- [X post search](https://okdata.online/apis/x/posts/search/) `x.posts.search`: $0.006 per call · about 20 posts per page

Updated 2026-11-12