Trawlx
Tweet text, likes, and retweets as JSON, no API keys
Details
- External ID
- 47107912
- Source
- HN
- Company
- —
- Product
- Trawlx
- Website domain
- github.com
- Launched
- Feb. 22, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 5
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.10512129380053908
- Tags
- —
- Fetched at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:25 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:25 p.m.
Enrichment
- Theme
- niche developer utilities and toolchains
- Vertical
- Media & entertainment
- Function
- Data infrastructure
- Audience
- Developer
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Commercial product
- Normalized one-liner
- scrape twitter data to json without api keys
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes Extracting public tweet metrics without API keys is typically achieved by scraping Twitter's public web endpoints (syndication/embed APIs or guest tokens), easily coded via AI assistance.
Discussion
3 comments analyzed.
Competitors mentioned: Nitter, Twint, Twitter official API, DuckDuckGo search
Concerns raised: DuckDuckGo indexing speed varies, All free Twitter data methods are dead or paid, Official API expensive ($100/month minimum)
Feature requests: Real-time delay quantification vs production search, Direct tweet reading capability (not just URL extraction)
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 57 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #51 of 58 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 96 days after the earliest competitor.
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