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X (Twitter) General API

Miscellaneous endpoints for general API functionality

X (Twitter) General 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 General. 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 1 operation across 1 path. It is described by OpenAPI 3.0.0, at version 2.161.

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

1 operations 1 paths 0 schemas 1 GET

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) General 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 1

Across 1 path, the API surfaces 1 operation — 1 GET. Each is listed below with its method, path, parameters, and response codes.

General 1

Miscellaneous endpoints for general API functionality

GET
/2/openapi.json
X Get OpenAPI Spec.
getOpenApiSpec → 200

Specification

The full machine-readable OpenAPI contract behind this narrative.

Source

twitter-general-api-openapi.yml Raw ↑

Other APIs X (Twitter) publishes across the network.

X Ads API
X Activity API
X (Twitter) Account Activity API
X (Twitter) Activity API
X (Twitter) Bookmarks API
X (Twitter) Chat API
X (Twitter) Communities API
X (Twitter) Community Notes API
X (Twitter) Compliance API
X (Twitter) Connections API
X (Twitter) Direct Messages API
X (Twitter) Likes API