Twitter Summary

Scrape a public Twitter/X profile via Nitter front-ends and return a compact JSON listing of tweets, replies, and retweets within a time window.

Two scrapers are included:

• playwright-twitter-summary.ts — uses Playwright for full browser rendering (more reliable)
• quick-twitter-summary.ts — uses linkedom for lightweight HTML parsing (no browser needed)

Prerequisites

The wrapper auto-installs Playwright if missing (logs to /tmp/twitter-playwright-install.log).

For the quick scraper:

cd /workspace && bun add linkedom

Usage

Using the wrapper script:

/workspace/.pi/skills/twitter-summary/run <handle> [hours] [output.json]

<handle> is required. No default user handle is configured in the scripts.

Examples:

# Fetch last 16 hours for an explicit handle
/workspace/.pi/skills/twitter-summary/run <handle> 16 /tmp/twitter_fetch.json

# Direct Playwright invocation
bun /workspace/.pi/skills/twitter-summary/playwright-twitter-summary.ts --handle=<handle> --hours=24

# Quick (no browser) invocation
bun /workspace/.pi/skills/twitter-summary/quick-twitter-summary.ts --handle=<handle> --hours=12

Output

JSON with handle, instance, count, and items array. Each item has:

• date — ISO 8601 timestamp
• type — tweet, reply, or retweet
• text — Tweet content
• url — Link to the tweet on the Nitter instance

Notes

• The scrapers try several public Nitter instances and use the first that responds.
• Coverage varies by instance; combining outputs from multiple instances often yields the best results.
• Network restrictions or anti-bot protections may affect results.
• Logs are written to stderr; JSON output goes to stdout.
• A log file is written to /tmp/twitter-summary.log when using the wrapper.