X api rate limits
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X API OpenAPI spec: the one endpoint with no key
The X API OpenAPI spec is a 1.3 MB file at api.x.com/2/openapi.json, free and unauthenticated. It is also a different file every time you fetch it.
·→Article·9 min readX API followers: the request that can cost $10
Follower reads bill per user at $0.010, pages go to 1,000, and two owned routes exist in the spec with no doc page, no SDK method and no rate limit.
·→Article·9 min readX API usage: the dollar figure the API withholds
Two endpoints report X API usage. One counts Posts, one counts dollars left, and neither tells you what you actually spent. One is missing from the docs index.
·→Article·10 min readX API user lookup: six routes and a $1 request
Six routes return an X user profile, the live spec exposes 27 user fields, and X's own integration guide documents 11 of them with three dead parameter names.
·→Article·10 min readX API bookmarks: the two caps that are not in the docs
The bookmarks endpoints in 2026: a staff-acknowledged 199-result window on the flat list, a hard 20 on folders, and the batch write that costs a fifth of a cent.
·→Article·9 min readX API Communities: the permission you cannot check
The X API Communities endpoints in 2026: two paths that were never announced, a documented field that does not exist, and a 403 X tells you to debug blind.
·→Article·11 min readX API Community Notes: the mode you cannot turn off
The X API Community Notes endpoints in 2026: five paths, test_mode forced on until an automated evaluator admits you, and the one path X's own changelog got wrong.
·→Article·9 min readX API trends: two endpoints that disagree on one number
The X API trends endpoints in 2026: volume is opt-in, the two paths name and type the same count differently, and one is capped at 200 app calls a day.
·→Article·11 min readX API compliance: the deletion job you owe X
Batch compliance jobs, the 24-hour deletion rule and the Enterprise-only event streams: what X API compliance requires in 2026, and what obeying it costs.
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