social-fetch

social-fetch is a skill for Claude Code from coreyhaines31/makerskills. It costs 205 tokens per session (1,902 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A tool that fetches a social-media post from its URL and returns its author, text, engagement counts, media links, and other details in a consistent format.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to retrieve posts from X, LinkedIn, Instagram, TikTok, Reddit, Bluesky, Mastodon, Threads, Hacker News, and similar platforms.
Why use it?
It removes the need to handle each social platform's URL format and response structure separately.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the makerskills plugin — 21 skills shipped together

not rated 803repo +31 6d ago A scan Socket: passSnyk: warnSkillSpector: pass 205 tokens original MIT

Good fit Use it to retrieve posts from X, LinkedIn, Instagram, TikTok, Reddit, Bluesky, Mastodon, Threads, Hacker News, and similar platforms.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/coreyhaines31/makerskills/social-fetch
Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

Any agent
npx skills add coreyhaines31/makerskills --skill social-fetch
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/coreyhaines31/makerskills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install makerskills, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 21 skills.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

agentmods badge for social-fetch

README.md
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Your own site
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Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.

agentmods 80×15 button for social-fetch

Your own site · 80×15
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Per session 205 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,902 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
  • Socket pass 6 Jul 2026
  • Snyk warn 6 Jul 2026
How audits are shown
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00205 $0.01902
Opus 5 $0.00102 $0.00951
Sonnet 5 $0.00041 $0.00380
Haiku 4.5 $0.00020 $0.00190

Measured 11d ago against content hash 99fd2b2d2591, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

social-fetch scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 11d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

skills/social-fetch/SKILL.md · 128 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 128 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

/social-fetch — Pull any social post by URL

Normalized fetcher for social posts across platforms. Detects platform from URL, tries strategies in order, returns the same JSON shape regardless of source.

Step 1 — Detect platform

URL pattern Platform
x.com/<user>/status/<id> or twitter.com/<user>/status/<id> x (Twitter)
linkedin.com/posts/<slug> or linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:<id> linkedin
linkedin.com/in/<handle> (profile, recent activity) linkedin-profile
instagram.com/p/<id> or instagram.com/reel/<id> instagram
tiktok.com/@<user>/video/<id> tiktok
bsky.app/profile/<handle>/post/<rkey> bluesky
reddit.com/r/<sub>/comments/<id>/... reddit
<mastodon-instance>/@<user>/<id> (e.g. mastodon.social, hachyderm.io) mastodon
threads.net/@<user>/post/<id> threads
news.ycombinator.com/item?id=<id> hn
youtube.com/watch?v=<id> or youtu.be/<id> → defer to watch-video

If the URL doesn't match any pattern, ask the user what platform it is.

Step 2 — Pick strategy chain

Read references/strategies.md for the per-platform strategy chain. Each platform has 2–5 strategies tried in order.

Key principles:

  • Free strategies first (direct APIs, agent-browser)
  • Paid only as fallback (ScrapeCreators / Apify) — and only if the env key is set
  • Bluesky / Mastodon / HN / Reddit are free + reliable (public APIs)
  • X / LinkedIn / Instagram / TikTok / Threads need paid or scraping fallback for full data

Step 3 — Execute strategy

For each strategy in the chain:

  1. Try it
  2. If success: parse → normalize → return
  3. If failure (404, 402, auth wall, empty response): note the failure and try the next strategy

After exhausting the chain, return a clear error: which strategies were tried, why each failed, and what's needed to unlock (e.g., "Add $SCRAPECREATORS_API_KEY for X — see references/auth-keys.md").

Read the full file on GitHub · 128 lines

Files

What ships with it

3 files beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 11d ago First seen · 128 lines · 205 tokens per session scan A 99fd2b2d2591

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social-fetch is a skill published in the GitHub repository coreyhaines31/makerskills (803 stars, last pushed 6d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 205 tokens to every session and 1,902 once invoked, about $0.0010 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

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