An automated pipeline for extracting Twitter/X followers and following lists with optional email enrichment using specialized Apify actors.
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1. ClawHub CLI
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npx clawhub@latest install twitter-x-apify-actors
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What is Twitter/X Apify Actors?
This skill provides a high-reliability pipeline for gathering targeted audience data from Twitter/X. By leveraging specialized Apify actors, it streamlines the process of extracting usernames from profile links, scraping follower or following lists, and optionally enriching that data with contact emails.
It is a core component for marketers and developers building outreach automations using Openclaw Skills. The skill ensures data normalization, making the output ready for direct integration with CRM systems or automation platforms like n8n and Zapier, bypassing the manual effort usually required for social media lead collection.
Twitter/X Apify Actors Use Cases
- Extracting follower lists from competitor Twitter/X profiles for targeted social media outreach.
- Building a database of niche influencers by scraping their following lists to identify industry leaders.
- Automating lead generation workflows by enriching scraped usernames with professional email addresses for cold email campaigns.
- Generating structured JSON payloads for seamless integration into n8n or custom API endpoints using Openclaw Skills.
How Twitter/X Apify Actors Works
- The skill parses a provided X/Twitter URL or @username to ensure it is compatible with the Apify API.
- It initializes the follower or following actor (ID: bIYXeMcKISYGnHhBG) based on the user-defined collection type and limit.
- The skill monitors the actor execution and retrieves the raw profile data.
- If email enrichment is enabled, it passes the extracted usernames to the email actor (ID: mSaHt2tt3Z7Fcwf0o).
- The results from both actors are merged and normalized into a consistent row-based format.
- A final report containing summary metrics and a detailed user list is returned to the user.
Twitter/X Apify Actors Setup
To use this within your Openclaw Skills environment, you must have an active Apify account and API token. Set the token as an environment variable or provide it as a CLI argument.
# Recommended: Set environment variable
export APIFY_TOKEN='your_apify_api_token_here'
# Run the full pipeline with email enrichment
python3 scripts/apify_twitter_actors.py run-pipeline \
--target 'https://x.com/elonmusk' \
--collect-type followers \
--limit 100 \
--include-emails
Twitter/X Apify Actors Data Schema & Taxonomy
The skill organizes extracted data into a structured JSON format suitable for databases or spreadsheets. The metadata includes:
| Field | Description |
|---|---|
| targetUsername | The source profile handle extracted from the link. |
| collectType | Indicates if the data represents followers, following, or both. |
| totalCollected | The total number of profile records retrieved. |
| emailsFound | The count of profiles successfully enriched with an email address. |
| rows | An array of objects containing username, name, email, sourceType, and collectedAt. |
Twitter/X Apify Actors Advanced Features
- Support for username extraction from various URL formats (x.com, twitter.com, or direct handles).
- Ability to toggle email enrichment to optimize for speed or data depth within Openclaw Skills.
- Configurable actor IDs allowing power users to substitute default scrapers with custom Apify implementations.
- Built-in validation for collection types and pagination limits to prevent API waste.
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