Follow a user: POST /client/follow

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Follow a user

Follow an account from your account.

POST/client/follow

Your account, your proxy, your risk.

Account actions run with the session cookie of your own X account and go out through your own proxy. Use only accounts you control and follow X's rules. Automated posting, following or liking can get the account limited or suspended; that is between you and X. Treat the cookie like a password: it gives full access to the account. Trial keys cannot call these endpoints.

Parameters

cookiebody · string · required
Cookie header of your own logged-in X session. Must contain auth_token and ct0; guest_id is used when present.
proxybody · string · required
Your proxy, format http://user:pass@host:port. The requests to X go out through it. Used only for this request.
user_idbody · string · optional
Numeric ID of the account to follow. Either user_id or username is required.
usernamebody · string · optional
Handle of the account to follow. Used instead of user_id when set.

Name	In	Type	Required	Description
cookie	body	string	yes	Cookie header of your own logged-in X session. Must contain auth_token and ct0; guest_id is used when present.
proxy	body	string	yes	Your proxy, format http://user:pass@host:port. The requests to X go out through it. Used only for this request.
user_id	body	string	no	Numeric ID of the account to follow. Either user_id or username is required.
username	body	string	no	Handle of the account to follow. Used instead of user_id when set.

Body parameters are sent as a JSON object with Content-Type: application/json.

Example request

curl -X POST 'https://api.twittrapi.com/client/follow' \
  --header 'X-API-KEY: YOUR_API_KEY' \
  --header 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  --data '{"cookie":"auth_token=...; ct0=...","proxy":"http://user:pass@host:port","username":"XDevelopers"}'

import httpx

resp = httpx.post(
    "https://api.twittrapi.com/client/follow",
    headers={"X-API-KEY": "YOUR_API_KEY"},
    json={
        "cookie": "auth_token=...; ct0=...",
        "proxy": "http://user:pass@host:port",
        "username": "XDevelopers",
    },
    timeout=60,
)
print(resp.status_code, resp.json())

const resp = await fetch("https://api.twittrapi.com/client/follow", {
  method: "POST",
  headers: { "X-API-KEY": process.env.TWITTRAPI_API_KEY, "Content-Type": "application/json" },
  body: JSON.stringify({
    cookie: "auth_token=...; ct0=...",
    proxy: "http://user:pass@host:port",
    username: "XDevelopers",
  }),
});
console.log(resp.status, await resp.json());

Base URL https://api.twittrapi.com, key in the X-API-KEY header. The SDKs do not wrap account actions, so the examples are plain HTTP calls.

Response

Wrapper built by the API: {"status_code": <X status>, "response": "<X response body as a string>"}. The HTTP status is X's status when X answered 4xx or 5xx, otherwise 200. Parse response a second time to get X's JSON.

Simple format (?format=simple or X-Response-Format: simple): {data: User}: the account you followed, the same User object as the read endpoints. When X reports an error inside the wrapper (for example a tweet that is already liked), the usual wrapper is returned unchanged. Schema.

Example response coming soon.

In the raw format, field names and nesting come from X and can change without notice. See Response format; the simple format keeps a fixed schema.

Errors

400The body is not valid JSON.
422A required field is missing (including proxy), an ID is not numeric, or the cookie has no ct0. Also: the account is suspended, X rejected the session, or the text was already posted.
407The proxy is unreachable or timed out.
400Neither user_id nor username is set, or the user could not be found.
X'sAny status X answers with (for example 401, 403, 404): passed through with X's body.

Errors every endpoint can return (401, 402, 403, 404, 408, 409, 429, 5xx), and which of them are charged, are on the Errors page. Calls that fail with 400, 408, 409 or a 5xx error are refunded.