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X (Twitter) Compliance API

Endpoints related to keeping X data in your systems compliant

X (Twitter) Compliance API is one of 23 APIs that X (Twitter) publishes on the APIs.io network, described by a machine-readable OpenAPI specification.

Tagged areas include Compliance. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes an OpenAPI specification, API documentation, a getting-started guide, an API reference, authentication docs, and rate-limit docs.

This API exposes 7 operations across 6 paths, and defines 54 schemas. It is described by OpenAPI 3.0.0, at version 2.161.

Requests are made against a single base URL, https://api.x.com.

7 operations 6 paths 54 schemas 6 GET1 POST

Metadata

The identity and technical contract details declared by the specification.

Specification
OpenAPI 3.0.0
API Version
2.161
Base URL
https://api.x.com/2
Authentication
HTTP Bearer, OAuth 2.0, HTTP Oauth
Terms of Service
Resource Areas
1

Authentication & Security 3

X (Twitter) Compliance API declares 3 security schemes for authenticating requests. It accepts HTTP bearer tokens (BearerToken). It supports OAuth 2.0 (OAuth2UserToken) using the authorizationCode flow, exposing 21 scopes. It uses HTTP oauth authentication (UserToken).

Paths & Operations 7

Across 6 paths, the API surfaces 7 operations — 6 GET, 1 POST. Each is listed below with its method, path, parameters, and response codes.

Compliance 7

Endpoints related to keeping X data in your systems compliant

GET
/2/compliance/jobs
X Get Compliance Jobs
getComplianceJobs 3 params → 200default
POST
/2/compliance/jobs
X Create Compliance Job
createComplianceJobs body → 200default
GET
/2/compliance/jobs/{id}
X Get Compliance Job by ID
getComplianceJobsById 2 params → 200default
GET
/2/likes/compliance/stream
X Stream Likes Compliance Data
streamLikesCompliance 3 params → 200default
GET
/2/tweets/compliance/stream
X Stream Posts Compliance Data
streamPostsCompliance 4 params → 200default
GET
/2/tweets/label/stream
X Stream Post Labels
streamLabelsCompliance 3 params → 200default
GET
/2/users/compliance/stream
X Stream Users Compliance Data
streamUsersCompliance 4 params → 200default

Schemas 54

The contract defines 54 schemas that model the data the API accepts and returns. The most detailed are ComplianceJob (9 properties), TweetNotice (7 properties), TweetEditComplianceObjectSchema (4 properties), UserProfileModificationObjectSchema (4 properties). Each schema is shown below with its type and property counts.

TweetNotice
object
7 properties 4 required
UnlikeComplianceSchema
object
2 properties 2 required
UserScrubGeoObjectSchema
object
3 properties 3 required
TweetLabelStreamResponse
Tweet label stream events.
UserProtectComplianceSchema
object
1 property 1 required
LikeComplianceSchema
object
1 property 1 required
CreateComplianceJobRequest
object
A request to create a new batch compliance job.
3 properties 1 required
ComplianceJobStatus
string
Status of a compliance job.
TweetWithheldComplianceSchema
object
1 property 1 required
DownloadUrl
string
URL from which the user will retrieve their compliance results.
LikesComplianceStreamResponse
Likes compliance stream events.
TweetEditComplianceSchema
object
1 property 1 required
TweetComplianceSchema
object
3 properties 2 required
UserSuspendComplianceSchema
object
1 property 1 required
TweetUnviewableSchema
object
1 property 1 required
ComplianceJobType
string
Type of compliance job to list.
ComplianceJobName
string
User-provided name for a compliance job.
UserUnprotectComplianceSchema
object
1 property 1 required
TweetEditComplianceObjectSchema
object
4 properties 4 required
JobId
string
Compliance Job ID.
ComplianceJob
object
9 properties 8 required
TweetLabelData
Tweet label data.
TweetTakedownComplianceSchema
object
4 properties 3 required
TweetComplianceStreamResponse
Tweet compliance stream events.
CreateComplianceJobResponse
object
2 properties
UserUnsuspendComplianceSchema
object
1 property 1 required
TweetId
string
Unique identifier of this Tweet. This is returned as a string in order to avoid complications with languages and tools that cannot handle large integers.
TweetComplianceData
Tweet compliance data.
Error
object
2 properties 2 required
CreatedAt
string
Creation time of the compliance job.
Get2ComplianceJobsResponse
object
3 properties
UserComplianceStreamResponse
User compliance stream events.
ResultCount
integer
The number of results returned in this response.
UserUndeleteComplianceSchema
object
1 property 1 required
CountryCode
string
A two-letter ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code.
DownloadExpiration
string
Expiration time of the download URL.
TweetUnviewable
object
3 properties 3 required
TweetNoticeSchema
object
1 property 1 required
UserWithheldComplianceSchema
object
1 property 1 required
TweetUndropComplianceSchema
object
1 property 1 required
UploadExpiration
string
Expiration time of the upload URL.
TweetDeleteComplianceSchema
object
1 property 1 required
UserComplianceData
User compliance data.
Problem
object
An HTTP Problem Details object, as defined in IETF RFC 7807 (https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7807).
4 properties 2 required
UserComplianceSchema
object
2 properties 2 required
UserScrubGeoSchema
object
1 property 1 required
Get2ComplianceJobsIdResponse
object
2 properties
UserDeleteComplianceSchema
object
1 property 1 required
UserTakedownComplianceSchema
object
3 properties 3 required
UserProfileModificationObjectSchema
object
4 properties 4 required
UserId
string
Unique identifier of this User. This is returned as a string in order to avoid complications with languages and tools that cannot handle large integers.
UploadUrl
string
URL to which the user will upload their Tweet or user IDs.
UserProfileModificationComplianceSchema
object
1 property 1 required
TweetDropComplianceSchema
object
1 property 1 required

Specification

The full machine-readable OpenAPI contract behind this narrative.

Source

twitter-compliance-api-openapi.yml Raw ↑

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