twitter-scraping

twitter-scraping is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from nirholas/XActions. It costs 74 tokens per session (1,138 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A browser-based tool for collecting information from X, formerly known as Twitter, without using its official API. It can gather profiles, posts, searches, hashtags, threads, media, and other account data, then save the results as JSON or CSV files.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to collect profile details, follower and following lists, posts, search results, hashtag activity, threads, media links, bookmarks, notifications, direct messages, likes, and viral posts.
Why use it?
It removes the need to copy X data manually or obtain API access. It uses a logged-in browser session, so it requires an X authentication cookie.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Part of the xactions plugin — 50 skills, 1 command, 8 agents, 1 MCP server shipped together

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.

agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/nirholas/xactions/twitter-scraping
Any agent
npx skills add nirholas/XActions --skill twitter-scraping
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/nirholas/XActions

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install xactions, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 50 skills, 1 command, 8 agents, 1 MCP server.

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-scraping

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/nirholas/xactions/twitter-scraping.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/nirholas/xactions/twitter-scraping)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/nirholas/xactions/twitter-scraping"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/nirholas/xactions/twitter-scraping.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 74 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,138 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00074 $0.01138
Opus 5 $0.00037 $0.00569
Sonnet 5 $0.00015 $0.00228
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00114

Measured 5d ago against content hash 297aa9ba9f10, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

twitter-scraping 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 5d 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/twitter-scraping/SKILL.md · 99 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 99 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Twitter Scraping

Auth Setup

All scrapers require an auth_token cookie from x.com (DevTools -> Application -> Cookies -> copy auth_token value).

Node.js Scraper API

npm install xactions -- all functions from src/scrapers/index.js.

import { createBrowser, createPage, loginWithCookie, scrapeProfile } from 'xactions';

const browser = await createBrowser();
const page = await createPage(browser);
await loginWithCookie(page, AUTH_TOKEN);

const profile = await scrapeProfile(page, 'nichxbt');
await browser.close();
Function Purpose
scrapeProfile(page, username) Profile data (bio, followers, following)
scrapeFollowers(page, username, {limit}) Follower list
scrapeFollowing(page, username, {limit}) Following list
scrapeTweets(page, username, {limit}) User's tweets
searchTweets(page, query, {limit}) Search results
scrapeHashtag(page, tag, {limit}) Hashtag tweets
scrapeThread(page, tweetUrl) Thread tweets
scrapeMedia(page, username, {limit}) Media URLs
exportToJSON(data, path) / exportToCSV(data, path) File export

Browser Console Scripts

Standalone IIFEs -- paste into DevTools console on x.com. No dependencies.

Script File Navigate to
Download video src/scrapers/videoDownloader.js Tweet with video
Export bookmarks src/scrapers/bookmarkExporter.js x.com/i/bookmarks
Unroll thread src/scrapers/threadUnroller.js Any thread
Find viral tweets src/scrapers/viralTweets.js User profile
Scrape followers scripts/scrapeFollowers.js x.com/USER/followers
Scrape following scripts/scrapeFollowing.js x.com/USER/following
Scrape profile scripts/scrapeProfile.js User profile
Scrape search scripts/scrapeSearch.js Search results
Scrape hashtag scripts/scrapeHashtag.js x.com/hashtag/TAG
Scrape likes scripts/scrapeLikes.js x.com/USER/likes
Scrape likers scripts/scrapeLikers.js Any tweet
Scrape replies scripts/scrapeReplies.js Any tweet
Scrape media scripts/scrapeMedia.js User media tab
Scrape DMs scripts/scrapeDMs.js x.com/messages
Scrape notifications scripts/scrapeNotifications.js x.com/notifications
Scrape list scripts/scrapeList.js Any X List
Scrape bookmarks scripts/scrapeBookmarks.js x.com/i/bookmarks
Export to CSV scripts/exportToCSV.js After any scrape
Link scraper scripts/linkScraper.js Any timeline
Quote retweets scripts/scrapeQuoteRetweets.js Any tweet

Read the full file on GitHub · 99 lines

Files

What ships with it

1 file 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 · 99 lines · 74 tokens per session scan A 297aa9ba9f10

Subscribe to this mod's changes

twitter-scraping is a skill published in the GitHub repository nirholas/XActions (502 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 74 tokens to every session and 1,138 once invoked, about $0.0004 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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