README

Xquik is an independent third-party service. Not affiliated with X Corp. "Twitter" and "X" are trademarks of X Corp.

The Xquik PHP SDK is a Twitter API SDK and X API alternative for tweet search, advanced Twitter search queries, profile tweets, user lookup, follower export, media download, media upload, monitoring, webhooks, and posting automation.

Use it from PHP 8.1.0+ applications to get tweets from profiles, search tweets by keyword or operator query, send tweets, post replies, like, repost, follow, DM, run giveaway draws, and automate X workflows.

It is generated with Stainless.

Documentation

The REST API documentation can be found on xquik.com.

Installation

Install the package from Packagist with Composer:

composer require xquik/x-twitter-scraper:^0.4.4

Usage

This library uses named parameters to specify optional arguments. Parameters with a default value must be set by name.

<?php

use XTwitterScraper\Client;

$client = new Client(
  apiKey: getenv('X_TWITTER_SCRAPER_API_KEY') ?: 'My API Key'
);

$paginatedTweets = $client->x->tweets->search(q: 'from:elonmusk', limit: 10);

var_dump($paginatedTweets->has_next_page);

Value Objects

It is recommended to use the static with constructor Dog::with(name: "Joey") and named parameters to initialize value objects.

However, builders are also provided (new Dog)->withName("Joey").

Handling errors

When the library is unable to connect to the API, or if the API returns a non-success status code (i.e., 4xx or 5xx response), a subclass of XTwitterScraper\Core\Exceptions\APIException will be thrown:

<?php

use XTwitterScraper\Core\Exceptions\APIConnectionException;
use XTwitterScraper\Core\Exceptions\RateLimitException;
use XTwitterScraper\Core\Exceptions\APIStatusException;

try {
  $account = $client->account->retrieve();
} catch (APIConnectionException $e) {
  echo "The server could not be reached", PHP_EOL;
  var_dump($e->getPrevious());
} catch (RateLimitException $e) {
  echo "A 429 status code was received; we should back off a bit.", PHP_EOL;
} catch (APIStatusException $e) {
  echo "Another non-200-range status code was received", PHP_EOL;
  echo $e->getMessage();
}

Error codes are as follows:

Retries

Certain errors will be automatically retried 2 times by default, with a short exponential backoff.

Connection errors (for example, due to a network connectivity problem), 408 Request Timeout, 409 Conflict, 429 Rate Limit, >=500 Internal errors, and timeouts will all be retried by default.

You can use the maxRetries option to configure or disable this:

<?php

use XTwitterScraper\Client;

// Configure the default for all requests:
$client = new Client(requestOptions: ['maxRetries' => 0]);

// Or, configure per-request:
$result = $client->account->retrieve(requestOptions: ['maxRetries' => 5]);

File uploads

Request parameters for file uploads accept a resource from fopen(), raw contents, or a FileParam.

<?php

use XTwitterScraper\Core\FileParam;

$contents = file_get_contents('/path/to/file');
$response = $client->x->media->upload(
  file: FileParam::fromString($contents, filename: '/path/to/file', contentType: '…'),
);

$response = $client->x->media->upload(file: '…');

$fd = fopen('/path/to/file', 'r');
try {
  $response = $client->x->media->upload(
    file: FileParam::fromResource($fd, filename: '/path/to/file', contentType: '…'),
  );
} finally {
  fclose($fd);
}

Advanced concepts

Making custom or undocumented requests

Undocumented properties

You can send undocumented parameters to any endpoint, and read undocumented response properties, like so:

Note: the extra* parameters of the same name overrides the documented parameters.

<?php

$account = $client->account->retrieve(
  requestOptions: [
    'extraQueryParams' => ['my_query_parameter' => 'value'],
    'extraBodyParams' => ['my_body_parameter' => 'value'],
    'extraHeaders' => ['my-header' => 'value'],
  ],
);

Undocumented request params

If you want to explicitly send an extra param, you can do so with the extra_query, extra_body, and extra_headers under the request_options: parameter when making a request, as seen in the examples above.

Undocumented endpoints

To make requests to undocumented endpoints while retaining the benefit of auth, retries, and so on, you can make requests using client.request, like so:

<?php

$response = $client->request(
  method: "post",
  path: '/undocumented/endpoint',
  query: ['dog' => 'woof'],
  headers: ['useful-header' => 'interesting-value'],
  body: ['hello' => 'world']
);

Versioning

This package follows SemVer conventions. As the library is in initial development and has a major version of 0, APIs may change at any time.

This package considers improvements to the (non-runtime) PHPDoc type definitions to be non-breaking changes.

Requirements

PHP 8.1.0 or higher.

Contributing

See the contributing documentation.