Twitter reader

Skill nicepkg/ai-workflow/workflows/content-creator-workflow/.claude/skills/twitter-reader

Fetch Twitter/X post content by URL using jina.ai API to bypass JavaScript restrictions. Use when Claude needs to retrieve tweet content including author, timestamp, post text, images, and thread replies. Supports individual posts or batch fetching from x.com or twitter.com URLs.From its SKILL.md

Install

npx -y skills add nicepkg/ai-workflow --skill twitter-reader

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SKILL.md

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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:

Visit https://jina.ai/ to sign up (free tier available)
Get your API key from the dashboard
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

What ships with it: 3 files

2.9 KB alongside SKILL.md, 2 of them executable

scripts/

fetch_tweet.pyruns1.9 KB
fetch_tweets.shruns862 B

.security-scan-passed181 B