X

LiveSensitive

Posts mentioning an account

GET/data-api/v2/x/users/{handle}/mentions
Scope
scrape:live
Freshness
live read
Group
X
Platforms
1 of 7

What this endpoint answers

Who is talking about this account, newest first. X publishes no mentions timeline on this path, so it is a search for the handle with the account's own posts excluded - which is the right definition anyway: a mention report that counts your own posts inflates every reach number in it.

This is a live read: it goes to the platform at request time, returns cache_age_s = 0, and is metered against a separate live-per-minute bucket on top of your tier. It needs the scrape:live scope (Live scrape): Read from the platform itself rather than from the catalog: a profile or channel on any of the seven platforms, and on X the whole content layer - timelines, posts, replies, quotes, threads, followers, search, lists and communities.

Good to know

  • Search coverage, not archive coverage. X's search index does not go back indefinitely and does not include every post, so this measures recent visible conversation rather than every mention ever made.
  • Each row carries its full author, so a verified-mentioner count needs no second call.
  • Pagination is an opaque cursor: pass next_cursor back as ?cursor= and stop when has_next_page is false. Cursors are X's own and expire; treat them as good for the next call, not as a bookmark to store.
  • Metered as a live call. It leaves the building and spends a slot on the same scraper pool that lets sellers verify a listing, so read GET /scrape/status and back off BEFORE you start failing rather than after.
  • 503 with upstream_error or upstream_timeout is worth retrying; 404 is not. A 503 whose message names a rate-limited X endpoint means the answer is unknown, not empty - never cache it as a result.

Parameters

Every value the call accepts, with the example the spec ships so the request runs as written.

NameInRequiredExampleWhat it does
handlepathrequiredelonmuskX handle, with or without @. A full x.com URL is accepted and stripped.
limitqueryoptional20Rows in this page, 1-100. The ceiling is the service's, not yours: asking for more returns the ceiling rather than an error.
cursorqueryoptional-Opaque token from a previous response's next_cursor.

Call it

Authenticate with a bearer token or the x-api-key header. Keys are server-to-server credentials. Never embed one in front-end code - call the API from your own backend and forward the result.

curl
curl "https://crmsolid.com/data-api/v2/x/users/elonmusk/mentions" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer psk_live_..."
JavaScript
const res = await fetch("https://crmsolid.com/data-api/v2/x/users/elonmusk/mentions", {
  headers: {
    Authorization: `Bearer ${process.env.CRM_SOLID_DATA_API_KEY}`,
  },
});

if (!res.ok) {
  const { error } = await res.json();
  throw new Error(`${error.code}: ${error.message} (${error.request_id})`);
}

const { data, meta } = await res.json();
Python
import os

import requests

res = requests.get(
    "https://crmsolid.com/data-api/v2/x/users/elonmusk/mentions",
    headers={"Authorization": f"Bearer {os.environ['CRM_SOLID_DATA_API_KEY']}"},
    timeout=30,
)
res.raise_for_status()

payload = res.json()
data, meta = payload["data"], payload["meta"]

Keys look like psk_live_... for production keys, psk_test_... for test keys and are minted in the panel.

What comes back

Success is { data, meta }. Failure is { error: { code, message, request_id } }. The body below is the spec's own example: the values in it are illustrative readings, not live numbers.

Tweets
1 items
200 GET /x/users/{handle}/mentions
{
  "data": {
    "tweets": [
      {
        "tweet_id": "1908244251923312641",
        "url": "https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1908244251923312641",
        "text": "Starship is stacked",
        "created_at": "2026-08-30T16:02:11+00:00",
        "lang": "en",
        "source": "Twitter for iPhone",
        "likes": 184221,
        "retweets": 21004,
        "replies": 9118,
        "quotes": 1402,
        "bookmarks": 3889,
        "views": 41882337,
        "is_reply": false,
        "is_retweet": false,
        "is_quote": false,
        "conversation_id": "1908244251923312641",
        "in_reply_to_tweet_id": null,
        "quoted_tweet_id": null,
        "retweeted_tweet_id": null,
        "hashtags": [],
        "mentions": [],
        "links": [],
        "media": [
          "photo"
        ],
        "author": {
          "user_id": "44196397",
          "handle": "elonmusk",
          "display_name": "Elon Musk",
          "bio": "",
          "followers": 221400112,
          "following": 1104,
          "tweets": 78412,
          "media_count": 9233,
          "likes_given": 148902,
          "is_verified": false,
          "is_blue_verified": true,
          "is_protected": false,
          "location": null,
          "avatar_url": "https://pbs.twimg.com/profile_images/1234567890/abc_400x400.jpg",
          "header_url": null,
          "created_at": "2009-06-02T20:12:29+00:00",
          "profile_url": "https://x.com/elonmusk"
        }
      }
    ]
  },
  "meta": {
    "request_id": "req_9f2c41a8b3d5",
    "generated_at": "2026-08-23T09:14:02.317Z",
    "took_ms": 42,
    "page": {
      "limit": 50,
      "next_cursor": "eyJrIjoiMTczNDU2IiwiZCI6ImEifQ",
      "count": 50
    },
    "cache_age_s": 0
  }
}

The meta block

  • request_idstringrequired

    Unique id for this request. Quote it in a support ticket.

  • generated_atstringrequired

    Server time the response was produced.

  • took_msintegerrequired

    Milliseconds spent server-side.

  • pagePageoptional
  • sourcestringoptional

    Which backend served the payload, for endpoints with more than one.

  • cache_age_sintegeroptional

    Age of the underlying data in seconds. 0 for live reads.

meta.page

  • limitintegerrequired

    Rows requested. Default 50, maximum 500.

  • next_cursorstringrequired

    Pass as ?cursor= to fetch the next page. null means the result set is exhausted, and it is the only reliable stop condition.

  • countintegerrequired

    Rows in this page.

  • totalintegeroptional

    Total matching rows. Present only when counting is cheap; never assume it is there.

List endpoints take ?limit= (max 500) and ?cursor=. Follow meta.page.next_cursor until it is null; cursors are opaque and signed.

When it fails

GET /x/users/{handle}/mentions documents 8 failure statuses. Branch on error.code, which is stable and enumerated; message is prose and may change.

  • 401Unauthorizedunauthorized | invalid_key

    No key was presented, or the key is unknown, revoked or expired.

  • 402PaymentRequiredpayment_required | subscription_inactive

    The key is valid but the plan behind it cannot serve the call: the included requests are spent and overage is switched off, capped or unfunded (payment_required), or the billing period lapsed and was not renewed (subscription_inactive). Retrying does not help; paying does. The X-Plan-* headers on this response say how far past the line you are.

    Carries X-Plan, X-Plan-Limit, X-Plan-Overage, X-Plan-Period-End, X-Plan-Remaining.

  • 403Forbiddenforbidden_scope | forbidden_ip

    The key is valid but not allowed to make this call: it lacks the scope, or the request came from an address outside the key's allowlist.

  • 404NotFoundnot_found

    The addressed resource does not exist.

  • 422InvalidRequestinvalid_request

    A parameter is malformed, out of range or mutually exclusive with another. `details` names the offending fields.

  • 429RateLimitedrate_limited | quota_exceeded

    Either the burst ceiling for the current minute or the daily quota is spent. Distinguish with the code: rate_limited clears within the minute, quota_exceeded does not clear until 00:00 UTC.

    Carries Retry-After, X-Quota-Limit, X-Quota-Remaining, X-RateLimit-Limit, X-RateLimit-Remaining, X-RateLimit-Reset, X-Request-Id.

  • 500InternalErrorinternal_error

    Something failed on our side. Internals are never leaked; quote the request id.

  • 503Unavailableupstream_timeout | upstream_error | not_configured

    The request could not be served right now. BRANCH ON error.code, not on the status: 'upstream_timeout' means a source was too slow (this is what a catalog query hitting its 15-second statement timeout returns, so it is reachable from any endpoint that reads the corpus, not only the live-scrape ones) and the same call is worth retrying with backoff - narrowing it with a smaller limit, a filtered scope or a less popular account makes it far less likely; 'upstream_error' means a source was unreachable, so back off further; 'not_configured' means the capability has no backing service in this deployment, and retrying will never help.

Every response carries X-Request-Id and meta.request_id. Quote it in support requests.

Coverage and limits

This endpoint covers X. Rate limits come from the tier on your key.

X
TierRequests a minuteRequests a dayLive reads a minute
free301,0005
standard12025,00020
pro600250,00060
unlimited6,00010,000,000600

Live reads count against the live column as well as the ordinary one, so a burst of them runs out of the live bucket first. Every response reports where you stand in X-RateLimit-Limit, X-RateLimit-Remaining, X-RateLimit-Reset and the X-Plan headers.

Start calling it

A key takes a minute to mint in the panel, no card. The reference covers authentication, the envelope, scopes, rate limits and every error code in one page.

Reference path: /data-api/reference/x-users-mentions

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