twitter-reader

⚠Review·Scanned 2/18/2026

This skill fetches Twitter/X post content via the jina.ai proxy and provides scripts/fetch_tweet.py and scripts/fetch_tweets.sh for single or batch retrieval. It executes shell curl calls (via subprocess.run and the shell script) and requires reading JINA_API_KEY to call https://r.jina.ai/{url}.

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Twitter Reader

Fetch Twitter/X post content without needing JavaScript or authentication.

Prerequisites

You need a Jina API key to use this skill:

  1. Visit https://jina.ai/ to sign up (free tier available)
  2. Get your API key from the dashboard
  3. Set the environment variable:
export JINA_API_KEY="your_api_key_here"

Quick Start

For a single tweet, use curl directly:

curl "https://r.jina.ai/https://x.com/USER/status/TWEET_ID" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer ${JINA_API_KEY}"

For multiple tweets, use the bundled script:

scripts/fetch_tweets.sh url1 url2 url3

What Gets Returned

  • Title: Post author and content preview
  • URL Source: Original tweet link
  • Published Time: GMT timestamp
  • Markdown Content: Full post text with media descriptions

Bundled Scripts

fetch_tweet.py

Python script for fetching individual tweets.

python scripts/fetch_tweet.py https://x.com/user/status/123 output.md

fetch_tweets.sh

Bash script for batch fetching multiple tweets.

scripts/fetch_tweets.sh \
  "https://x.com/user/status/123" \
  "https://x.com/user/status/456"

URL Formats Supported

  • https://x.com/USER/status/ID
  • https://twitter.com/USER/status/ID
  • https://x.com/... (redirects work automatically)

Environment Variables

  • JINA_API_KEY: Required. Your Jina.ai API key for accessing the reader API