twitter-x-scraping SKILL.md skillA
twitter-x-scraping from swyxio/skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add swyxio/skills/twitter-x-scraping@git:20260528.839ae03Pins git:20260528.839ae03 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- swyxio/skills
- Path
twitter-x-scraping/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 2
- Latest version
- git:20260528.839ae03, committed May 28, 2026
- First version recorded
- May 27, 2026
- Size
- 13,980 bytes
- Repository stars
- 194
- License
- MIT
Use when scraping public Twitter/X timelines or lists through Nitter-style mirrors with axios and Playwright fallback, including anti-bot challenge handling and pagination limits.
Collected from public GitHub. Every version is saved exactly as it was and never changes. Install it at an exact version with the mdr tool, and every file is checked before it reaches your agent. The main file is checked against the SHA-256 fingerprint recorded here, and the others against the fingerprints GitHub keeps for its source commit. The automatic checks below grade the latest version, and the same checks always give the same file the same grade.
What the file says
# Skill: Scraping Nitter.net for Tweets
This codebase scrapes [nitter.net](https://nitter.net) — an open-source Twitter frontend — to collect tweets from a list or profile within a time window. The technique works without a Twitter API key.
## Core Methodology
### 1. URL Structure
Nitter mirrors Twitter's URL layout:
| Target | Nitter path |
|--------|------------|
| Twitter List | `/i/lists/<listId>` |
| User Profile | `/<handle>` |
| Paginated | append `?cursor=<cursor>` |
### 2. Fetch Strategy: axios → Playwright fallback
Start with plain HTTP (`axios`). If nitter serves an anti-bot challenge page (detected by the string `"Verifying your request"` in the HTML), permanently switch to a headed Playwright/Chrome session for the rest of the run.
```ts
// challengeSolver.ts — detect challenge
const CHALLENGE_MARKER = 'Verifying your request';
export function isChallengePage(html: string): boolean {
return html.includes(CHALLENGE_MARKER);
}
// scrapeNitterList.ts — switch modes on detection
if (isChallengePage(html)) {
useBrowserMode = true;
const browserHtml = await fetchWithBrowser(url, debug);
return { html: browserHtml, url };
}
```
…Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add swyxio/skills/twitter-x-scraping@sha256:f6992fc7332d7b72The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260528.839ae03, which is what most people want. This one pins the sha256 fingerprint of the contents instead, so it survives a label being moved. Either way the exact version is written to mdr.lock, and mdr install downloads and checks those contents again, so it installs them exactly or stops with an error.
[](https://markdownregistry.com/a/art_6kriwv3fgoab6nhs)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 2 versions of this file, between May 27, 2026 and May 28, 2026, about one every day.
| version | committed | commit | size | audit | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| git:20260528.839ae03 latest | 2026-05-28 | 839ae03 | 13,980 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260527.4abeec6 | 2026-05-27 | 4abeec6 | 9,163 B | A | view |
Audit of the latest version
- pass: Frontmatter block present
- pass: Frontmatter declares a name
- pass: Frontmatter declares a description
- pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (13980 bytes)
- pass: No zero-width or bidi control characters
- pass: No instruction hidden inside an HTML comment
- pass: No link to an exfiltration or paste host
- pass: No credential-shaped string
- pass: No instruction to send local credentials anywhere
- pass: No text hidden with inline styles
- pass: No prompt-injection phrasing
- pass: No curl or wget piped into a shell
- pass: No recursive delete of root, home or parent
- pass: No instruction to read or print local credentials
- pass: No base64 blob over 200 characters
- pass: No link to a raw IP address
- pass: No script tag
Source
swyxio/skills · 194 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-11-03 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_6kriwv3fgoab6nhs GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=swyxio/skills/twitter-x-scraping GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/f6992fc7332d7b72385d930985457ece5130e7f6f96978d267063459baa63b9b
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Guides: the SKILL.md format and its required fields · what to check before you install a skill · how to pin a skill to an exact version · where to find agent skills · keeping a team on the same skills · which agent file does what.