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Getting started with the recent Post counts endpoint

This quick start guide will help you make your first request to the recent Post counts endpoint using Postman, a graphical tool that allows you to send HTTP requests.

If you would like to see sample code in different programming languages, please visit our X API v2 sample code GitHub repository. 

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Steps to build a recent Post counts request

Step one: Start with a tool or library

There are several different tools, code examples, and libraries that you can use to make a request to this endpoint, but we are going to use the Postman tool here to simplify the process.

To load X API v2 Postman collection into your environment, please click on the following button:

Once you have the X API v2 collection loaded in Postman, navigate to the Post counts > Recent Post counts request.

Step two: Authenticate your request

To properly make a request to the X API, you need to verify that you have permission. To do so with this endpoint, you must authenticate your request with the OAuth 2.0 App-Only authentication methods.

You must add your keys and tokens, specifically the App Access Token (also known as the App-only Bearer Token) to Postman. You can do this by selecting the environment named “X API v2” in the top-right corner of Postman and adding your keys and tokens to the “initial value” and “current value” fields (by clicking the eye icon next to the environment dropdown).

This variable will automatically be pulled into the request’s authorization tab if you’ve done this correctly.  

Step three: Create a query

Each recent Post counts request requires a singlequery. For this example, we are going to use a query that matches on Posts posted by the @XDevelopers account. For this query we use the from: operator and set it to XDevelopers (case insensitive):

from:XDevelopers

In Postman, navigate to the “Params” tab and enter this ID, or a string of Post IDs separated by a comma, into the “Value” column of the ids parameter.

Step four (optional): Specify the granularity of the request

If you click the ‘Send’ button after step three, you will get the default recent Post counts: by hour for the last seven days. If you want to get recent Post counts by day, you will have to add the granularity parameter with a value of day.

In Postman, navigate to the “Params” tab and day into the “Value” column of the granularity parameter.

You should now see the following URL next to the “Send” button:

https://api.x.com/2/tweets/counts/recent?query=from%3AXDevelopers&granularity=day

Step five: Make your request and review your response

Once you have everything set up, hit the “Send” button and you will receive the following response:

{
   "data": [
       {
           "end": "2021-06-16T00:00:00.000Z",
           "start": "2021-06-15T00:00:00.000Z",
           "tweet_count": 0
       },
       {
           "end": "2021-06-17T00:00:00.000Z",
           "start": "2021-06-16T00:00:00.000Z",
           "tweet_count": 1
       },
       {
           "end": "2021-06-18T00:00:00.000Z",
           "start": "2021-06-17T00:00:00.000Z",
           "tweet_count": 2
       },
       {
           "end": "2021-06-19T00:00:00.000Z",
           "start": "2021-06-18T00:00:00.000Z",
           "tweet_count": 0
       },
       {
           "end": "2021-06-20T00:00:00.000Z",
           "start": "2021-06-19T00:00:00.000Z",
           "tweet_count": 0
       },
       {
           "end": "2021-06-21T00:00:00.000Z",
           "start": "2021-06-20T00:00:00.000Z",
           "tweet_count": 0
       },
       {
           "end": "2021-06-22T00:00:00.000Z",
           "start": "2021-06-21T00:00:00.000Z",
           "tweet_count": 1
       },
       {
           "end": "2021-06-23T00:00:00.000Z",
           "start": "2021-06-22T00:00:00.000Z",
           "tweet_count": 2
       }
   ],
   "meta": {
       "total_tweet_count": 6
   }
}