Check whether one X user follows another · Twitter / X API
Return the directional follow relationship between two X accounts — whether the source follows the target and vice versa — identified by user IDs or screen names. Useful for verifying connections and detecting one-way follows.
Using ChatGPT, Claude Code or another client? See the setup steps
curl https://api.unifapi.com/x/friendships/show \ -H "Authorization: Bearer $UNIFAPI_KEY"
Parameters
- source_idquery
- target_idquery
- source_screen_namequery
- target_screen_namequery
This operation is part of the Twitter / X API in the social platforms category. It uses the same Bearer token, request tracing, error model, and billing envelope as every UnifAPI endpoint, so agents can switch between platforms without custom per-vendor glue code.
Use it when a workflow needs Twitter / X public data alongside other social networks, but should still keep one API key, one account balance, and one predictable JSON contract.
Common agent workflows
- Resolve a public Twitter / X identity into structured profile metadata for enrichment agents.
- Refresh creator, company, or account snapshots without managing source-specific response shapes.
- Give an AI agent a stable Twitter / X data source without building a per-platform integration.
- Normalize Twitter / X responses into the same UnifAPI envelope used across the catalog.
Unified envelope, platform-native fields
- Lookup responses return one canonical object in `data` with stable identifiers, source URLs where available, and platform-specific metadata normalized into predictable JSON.
- The `billing.records_charged` field reports the charged billable-record quantity for the successful response.
- A not-found or invalid-input condition uses the unified UnifAPI error shape, so callers do not need special handling for each source platform.
Response status codes
Billing
This operation charges 1 credit per billable record, with a 1 credit ($0.001) operation minimum. Public responses include billing metadata with credits charged, records charged, and remaining workspace balance. Incorrect Credit deductions caused by platform failures can be restored as billing corrections.
Errors and retries
Authentication, validation, rate-limit, not-found, and provider errors use the unified UnifAPI error format. Agents should log `request_id`, retry only retryable failures, and treat invalid API keys, disabled keys, and expired keys as the same public `unauthorized` error type.
Fields in the data object
A successful Check whether one X user follows another call returns one data object with these fields.
- source_idstring
- source_usernamestring
- target_idstring
- target_usernamestring
- followingboolean
- followed_byboolean
- rawany
Agents & Skills built on Twitter / X
You rarely call Check whether one X user follows another by hand. These prebuilt agents and skills already read Twitter / X data inside Claude or Codex — start from one of them, or call this endpoint yourself.
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