Quick start

Getting started with the search Spaces endpoint

This quick start guide will help you make your first request to the search Spaces endpoint with a set of specified fields using Postman.

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

Prerequisites

To complete this guide, you will need to have a set of keys and tokens to authenticate your request. You can generate these keys and tokens by following these steps:

Sign up for a developer account and receive approval.
Create a Project and an associated developer App in the developer portal.
Navigate to your App's “Keys and tokens” page to generate the required credentials. Make sure to save all credentials in a secure location.

Steps to build a search Spaces 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:

Add X API v2 to Postman

Once you have the X API v2 collection loaded in Postman, navigate to the Spaces folder and find the "Search Spaces" 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, this endpoint requires you to authenticate your request with either OAuth 2.0 App-Only or OAuth 2.0 Authorization Code with PKCE authentication methods.

For simplicity's sake, we will utilize OAuth 2.0 App-Only with this request, but you will need to use one of the other authentication methods if you'd like to request private metrics or Spaces from a private user.

To utilize OAuth 2.0 App-Only, 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).

These variables will automatically be pulled into the request's authorization tab if you've done this correctly.

Step three: create a search query

This endpoint accepts text as a search query. Unlike other search endpoints, it does not accept operators, grouping, and logical operators. For this exercise, we will use “hello” as a simple query.

In Postman, navigate to the "Params" tab and enter this user ID into the "Value" column of the id parameter.

Key	Value
query	hello

Step four: Identify and specify which fields you would like to retrieve

If you click the "Send" button after step three, you will receive the ID of the Spaces and its state, which are the only Space object fields returned by default in your response.

If you would like to receive additional fields, you will have to specify them in your request with the space.fields or expansions parameters.

For this exercise, we will requested three additional sets of fields from different objects:

The additional title field in the primary Spaces object.
The full user object of the specified creator ID
The additional user.created_at field in the associated user object.

In Postman, navigate to the “Params” tab and add the following key:value pair to the “Query Params” table:

Key	Value	Returned fields
space.fields	title	creator_id
expansions	creator_id	includes.users.id, includes.users.name, includes.users.username
user.fields	created_at	includes.users.created_at

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

https://api.x.com/2/spaces/search?query=hello&space.fields=creator_id&expansions=creator_id&user.fields=created_at

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": [
    {
        "creator_id": "2244994945",
        "id": "1zqKVXPQhvZJB",
        "title": "Hello world 👋",
        "state": "Running"
   },
   "includes": {
       "users": [
           {
               "created_at": "2013-12-14T04:35:55.000Z",
               "name": "Twitter Dev",
               "id": "2244994945",
               "username": "TwitterDev"
           }
       ]
   }
]
}

Next steps

Customize your request using the API Reference