What is twitter-reader?

A tool for retrieving the content of posts from Twitter, now called X, by using their links. It can return the author, posting time, text, images, and thread replies without loading the site's JavaScript interface.

Use it to fetch one or more posts from x.com or twitter.com links for reading or analysis. It needs a Jina API key.

It provides readable post content when normal page fetching is blocked by the site's web interface or requires sign-in. It can also collect several posts in one batch.

twitter-reader — Skill for Claude Code by nicepkg/ai-workflow

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 nicepkg/ai-workflow --skill twitter-reader

Clone the repo

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/nicepkg/ai-workflow

Made for: Claude Code.

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.

README.md

[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/nicepkg/ai-workflow/twitter-reader/github.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/nicepkg/ai-workflow/twitter-reader)

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.

Your own site · 80×15

<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/nicepkg/ai-workflow/twitter-reader"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/nicepkg/ai-workflow/twitter-reader.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>

Per session 56 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.

When invoked 433 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.

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.

Model	Per session	Once invoked
Fable 5.1	$0.00056	$0.00433
Opus 5.5	$0.00022	$0.00173
Sonnet 5.5	$0.00011	$0.00087
Haiku 4.5	$0.00006	$0.00043

Measured 1mo ago against content hash b3b1f6b15e0a, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, 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 1mo ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 2 executable files (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.

For a single tweet, use curl directly:

Origin

Copies of this mod

1 near-identical copy found in the catalogue:

twitter-reader — 100% identical, 0 lines differ

workflows/content-creator-workflow/.claude/skills/twitter-reader/SKILL.md · 73 lines

What it actually says

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

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.

1mo ago First seen · 73 lines · 56 tokens per session scan A b3b1f6b15e0a

Subscribe to this mod's changes

twitter-reader is a skill published in the GitHub repository nicepkg/ai-workflow (286 stars, last pushed 8mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 56 tokens to every session and 433 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5.5. 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 2026-08-30.

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