Setup & Installation
openclaw skills install @hjw21century/x-tweet-fetcher
Or with the ClawHub CLI, for registry-managed skill folders outside a full OpenClaw workspace:
npx clawhub install x-tweet-fetcher
What This Skill Does
Fetches tweets, long-form tweets, and X Articles from X/Twitter without requiring login or API keys. Uses the FxTwitter public API to retrieve full text, engagement stats, and article content. Single Python file, no external dependencies.
No API key registration or Twitter account needed, unlike the official Twitter API which requires developer approval and has strict rate limits.
When to use it
- Archiving a tweet thread for offline reference
- Extracting full text of a paywalled long tweet
- Pulling X Article content into a research document
- Getting engagement stats for a specific tweet
- Feeding tweet content into an AI agent pipeline
Example Workflow
Here's how your AI assistant might use this skill in practice.
INPUT
User asks: fetch the full text and stats from https://x.com/user/status/123456
AGENT
- 1Call fetch_tweet() with the provided URL
- 2Receive structured JSON response from FxTwitter API
- 3Check is_article flag to determine content type
- 4Extract tweet text or article full_text accordingly
- 5Return text content along with likes, retweets, and views
OUTPUT
Full tweet or article text with engagement stats as structured JSON