User About
Read a profile's full About object: identity, bio, location, linked website, avatar, verification and identity-verification flags, professional account type and categories, follower and following counts, the account creation date, and X's "About this account" transparency panel (account country, how the account was created, and username-change history). Cost: $0.0008 per call.
Request
- Base URL: https://api.twitterapis.com/twitter
- URL: https://api.twitterapis.com/twitter/user/user_about
- Auth: HTTP bearer
Query parameters
Handle without the leading @. Required: unlike the other user reads, this endpoint cannot be called with user_id alone.
Numeric user ID. Not currently a substitute for username on this endpoint: a user_id-only request fails upstream. Resolve the ID to a handle with GET /user/info_by_id and pass username.
Comma-separated list of dotted field paths to keep in the response (one parameter, never repeated), applied to every object in the returned lists and to nested objects (for example fields=id,text,author.username; the list's own name may prefix a path, fields=tweets.id). A path prefix that lands on an array applies to each element (media.media_url_https). Pagination and envelope keys (next_cursor, cursor, has_more, count, partial, error, message, reason) are always kept. Unknown paths are ignored; up to 50 paths of up to 6 segments. Projection never changes status codes or billing, and applies to data reads only: account, feedback, session status, monitor (other than deliveries), webhook and stream-compat reads return their bodies unchanged.
Set to 1 (or true) to apply the built-in compact preset: ids, url, text, created_at, lang, the engagement counts, the is_retweet/is_reply/is_quote flags, conversation ids, the author's id/username/name/followers_count/verification, and the quoted or retweeted tweet's id/url/author username. The preset trims what it recognises and leaves alone what it would empty, so it never turns a body into {}. Combine with fields to add paths on top of the preset. Typically cuts a tweet page by 70 to 90 percent for LLM tool callers.
Response
Fetch a profile's extended About / professional details.
Changes
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