Polymarket tweet count API

A single call to /api/v1/meta/elon returns real_counter: 44 (Polystrike, p50 11.5s from post to count), polymarket_xtracker_counter: 41 (settlement oracle) and polymarket_ui_counter: 41 (Polymarket page), with settlement_delta: 3, display_delta: 3 and internal_delta: 0 already computed. Full field docs live in the Elon endpoints and Cruz endpoints reference.

The free tier is genuinely free — no key, 100 requests/hour per IP, last 15 tweets, no forecasts. Pro ($79/mo) lifts the limit to 10,000 requests/hour, unmasks the is_counted classification, and turns on Monte Carlo forecasts and EV signals. The forecasts are a pace model, not a promise — read the honest limits on the Elon Musk tweet counter page before you trade on them.

The full API is described in a machine-readable OpenAPI document at polystrike.xyz/openapi.json. Feed it to any OpenAPI code generator to produce a typed client in Python, TypeScript, Go, Rust, or whatever your stack speaks — no hand-written HTTP glue.

import json, urllib.request

req = urllib.request.Request(
    "https://polystrike.xyz/api/v1/meta/elon",
    headers={"User-Agent": "polystrike-example"},  # required
)
for event in json.load(urllib.request.urlopen(req)):
    print(
        event["real_counter"],
        event["polymarket_xtracker_counter"],
        event["settlement_delta"],
    )

const res = await fetch(
  "https://polystrike.xyz/api/v1/meta/elon",
  { headers: { "User-Agent": "polystrike-example" } },  // required
);
for (const ev of await res.json()) {
  console.log(
    ev.real_counter,
    ev.polymarket_xtracker_counter,
    ev.settlement_delta,
  );
}

Both hit the same free endpoint and loop the same fields. A User-Agent header is required — requests without one are rejected.

XTracker is Polymarket's settlement oracle and updates roughly every 5 minutes; it has no documented public API. Polystrike tracks X directly — a 1-second poll for @elonmusk, 5 seconds for other tracked accounts, with a measured 11.5s median from post to count — and returns both the oracle's number and its own count in one response. For settlement, XTracker is the authority — its number is final. For watching the count move, this API is the faster window. See the gap live on the Elon Musk tweet counter.