x-tweet-fetcher

What This Skill Does

The x-tweet-fetcher is a powerful, zero-dependency skill designed for the OpenClaw agent ecosystem. It enables your agent to seamlessly retrieve content from X (formerly Twitter) without the need for cumbersome API keys, OAuth tokens, or login sessions. By leveraging the FxTwitter public API as a proxy, the skill extracts structured data from standard tweets, long-form "Twitter Blue" posts, and complex X Articles. It provides a comprehensive response payload including text content, engagement metrics like likes, retweets, and views, and full-text article blocks. Because it is written using only Python standard libraries, it ensures maximum compatibility and portability across any environment where your OpenClaw agent runs.

Installation

To install this skill, use the OpenClaw command line interface provided in your terminal:

clawhub install openclaw/skills/skills/hjw21century/x-tweet-fetcher

No additional configuration files, environment variables, or API key management are required. Simply install and run.

Use Cases

This skill is perfect for agents focused on social media aggregation, research, and content curation. Use it to build an agent that archives viral threads, summarizes high-quality long-form X Articles into summaries, or performs sentiment analysis based on public tweet data. It is an ideal tool for developers who need to pull tweet content for training data, reporting, or dashboarding without violating platform terms of service regarding complex web scraping.

Example Prompts

1. "Fetch the content of this tweet at https://x.com/user/status/123456 and provide a bulleted summary of the main points."
2. "Extract the full text and word count of the X Article linked here: https://x.com/user/status/789012. Is it longer than 2000 words?"
3. "Grab the latest tweet from this URL and display the engagement stats, specifically the view count and number of bookmarks."

Tips & Limitations

• Zero Dependency Architecture: The skill intentionally avoids browser automation tools to keep your agent's resource footprint low.
• Limitations on Replies: Currently, the skill can report the total count of replies but cannot fetch individual reply content. If you require deep thread analysis, you would need to combine this with other scraping tools.
• Resilience: The tool is entirely dependent on the availability of the FxTwitter public API. If the proxy service experiences downtime, the skill will be unable to fetch data until the service recovers.
• Privacy: Only public, non-deleted tweets are accessible. The tool does not handle private accounts or restricted content.