Profile

When to use this

Use it to size up an account: followers, following, tweets and likes as exact numbers, plus bio, website, location, join date and verification. verified is the blue check; verified_type shows gold (Business) and grey (Government) checks. Pass a pinned_tweet_ids entry to the tweet endpoint for the pinned tweet.

Protected accounts return their profile with protected: true. Unknown and suspended accounts return 404 not_found.

Parameters

All parameters go in the query string.

Example request

Replace YOUR_API_KEY with your key, or set LURKAPI_KEY for the code. Get a free key.

curl "https://api.lurkapi.com/v1/twitter/profile?handle=NASA" \
  -H "x-api-key: YOUR_API_KEY"

const params = new URLSearchParams({
  handle: "NASA",
});
const res = await fetch(`https://api.lurkapi.com/v1/twitter/profile?${params}`, {
  headers: { "x-api-key": process.env.LURKAPI_KEY },
});
const data = await res.json();
if (!data.success) throw new Error(`${data.code}: ${data.error}`);
console.log(data.pinned_tweet_ids);

import os
import requests

res = requests.get(
    "https://api.lurkapi.com/v1/twitter/profile",
    params={
        "handle": "NASA",
    },
    headers={"x-api-key": os.environ["LURKAPI_KEY"]},
    timeout=60,
)
data = res.json()
if not data["success"]:
    raise RuntimeError(f"{data['code']}: {data['error']}")
print(data["pinned_tweet_ids"])

Example response

A real response from this endpoint, captured from the live API and trimmed to a couple of items. Strings over 96 characters (mostly signed media URLs) are cut short and end in ….

{
  "success": true,
  "credits_remaining": 999998,
  "credits_charged": 1,
  "id": "11348282",
  "handle": "NASA",
  "name": "NASA",
  "bio": "Making the seemingly impossible, possible. ✨",
  "location": "Pale Blue Dot",
  "website": "http://www.nasa.gov/",
  "avatar": "https://pbs.twimg.com/profile_images/1321163587679784960/0ZxKlEKB_400x400.jpg",
  "banner": "https://pbs.twimg.com/profile_banners/11348282/1788992290",
  "verified": true,
  "verified_type": "Government",
  "created_at": "2007-12-19T20:20:32.000Z",
  "followers": 92377446,
  "following": 115,
  "tweets": 74343,
  "media_count": 28163,
  "likes": 17002,
  "pinned_tweet_ids": [
    "2104593672624886205"
  ],
  "protected": false,
  "professional_type": null
}

Response fields

Every field of a successful response. [] marks a list: a[].b is the b of each item in a. nullable fields can be null; optional fields can be missing.

Caching and freshness

Responses are cached for up to 1 hour, so a repeat call within that window can return the same data. It still costs 1 credit.

Errors

Errors return { success: false, error, code, docs } with the HTTP status below. Validation errors, 401/402/429 rejections and 5xx failures are free; not_found is charged (how charging works). All error codes.

Use it in Claude

Once LurkAPI is connected to Claude, this endpoint is the twitter_profile tool. Ask in plain English, for example:

Use LurkAPI's twitter_profile with handle "NASA" and summarize what you find.

Claude calls twitter_profile with arguments like these, and each call costs 1 credit:

{
  "handle": "NASA"
}

Tool results skip nulls and empty lists to save tokens.