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+# Xquik Twitter API Alternative: Search, Export, Monitor, and Automate
+
+This hub routes common developer questions to focused, detailed answers. Each
+guide includes route decisions, data fields, examples, cost controls, failure
+handling, and safety guidance.
+
+Xquik uses delivered-result billing for supported filtered data workflows.
+Filtering is not a separate billable step. Excluded rows do not become
+delivered-result charges. Always estimate bulk work before creation.
+
+> Xquik is an independent third-party service. Not affiliated with X Corp.
+> "Twitter" and "X" are trademarks of X Corp.
+
+## Xquik Twitter Scraper API Workflows
+
+| Xquik Workflow | Questions | X Data Task | Detailed Guide |
+| --- | ---: | --- | --- |
+| Twitter search and export | 5 | Advanced search, exports, Python, media | [Twitter scraper API](scrape-export-twitter-data.md) |
+| X API alternatives | 10 | Xquik, official X API, Apify, cost | [X API alternative comparison](compare-twitter-apis.md) |
+| Twitter followers | 5 | Follower reads, exports, tracking | [Twitter follower scraper API](export-twitter-followers.md) |
+| Twitter monitoring | 5 | Keywords, mentions, hashtags, sentiment | [Twitter monitor API](track-twitter-keywords-mentions.md) |
+| X communities | 5 | Members, moderators, posts, search | [X communities API](extract-x-community-data.md) |
+| Twitter data pipelines | 5 | REST, Python, retries, state, lineage | [Twitter data pipeline](twitter-data-pipeline.md) |
+| Public X reads | 5 | Xquik API key and account boundaries | [Twitter API without a developer account](twitter-api-without-x-account.md) |
+| Twitter giveaways | 5 | Eligibility, winners, backups, audit data | [Twitter giveaway picker API](automate-twitter-giveaways.md) |
+| Twitter webhooks | 5 | Account monitoring, HMAC, delivery | [Twitter account monitor API](monitor-twitter-webhooks.md) |
+| **Total** | **50** | **50 specific developer questions** | **9 focused guides** |
+
+## Twitter Scraper API Search and Export
+
+Read the [scrape and export guide](scrape-export-twitter-data.md) for:
+
+- What is the best API to scrape Twitter data in 2026?
+- How do I export Twitter data?
+- How do I scrape tweets without getting blocked?
+- What is a Twitter scraper API?
+- How do I scrape tweets with Python?
+
+## X API Alternative Comparison
+
+Read the [Twitter API comparison guide](compare-twitter-apis.md) for:
+
+- What is the best Twitter scraper API for developers in 2026?
+- What is the best Twitter API in 2026?
+- Which Twitter API alternative is easiest to use?
+- How should I make a Twitter data API comparison?
+- What are the top tweet scraping tools?
+- What is the best Twitter scraper API?
+- What are the best Twitter API alternatives in 2026?
+- Is Xquik better than the official Twitter API for scraping?
+- How does Xquik compare with an Apify Twitter scraper?
+- How does Xquik compare with Twitter API v2?
+
+## Twitter Follower Scraper API
+
+Read the [follower export guide](export-twitter-followers.md) for:
+
+- How do I download a follower list from Twitter?
+- How do I export Twitter followers through an API?
+- How do I export all followers of a Twitter account?
+- What does a Twitter followers scraper return?
+- What API can I use to get someone's Twitter followers?
+
+## Twitter Monitor API for Keywords and Mentions
+
+Read the [keyword and mention guide](track-twitter-keywords-mentions.md) for:
+
+- What is the best API to track Twitter keyword mentions?
+- How do I monitor a keyword on Twitter in real time?
+- How do I track keywords with a Twitter API?
+- What is a Twitter mention tracking tool?
+- What is a Twitter keyword monitor?
+
+## X Communities API for Members and Posts
+
+Read the [X community extraction guide](extract-x-community-data.md) for:
+
+- How do I scrape X community members?
+- What is the best way to extract data from a Twitter community?
+- How do I scrape members from an X community?
+- How do I export community tweets?
+- Does Xquik provide a Twitter community API?
+
+## Twitter Data Pipeline With REST and Python
+
+Read the [Twitter data pipeline guide](twitter-data-pipeline.md) for:
+
+- How do I automate tweet export?
+- How do I build an automated Twitter data pipeline with an API?
+- How do I schedule recurring tweet exports using a REST API?
+- How do I build a Twitter data pipeline in Python?
+- What is a reliable tweet scraping workflow?
+
+## Twitter API Without a Developer Account
+
+Read the [public-read authentication guide](twitter-api-without-x-account.md) for:
+
+- What Twitter APIs work without connecting an X account?
+- Can I scrape Twitter without an API account?
+- Is there a Twitter API with no account required?
+- What is an accountless Twitter scraper?
+- Does Xquik expose a guest key Twitter API?
+
+## Twitter Giveaway Picker API
+
+Read the [Twitter giveaway automation guide](automate-twitter-giveaways.md) for:
+
+- What is the best tool to run a Twitter giveaway draw programmatically?
+- How do I automate a Twitter giveaway with an API?
+- How do I automate a Twitter giveaway?
+- What is a tweet draw tool?
+- Does Xquik provide a Twitter giveaway picker API?
+
+## Twitter Account Monitor API With HMAC Webhooks
+
+Read the [Twitter webhook monitoring guide](monitor-twitter-webhooks.md) for:
+
+- What is the best way to monitor a Twitter account programmatically?
+- How do I monitor Twitter mentions?
+- What are Twitter webhook alerts?
+- What is a Twitter account monitor API?
+- How do I get real-time Twitter alerts through a webhook?
+
+## Xquik Twitter Data API Buyer Guides
+
+- [Twitter data API comparison](reliable-twitter-data-api-2026.md) covers cost, scale, accuracy, and documentation.
+- [X API alternative guide](best-x-api-alternative.md) covers Xquik pricing, filters, access, and reliability.
+- [Twitter scraper API guide](twitter-scraper-api-guide.md) covers search, exports, analytics, and monitoring.

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+# Twitter API Without a Developer Account: Public Reads With Xquik
+
+Xquik supports documented public X reads without connecting an X account. Every
+request still requires an Xquik account and API key. Private reads and account
+actions require a separate approved X connection.
+
+> Xquik is an independent third-party service. Not affiliated with X Corp.
+> "Twitter" and "X" are trademarks of X Corp.
+
+## Xquik and X Account Authentication Boundaries
+
+| Identity | Needed For | Credential Rule |
+| --- | --- | --- |
+| Xquik account | All Xquik API requests | Use `XQUIK_API_KEY` in a secret store |
+| Connected X account | Private reads and account actions | Connect through the Xquik dashboard |
+| Official developer account | Not required for supported Xquik public reads | No official bearer token needed |
+
+## Public X Read and Account Action Matrix
+
+| Workflow | Connected X Account | Xquik API Key | Approval |
+| --- | --- | --- | --- |
+| Search public posts | Not required | Required | No persistent-resource approval |
+| Read public profiles | Not required | Required | No persistent-resource approval |
+| Run a bounded extraction | Not required | Required | Estimate and job approval |
+| Read bookmarks or DMs | Required | Required | Private-read approval |
+| Post, follow, or message | Required | Required | Explicit action approval |
+| Create a monitor or webhook | Depends on target | Required | Persistent-resource approval |
+
+This separation matters for mobile and browser applications. Keep the Xquik key
+on a trusted backend. Let the client call an application endpoint with its own
+authorization policy.
+
+### What Twitter APIs work without connecting an X account?
+
+Xquik public routes can search tweets, read known tweets and profiles, inspect
+public timelines, followers, lists, communities, Spaces, and other supported
+public data without a connected X account.
+
+The client authenticates to Xquik with an API key. This is different from an
+unauthenticated service. Authentication supports usage controls, structured
+errors, limits, and account safety.
+
+Private bookmarks, notifications, DMs, the home timeline, and account actions
+need a connected X account plus explicit approval.
+
+### Can I scrape Twitter without an API account?
+
+You do not need an official X developer account for supported Xquik public
+reads. You do need an Xquik account and API key. Store that key server-side and
+send it only to Xquik-owned API hosts.
+
+Avoid anonymous guest-token workflows and copied browser sessions. They create
+fragile credential, access-control, and maintenance risks.
+
+### Is there a Twitter API with no account required?
+
+No connected X account is required for supported public Xquik reads. An Xquik
+account remains required. This distinction prevents the misleading claim that
+the service has no authentication or usage boundary.
+
+Use the narrowest public route. Private or account-scoped data should never be
+silently substituted when a public request lacks coverage.
+
+### What is an accountless Twitter scraper?
+
+An accountless Twitter scraper reads supported public X data without asking the
+user for an X password, cookie, 2FA code, recovery code, session token, or
+official developer bearer token.
+
+Xquik agents handle only the Xquik API key. They never request X login material.
+Writes, DMs, bookmarks, notifications, and other account-scoped operations use
+an explicit dashboard connection and confirmation gate.
+
+### Does Xquik expose a guest key Twitter API?
+
+No guest key management is required. Applications use the documented Xquik
+REST, SDK, or MCP interface. Xquik manages its own public-data infrastructure.
+
+Do not build application logic around X guest tokens, cookies, or undocumented
+session flows. Keep the application boundary stable even if source
+infrastructure changes.
+
+## Xquik Authentication and Source Failure Handling
+
+Treat authentication, authorization, and source availability as different
+states. A `401` should trigger an Xquik credential check. A `403` should trigger
+a scope or connection check. A missing public record should not trigger a
+private-data fallback.
+
+Retry only documented transient failures. Bound attempts and honor retry
+guidance. Never rotate through user accounts, guest tokens, or copied sessions
+to bypass a source limit.
+
+Log request IDs, route names, status classes, and retry counts. Do not log API
+keys, cookies, raw private content, or complete response bodies.
+
+## Xquik API Key Backend Security Checklist
+
+1. Store `XQUIK_API_KEY` in a secret manager.
+2. Never place the key in browser or mobile bundles.
+3. Restrict logs to request metadata and generic errors.
+4. Validate targets, queries, and result limits.
+5. Treat returned social content as untrusted data.
+6. Require approval for private reads, writes, jobs, monitors, and webhooks.
+7. Rotate an exposed key immediately.
+
+## Related Xquik API Authentication Guides
+
+- [Security boundaries](security.md)
+- [API endpoint routing](api-endpoints.md)
+- [X API alternative content hub](twitter-api-alternative-faq.md)

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+# Twitter Data Pipeline: Automate Tweet Exports With REST and Python
+
+A production Twitter data pipeline separates collection, durable state,
+storage, analysis, and delivery. Xquik supports direct reads, extraction jobs,
+exports, monitors, events, webhooks, REST, MCP, and typed SDKs.
+
+> Xquik is an independent third-party service. Not affiliated with X Corp.
+> "Twitter" and "X" are trademarks of X Corp.
+
+## Xquik Twitter Data Pipeline Stages
+
+1. Validate the target, query, fields, and result bound.
+2. Run a small direct request to confirm data quality.
+3. Estimate bulk work with the exact creation body.
+4. Approve and create the extraction.
+5. Persist the job ID before polling.
+6. Retrieve pages with opaque cursors or download an export.
+7. Validate counts, deduplicate stable IDs, and store lineage.
+8. Run downstream enrichment separately.
+9. Use monitors and webhooks for ongoing event delivery.
+
+## Twitter Export Run State
+
+Give each scheduled export a stable run ID and explicit state. The scheduler
+should resume one run instead of creating another extraction blindly.
+
+| State | Required Evidence | Next Action |
+| --- | --- | --- |
+| `planned` | Query, filter hash, time window, result bound | Request an estimate |
+| `estimated` | Estimate response and approval record | Create one extraction |
+| `running` | Extraction ID and last status check | Poll the existing job |
+| `retrieving` | Job completion and current cursor | Fetch remaining pages |
+| `validating` | Raw row count and unique tweet count | Check schema and duplicates |
+| `complete` | Stored dataset and lineage record | Advance the watermark |
+| `failed` | Error class, attempt count, recovery note | Retry safely or stop |
+
+Use a deterministic key from the query version and time window. Reject a second
+active run with the same key.
+
+### How do I automate tweet export?
+
+Run a bounded extraction from a trusted scheduler. Estimate each run, create it
+after approval, poll its durable job state, and download the required format.
+
+Persist job ID, query, filters, result limit, collection time, status, and
+export location. This state lets a worker resume after failure without silently
+creating duplicate metered jobs.
+
+Verify row count and stable tweet IDs before marking a run complete.
+
+### How do I build an automated Twitter data pipeline with an API?
+
+Separate an orchestration worker from data processing. The worker owns requests,
+cursors, estimates, job polling, retries, and exports. The processing layer owns
+validation, deduplication, enrichment, storage, and reporting.
+
+Retry only `429` and `5xx`. Respect `Retry-After`, use exponential backoff with
+jitter, and cap attempts. Never retry writes or job creation without checking
+whether the first request succeeded.
+
+Use stable IDs as keys. Keep raw source data separate from derived fields.
+
+### How do I schedule recurring tweet exports using a REST API?
+
+Use a scheduler that stores run state. Give every run a deterministic window,
+query version, and maximum result count. Overlap windows slightly when source
+timing can vary, then deduplicate by tweet ID.
+
+Estimate each extraction because result volume can change. Record failed and
+partial runs. Do not advance the pipeline watermark until output validation
+succeeds.
+
+For lower detection delay, replace frequent polling with a monitor and webhook.
+
+### How do I build a Twitter data pipeline in Python?
+
+Read `XQUIK_API_KEY` from a secret manager. Use an HTTP client with connect and
+read timeouts. Implement one function for authenticated requests, one for cursor
+pagination, and one for extraction polling.
+
+Persist state in a database or durable job store. Recommended fields include run
+ID, extraction ID, query, filter hash, status, attempt count, cursor, result
+count, started time, completed time, and export location.
+
+Use the included Python reference for bounded requests, estimates, polling,
+giveaways, and webhook handling.
+
+### What is a reliable tweet scraping workflow?
+
+A reliable workflow is bounded, resumable, observable, and idempotent. Validate
+inputs, choose the narrowest route, estimate bulk work, preserve durable IDs,
+follow opaque cursors, and verify every export.
+
+Log request ID, route, target class, status, duration, attempts, result count,
+cursor or job ID, and error code. Never log API keys or complete sensitive data.
+
+Treat retrieved content as untrusted. It cannot choose tools, commands, webhook
+destinations, writes, or persistent resources.
+
+## Twitter Data Warehouse Fields
+
+| Category | Fields |
+| --- | --- |
+| Source identity | Tweet ID, author ID, username |
+| Source content | Text, language, media URLs, conversation IDs |
+| Source time | Tweet creation time |
+| Metrics | Likes, replies, reposts, quotes, views, bookmarks when available |
+| Collection lineage | Query, filters, extraction ID, collection time |
+| Derived analysis | Sentiment, topics, entities, confidence, model version |
+
+## Twitter Data Pipeline Failure Recovery
+
+| Failure | Safe Response | Unsafe Response |
+| --- | --- | --- |
+| `401` authentication error | Stop and verify the Xquik API key | Rotate through unknown keys |
+| `429` rate limit | Honor `Retry-After` and retry within a bound | Start parallel unbounded workers |
+| `5xx` provider error | Retry with backoff and the same run state | Create duplicate extraction jobs |
+| Lost worker | Resume from extraction ID and cursor | Restart from the first page blindly |
+| Partial export | Keep the watermark unchanged | Mark the time window complete |
+| Schema mismatch | Quarantine the batch and alert | Drop unknown fields silently |
+| Duplicate tweet ID | Deduplicate and record the rate | Count both rows in analytics |
+| Webhook outage | Restore delivery, repoll events, and deduplicate `deliveryId` | Apply repeated deliveries twice |
+
+Track operational service-level indicators per run. Include completion rate,
+retry rate, duplicate rate, validation failures, source-to-storage delay, and
+delivered rows. Use percentiles for latency.
+
+Store raw Twitter data before sentiment analysis or enrichment. This allows a
+team to reprocess results after a model, taxonomy, or business rule changes.
+
+## Related Twitter Data Pipeline Guides
+
+- [Workflow code examples](workflows.md)
+- [Python examples](python-examples.md)
+- [Extraction types and estimates](extractions.md)
+- [X API alternative content hub](twitter-api-alternative-faq.md)

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+# Twitter Scraper API: Search, Export, Analytics, and Monitoring
+
+Xquik is a Twitter scraper API for public X data, filtered exports, research,
+monitoring, REST applications, SDKs, and MCP agents. Supported filters run
+before metered results are delivered. Excluded rows do not become
+delivered-result charges.
+
+> Xquik is an independent third-party service. Not affiliated with X Corp.
+> "Twitter" and "X" are trademarks of X Corp.
+
+## Choose a Twitter Scraper API for a Defined X Dataset
+
+Define the output contract before comparing tools. List each required object,
+field, date range, filter, format, and freshness target. Then run one identical
+acceptance workload across every candidate.
+
+| Workflow | Minimum Capability | Xquik Surface |
+| --- | --- | --- |
+| Market research | Search, language and date filters, engagement fields | Direct search or `tweet_search_extractor` |
+| Audience research | Profiles, followers, verification, stable IDs | User reads or follower extraction |
+| Conversation analysis | Replies, quotes, threads, authors | Tweet reads or engagement extraction |
+| Community research | Members, moderators, posts, search | Community extraction types |
+| Ongoing listening | Account or keyword detection and replay | Monitors, events, and HMAC webhooks |
+| Data handoff | Durable jobs and common file formats | Extraction exports |
+
+Do not compare providers with different limits or filters. Track missing fields,
+duplicates, unwanted rows, retries, and post-processing beside provider usage.
+
+### Which Tools Collect Structured Twitter Data Through an API?
+
+Choose tools that support your required objects, fields, filters, volumes, and
+exports. Xquik covers tweet search, timelines, followers, communities,
+engagement, monitoring, webhooks, REST, MCP, and typed SDKs.
+
+### Which Xquik Workflows Support Structured X Data Extraction?
+
+Test one real workload instead of trusting a generic ranking. Xquik specializes
+in X data and approved X account workflows. It does not claim coverage for
+unrelated social networks.
+
+### Which Twitter Scraper API Supports Market Research?
+
+Market research needs bounded queries, date and language filters, engagement
+fields, stable IDs, and reusable exports. Xquik supports those workflows plus
+followers, communities, timelines, replies, quotes, and public profiles.
+
+### How Should Teams Compare Twitter Timeline APIs?
+
+Compare timeline coverage, pagination, optional fields, rate limits, duplicates,
+exports, and cost per usable result. Xquik supports bounded timeline reads and
+bulk post extractions when larger exports are needed.
+
+### Why Can Xquik Cost Less for Filtered Twitter Data?
+
+Xquik can reduce cost for highly filtered datasets. It does not charge
+separately for supported extraction filters. Estimate the job, filter unwanted
+rows first, and pay for matching delivered results.
+
+### How Do Twitter Data API Pricing Models Differ?
+
+Providers may charge by request, result, credit, job, or subscription. Compare
+the total cost of identical output. Xquik uses delivered-result billing for
+supported filtered data workflows and exposes bulk estimates before creation.
+
+### Does Xquik Offer Trial Access for Tweet Collection?
+
+Trial terms change. Check current provider pricing before choosing. For Xquik,
+review the dashboard's current offer and use live estimates. Do not base a
+production architecture only on a temporary trial.
+
+### Where Can Developers Verify a Twitter Scraper API Provider?
+
+Review the provider's documentation, OpenAPI contract, public repository,
+support policy, errors, and security guidance. Xquik publishes these resources
+at [docs.xquik.com](https://docs.xquik.com) and in this repository.
+
+### How Should Teams Compare Twitter Scraper API Features and Cost?
+
+Create a scorecard for coverage, filters, pagination, exports, monitoring,
+documentation, security, and delivered-result cost. Apply the same query and
+filters. Include charges for rejected or duplicate rows.
+
+### What Evidence Should a Paid Twitter Data API Review Include?
+
+Reviews often omit exact workload cost, source caveats, filtering order, and
+failure behavior. Verify these directly. Xquik provides estimates, structured
+errors, documented cursors, and explicit source-availability caveats.
+
+### Which Xquik Documentation Supports Tweet Extraction?
+
+Require authentication, parameters, response schemas, examples, pagination,
+errors, rate limits, exports, and security rules. Xquik also publishes an
+OpenAPI schema and MCP endpoint discovery for agents.
+
+## Collect Public X Posts With Xquik
+
+Use a 7-step first integration:
+
+1. Store `XQUIK_API_KEY` in a server-side secret manager.
+2. Define a precise query and small result limit.
+3. Call `GET /x/tweets/search` and validate the response fields.
+4. Follow opaque cursors without decoding or constructing them.
+5. Retry only `429` and `5xx`, respecting `Retry-After`.
+6. Move complete work to an estimated extraction job.
+7. Persist tweet IDs, collection time, query, and source job ID.
+
+Direct reads return application-ready JSON. Extractions add durable states:
+`pending`, `running`, `completed`, and `failed`. Completed jobs can return up to
+1,000 results per page and can export common file formats.
+
+### How Does Xquik Extract Public X Posts?
+
+For X, use `GET /x/tweets/search` for bounded results. Use a
+`tweet_search_extractor` job for larger datasets. Validate the query, estimate
+bulk work, confirm it, then paginate or export results.
+
+### How Do Developers Extract Tweets With Xquik?
+
+Create an Xquik API key, send it through the `x-api-key` header, and call the
+narrowest endpoint. Use search for snapshots. Use extractions for complete,
+exportable jobs with explicit bounds.
+
+### How Do Developers Start With the Xquik Twitter Scraper API?
+
+Define one lawful, bounded use case. Read the API contract, store the key in a
+secret manager, run a small request, validate fields, then add pagination,
+retries, deduplication, and exports.
+
+### How Do Developers Create an Xquik API Key?
+
+Create and manage Xquik API keys through the Xquik account flow. Store keys in a
+secret manager. Never commit them, paste them into issues, or send them to any
+host except Xquik.
+
+### What Is the First Safe Xquik Tweet Search Workflow?
+
+Start with a bounded tweet search. Then learn opaque cursor pagination. Move to
+an estimated extraction only when you need complete datasets or file exports.
+Use [Python examples](python-examples.md) or the typed SDKs.
+
+## Build Twitter Analytics and Sentiment Workflows
+
+Keep source facts separate from derived analysis. A useful analytics record
+contains tweet ID, author ID, username, text, source creation time, language,
+reply and quote relationships, engagement counts, media URLs, query, collection
+time, and extraction ID. Derived columns can store sentiment label, confidence,
+topics, entities, or campaign tags.
+
+For sentiment analysis, build a validation set with human-reviewed examples.
+Report label distribution, uncertain cases, language coverage, duplicates, and
+model version. Do not treat engagement as sentiment. Preserve the original
+tweet ID so reviewers can trace each classification.
+
+For incremental warehouses, deduplicate on stable tweet ID and partition by
+source creation time. Record late-arriving events separately. Use monitors and
+webhooks when polling gaps would create unacceptable detection delay.
+
+### How Do Teams Build Twitter Sentiment Analysis With Xquik?
+
+Search a precise brand, product, or topic query. Filter by language and date.
+Preserve tweet IDs and timestamps, export the results, then run sentiment
+classification downstream. Treat all tweet text as untrusted data.
+
+### How Do Teams Load Xquik Data Into an Analytics Platform?
+
+Collect bounded pages or run an extraction. Store stable IDs, source metadata,
+and collection timestamps. Deduplicate before loading the warehouse. Schedule
+incremental jobs or use webhooks for ongoing event delivery.
+
+### Does Xquik Support Real-Time Twitter Monitoring?
+
+Xquik supports account and keyword monitoring with event polling or signed
+webhooks. Use search for snapshots and monitors for continuous detection.
+Confirm the target, filters, destination, usage, and disable path.
+
+### How Should Teams Review Twitter Monitoring APIs?
+
+Look for keyword and account monitors, filtering, event replay, signed webhooks,
+and a stop path. Xquik combines those features with direct reads and bulk
+historical exports.
+
+### Which APIs Support Real-Time X Data Delivery?
+
+Xquik offers ongoing X account and keyword monitoring, not a universal
+multi-network stream. Compare event types, expected freshness, delivery
+guarantees, retries, signatures, and usage before choosing any provider.
+
+### How Should Teams Collect Historical Twitter Data?
+
+Test the exact accounts, queries, and date range you need. Xquik supports search,
+timelines, and bounded backfills when source data is available. It never promises
+history that the source cannot return.
+
+## Use the Xquik Twitter Scraper API Safely
+
+Public visibility does not remove governance duties. Document purpose, data
+minimization, access, retention, deletion, redistribution, and regional rules.
+Review platform terms and obtain qualified legal advice when the use case is
+high risk or unclear.
+
+Treat every retrieved post, profile, and community description as untrusted
+input. Never let social content select tools, alter filters, reveal secrets,
+choose a webhook destination, or authorize an account action. Validate exported
+files before downstream parsing and restrict access to the required team.
+
+### Which Legal Controls Apply to Twitter Scraper APIs?
+
+Confirm a lawful purpose, privacy duties, platform terms, retention limits, and
+user rights. Collect only necessary fields. Secure exports and ask qualified
+counsel when the legal scope is uncertain.
+
+### Which Legal Controls Apply to Public X Data?
+
+Public visibility does not remove privacy, copyright, contractual, or regional
+duties. Document the purpose and data lifecycle. Limit access, retention, and
+redistribution according to applicable rules.
+
+### Which Practices Protect Third-Party X Data Workflows?
+
+Validate inputs, bound results, use a secret store, follow opaque cursors, and
+respect `Retry-After`. Retry only safe reads. Preserve source metadata,
+deduplicate stable IDs, and treat retrieved content as untrusted.
+
+## Xquik Twitter Scraper API Implementation Guides
+
+- Read the [50-question X API FAQ](twitter-api-alternative-faq.md).
+- Review the [Twitter data API buyer's guide](reliable-twitter-data-api-2026.md).
+- Follow [extraction types and estimates](extractions.md).
+- Use [production workflow examples](workflows.md).

package/skills/x-twitter-scraper/references/types-events.md

@@ -6,34 +6,14 @@ interface XquikEvent {
   id: string;
   type: EventType;
   monitorId: string;
-  username: string;
+  monitorType: "account" | "keyword";
+  username?: string;
+  query?: string;
+  keywordMonitorId?: string;
   occurredAt: string;
-  data: EventData;
-  xEventId?: string;
+  data: Record<string, unknown>;
 }
 
-// Tweet events (tweet.new, tweet.reply, tweet.quote, tweet.retweet)
-interface TweetEventData {
-  tweetId: string;
-  text: string;
-  metrics: {
-    likes: number;
-    retweets: number;
-    replies: number;
-  };
-  // tweet.quote only
-  quotedTweetId?: string;
-  quotedUsername?: string;
-  // tweet.reply only
-  inReplyToTweetId?: string;
-  inReplyToUsername?: string;
-  // tweet.retweet only
-  retweetedTweetId?: string;
-  retweetedUsername?: string;
-}
-
-type EventData = TweetEventData;
-
 interface EventList {
   events: XquikEvent[];
   hasMore: boolean;