How to Find X Users by Topic with Airtop

Identifying and capturing relevant user profiles from X manually is a tedious and error-prone task, wasting valuable developer and analyst hours with inconsistent results. Traditional scraping methods often fall short, lacking robustness against dynamic loading, API rate limits, and authentication hurdles such as OAuth, Captcha, and two-factor authentication (2FA).

Airtop's automation, built for Airtop Studio, solves these challenges by using real browser sessions to reliably navigate X, seamlessly handling login and authentication layers including OAuth and 2FA, and extracting structured user profile data at scale. This approach ensures accurate, reliable, and consistent results with clearly formatted, structured outputs, ready for pipeline and networking activities.

Who is this Automation for?

• Developers seeking structured profile data from X

• Automation engineers building scalable scraping workflows

• Revenue operations teams growing qualified leads

• Technical marketers tracking influential users on trending topics

Key Benefits

• Reliable real browser sessions for dynamic X pages

• Built-in authentication handling (OAuth, 2FA, Captcha)

• Structured JSON output for integration and analysis

• No-code, ready-to-use automation within Airtop Studio

Use Cases

• Identifying industry influencers for outreach campaigns

• Generating targeted lead lists by trending hashtags or topics

• Real-time monitoring of competitor followers and interactions

• Building targeted ad audiences through structured user data extraction

Getting Started with the Find X Users by Topic Automation

Quickly initiate this automation to build user lists effortlessly in Airtop Studio.

How the Find X Users by Topic Automation Works

The automation launches a secure, real browser session directly within Airtop Studio, authenticates your X session (handling OAuth and 2FA seamlessly), then automatically monitors and extracts user profiles related to your specified topic or hashtag. Extracted data such as usernames, bios, follower counts, and engagement statistics are structured into standardized JSON formats for immediate use in downstream processes or analytics.

What You'll Need

• Airtop Studio (free account available)

• An active X account with valid login credentials

• Target topic or hashtags defined clearly

Setting Up the Automation

1. Launch Airtop Studio and open the Find X Users by Topic automation.

2. Click "Start the session" to initialize the automation.

3. Once the session loads fully, run the automation to begin the extraction.

Customize the Automation

Easily refine the automation to match specific project requirements using Airtop Studio:

• Adjust data points extracted from each X profile (followers, bio, location).

• Set custom extraction intervals to align with your campaign schedules.

• Define conditional filters like minimum follower count or engagement levels.

• Integrate post-processing steps such as deduplication or data enrichment APIs directly within the Airtop workflow.

Automation Best Practices

• Regularly update authentication credentials for secure continuous operation.

• Use precise topics or hashtags to retrieve highly relevant, targeted user profiles.

• Schedule runs strategically during peak X activity times for richer data.

• Ensure compliance with X terms of service through moderate request volumes.