| What it does | API to render HTML/CSS and capture website screenshots as images and PDFs
| Free API to read X posts, threads and profiles as Markdown or JSON without login or API key
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| Stage | Established
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| Founded | 2018
| 2023
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| Based in | US
| FR
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| Pricing model | Freemium
| Free
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| Pricing | Not given
| No charge. Funded by donations. Rate limits are applied per IP address and per endpoint: 45 requests per minute for single posts and profiles, 15 per minute for threads and timelines, 20 per minute for media, 4 history exports and 6 bulk requests every five minutes, 10 searches every fifteen minutes
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| Key features | - HTML and CSS to image rendering
- Website URL screenshots
- Dynamic Open Graph images from page metadata
- Reusable HTML and CSS templates
- Visual template editor
- PDF generation from HTML, CSS, and URLs
- Batch image creation in single request
- Signed image URLs for dynamic rendering
- Custom storage destinations and S3 integration
- Team organizations with shared resources and no per-seat charges
| - Single posts with full metrics: likes, reposts, replies, quotes, bookmarks and views
- Thread unrolling by stitching timeline with conversation ID
- Direct media downloads at every bitrate X encoded
- Bulk processing: up to fifty posts in one request
- Five output formats: JSON, Markdown, YAML, CSV, HTML
- MCP server integration for Claude and Cursor
- Full-text search with X search operators
- Markdown token counting via x-markdown-tokens header
- No authentication required: works with bare post IDs or x.com and twitter.com links
- Multiple integrations: SDK, OpenAPI spec, skill file, MCP server
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| What makes it different | - No browser management required - infrastructure handled by the API
- Unified API for images, PDFs, and templates
- Team collaboration without per-seat billing
- Integration with AI tools and automation platforms
- 100 million images rendered since 2018
| - Completely free with no sign-up, API key generation or credit card required
- Works with any AI agent without needing credentials to store or rotate
- No data storage: posts cached five days only, media streamed through disk
- Works even when X's official API is unavailable via four fallback sources behind each endpoint
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| Community votes | 0 | 0 |
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| DR (Domain Rating by Ahrefs) | 65 ▲ +1 (up) since last check | Not checked yet ● no change since last check |
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| Trust Flow (Majestic) | 9 | 0 |
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| Citation Flow (Majestic) | 38 | 14 |
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| Referring domains (Majestic) | 289 | 4 |
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HTML/CSS to Image
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