twitter-reader

twitter-reader is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from daymade/claude-code-skills. It costs 76 tokens per session (1,363 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A reader for posts and long-form Articles on Twitter/X, including their authors, metadata, engagement counts, and embedded images.

In plain words
What is it for?
It is for fetching individual posts, full Articles, images, author details, and engagement information from Twitter/X.
Why use it?
It makes public post content and attached media easier to retrieve when the original site is inconvenient to access.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Needs its repository: it runs a file that does not travel with it, so clone the repository first. The line is ✓ Saved: ./Clippings/2026-04-03-文章标题.md.

not rated 1.4krepo +14 today A scan Socket: passSnyk: warnSkillSpector: warn 76 tokens original MIT

Good fit It is for fetching individual posts, full Articles, images, author details, and engagement information from Twitter/X.

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About the project

Claude Code Skills Marketplace is a collection and marketplace of skills, plugins, agents, and instructions that extend Claude Code with specialized development workflows. It is for developers who want to install existing workflows or create, validate, and package their own Claude Code skills.

daymade/claude-code-skills · 1,384 stars · on GitHub

Install

Getting it into your agent

It runs from inside its repository, so the clone comes first — what it calls does not travel with the file alone.

Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/daymade/claude-code-skills
agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/daymade/claude-code-skills/twitter-reader

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Its marketplace also offers this one on its own, as the plugin twitter-reader/plugin install twitter-reader after adding the marketplace above.

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 twitter-reader

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/daymade/claude-code-skills/twitter-reader/github.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/daymade/claude-code-skills/twitter-reader)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/daymade/claude-code-skills/twitter-reader"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/daymade/claude-code-skills/twitter-reader/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>

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 twitter-reader

Your own site · 80×15
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/daymade/claude-code-skills/twitter-reader"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/daymade/claude-code-skills/twitter-reader.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>
Per session 76 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,363 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 1 finding. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe. Third-party audits
  • Socket pass 7 Apr 2026
  • Snyk warn 7 Apr 2026
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector warn 7 Sept 2026
SkillSpector: 2 findings, up to high

These are SkillSpector’s own severities. On a checked sample its high-severity flags on skills were ~96% false positives — a documented command, a public API, a “never do X” rule — so we show them as a caution to read, not a verdict. Why →

  • high Supply Chain · line 18
    Remote code is downloaded and executed. This bypasses code review and could introduce malicious code.
    Fix: Avoid downloading and executing remote scripts. Use trusted packages from PyPI/npm. If remote fetch is required, verify checksums and use HTTPS.
  • medium Data Exfiltration · line 18
    Data is being sent to an external URL. This could be legitimate telemetry or data exfiltration. Manual review is recommended.
    Fix: Verify the destination URL is trusted and necessary. Remove or replace with documented APIs. Ensure no secrets, tokens, or PII are transmitted.
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 $0.00076 $0.01363
Opus 5 $0.00038 $0.00681
Sonnet 5 $0.00015 $0.00273
Haiku 4.5 $0.00008 $0.00136

Measured 5d ago against content hash 4af644dba6f6, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

twitter-reader scanned grade A with 1 finding 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 5d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 3 executable files (scripts/fetch_article.py, scripts/fetch_tweet.py, scripts/fetch_tweets.sh), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

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.

Makes network callslowCapability

Not a fault in itself. Listed so you know the mod talks to something, and to what.

curl -sS --max-time 20 "https://api.fxtwitter.com/<user>/status/<id>" \
twitter-reader/SKILL.md · 181 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 181 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Twitter Reader

Fetch Twitter/X post and article content with full media support.

Reading a single post's text: fxtwitter first (2026-08-30)

For plain post text, prefer the fxtwitter mirror API — login-free, key-free, works direct, and returns the full note_tweet body in tweet.text (the full_text key does not exist; a 2,324-char long-form announcement came back complete):

curl -sS --max-time 20 "https://api.fxtwitter.com/<user>/status/<id>" \
  | python3 -c "import json,sys; t=json.load(sys.stdin)['tweet']; print(t['created_at']); print(t['text'])"

replies is a count, not the reply thread. For X Articles with images, use fetch_article.py below — fxtwitter does not carry article bodies.

For X Articles with images, use the new fetch_article.py script:

uv run --with pyyaml python scripts/fetch_article.py <article_url> [output_dir]

Example:

uv run --with pyyaml python scripts/fetch_article.py \
  https://x.com/HiTw93/status/2040047268221608281 \
  ./Clippings

This will:

  • Fetch structured data via twitter-cli (likes, retweets, bookmarks)
  • Fetch content with images via jina.ai API
  • Download all images to attachments/YYYY-MM-DD-AUTHOR-TITLE/
  • Generate complete Markdown with embedded image references
  • Include YAML frontmatter with metadata

Example Output

Fetching: https://x.com/HiTw93/status/2040047268221608281
--------------------------------------------------
Getting metadata...
Title: 你不知道的大模型训练:原理、路径与新实践
Author: Tw93
Likes: 1648

Getting content and images...
Images: 15

Downloading 15 images...
  ✓ 01-image.jpg
  ✓ 02-image.jpg
  ...

✓ Saved: ./Clippings/2026-04-03-文章标题.md
✓ Images: ./Clippings/attachments/2026-04-03-HiTw93-.../ (15 downloaded)

Alternative: Jina API (Text-only)

⚠️ Known reliability risk (2026-08-30 live tests): anonymous r.jina.ai access to x.com gets 403-globally-banned for hours when third-party users abuse the domain — the ban blocks every anonymous caller, then expires. Verified working again after expiry (anonymous fetch then returns post text), so treat Jina as intermittent, never a load-bearing path. The shared key in this repo is also currently out of balance (402 InsufficientBalanceError), which makes fetch_tweets.sh — it hard-requires JINA_API_KEY — unusable until recharged.

Read the full file on GitHub · 181 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. 5d ago First seen · 181 lines · 76 tokens per session scan A 4af644dba6f6

Subscribe to this mod's changes

twitter-reader is a skill published in the GitHub repository daymade/claude-code-skills (1,384 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 76 tokens to every session and 1,363 once invoked, about $0.0004 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 1 finding (makes network calls). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-09-03.

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