twitter-cli 0.4.3

A CLI for Twitter/X — feed, bookmarks, and user timeline in terminal

twitter-cli

A terminal-first CLI for Twitter/X: read timelines, bookmarks, and user profiles without API keys.

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English | 中文

English

Features

Read:

• Timeline: fetch for-you and following feeds
• Bookmarks: list saved tweets from your account
• Search: find tweets by keyword with Top/Latest/Photos/Videos tabs
• Tweet detail: view a tweet and its replies
• List timeline: fetch tweets from a Twitter List
• User lookup: fetch user profile, tweets, likes, followers, and following
• JSON output: export any data for scripting
• Optional scoring filter: rank tweets by engagement weights

Write:

• Post: create new tweets and replies
• Delete: remove your own tweets
• Like / Unlike: manage tweet likes
• Retweet / Unretweet: manage retweets
• Bookmark: favorite/unfavorite

Auth & Anti-Detection:

• Cookie auth: use browser cookies or environment variables
• Full cookie forwarding: extracts ALL browser cookies for true browser fingerprint
• TLS fingerprint impersonation: curl_cffi with Chrome 133 JA3/HTTP2
• x-client-transaction-id header generation
• Request timing jitter to avoid pattern detection
• Proxy support via TWITTER_PROXY environment variable

Installation

# Recommended: uv tool (fast, isolated)
uv tool install twitter-cli

# Alternative: pipx
pipx install twitter-cli

Install from source:

git clone [e-mail]:jackwener/twitter-cli.git
cd twitter-cli
uv sync

Quick Start

# Fetch home timeline (For You)
twitter feed

# Fetch Following timeline
twitter feed -t following

# Enable ranking filter explicitly
twitter feed --filter

Usage

# Feed
twitter feed --max 50
twitter feed --json > tweets.json
twitter feed --input tweets.json

# Bookmarks
twitter favorites
twitter favorites --max 30 --json

# Search
twitter search "Claude Code"
twitter search "AI agent" -t Latest --max 50
twitter search "机器学习" --json

# Tweet detail (view tweet + replies)
twitter tweet 1234567890
twitter tweet https://x.com/user/status/1234567890

# List timeline
twitter list 1539453138322673664

# User
twitter user elonmusk
twitter user-posts elonmusk --max 20
twitter likes elonmusk --max 30
twitter followers elonmusk --max 50
twitter following elonmusk --max 50

# Write operations
twitter post "Hello from twitter-cli!"
twitter post "reply text" --reply-to 1234567890
twitter delete 1234567890
twitter like 1234567890
twitter unlike 1234567890
twitter retweet 1234567890
twitter unretweet 1234567890
twitter favorite 1234567890
twitter unfavorite 1234567890

Authentication

twitter-cli uses this auth priority:

1. Environment variables: TWITTER_AUTH_TOKEN + TWITTER_CT0
2. Browser cookies (recommended): auto-extract from Chrome/Edge/Firefox/Brave

Browser extraction is recommended — it forwards ALL Twitter cookies (not just auth_token + ct0), making requests indistinguishable from real browser traffic.

After loading cookies, the CLI performs lightweight verification. Commands that require account access fail fast on clear auth errors (401/403).

Proxy Support

Set TWITTER_PROXY to route all requests through a proxy:

# HTTP proxy
export TWITTER_PROXY=http://127.0.0.1:7890

# SOCKS5 proxy
export TWITTER_PROXY=socks5://127.0.0.1:1080

Using a proxy can help reduce IP-based rate limiting risks.

Configuration

Create config.yaml in your working directory:

fetch:
  count: 50

filter:
  mode: "topN"          # "topN" | "score" | "all"
  topN: 20
  minScore: 50
  lang: []
  excludeRetweets: false
  weights:
    likes: 1.0
    retweets: 3.0
    replies: 2.0
    bookmarks: 5.0
    views_log: 0.5

rateLimit:
  requestDelay: 2.5     # base delay between requests (randomized ×0.7–1.5)
  maxRetries: 3          # retry count on rate limit (429)
  retryBaseDelay: 5.0    # base delay for exponential backoff
  maxCount: 200          # hard cap on fetched items

Filter behavior:

• Default behavior: no ranking filter unless --filter is passed
• With --filter: tweets are scored/sorted using config.filter

Scoring formula:

score = likes_w * likes
      + retweets_w * retweets
      + replies_w * replies
      + bookmarks_w * bookmarks
      + views_log_w * log10(max(views, 1))

Mode behavior:

• mode: "topN" keeps the highest topN tweets by score
• mode: "score" keeps tweets where score >= minScore
• mode: "all" returns all tweets after sorting by score

Best Practices (Avoiding Bans)

• Use a proxy — set TWITTER_PROXY to avoid direct IP exposure
• Keep request volumes low — use --max 20 instead of --max 500
• Don't run too frequently — each startup fetches x.com to initialize anti-detection headers
• Use browser cookie extraction — provides full cookie fingerprint
• Avoid datacenter IPs — residential proxies are much safer

Troubleshooting

• No Twitter cookies found

  • Ensure you are logged in to x.com in a supported browser.
  • Or set TWITTER_AUTH_TOKEN and TWITTER_CT0 manually.

• Cookie expired or invalid (HTTP 401/403)

  • Re-login to x.com and retry.

• Twitter API error 404

  • This can happen when upstream GraphQL query IDs rotate.
  • Retry the command; the client attempts a live queryId fallback.

• Invalid tweet JSON file

  • Regenerate input using twitter feed --json > tweets.json.

Development

# Install dev dependencies
uv sync --extra dev

# Lint + tests
uv run ruff check .
uv run pytest -q

Project Structure

twitter_cli/
├── __init__.py
├── cli.py
├── client.py
├── auth.py
├── config.py
├── constants.py
├── filter.py
├── formatter.py
├── serialization.py
└── models.py

Use as AI Agent Skill

twitter-cli ships with a SKILL.md so AI agents can execute common X/Twitter workflows.

Claude Code / Antigravity

# Clone into your project's skills directory
mkdir -p .agents/skills
git clone [e-mail]:jackwener/twitter-cli.git .agents/skills/twitter-cli

# Or copy SKILL.md only
curl -o .agents/skills/twitter-cli/SKILL.md \
  https://raw.githubusercontent.com/jackwener/twitter-cli/main/SKILL.md

OpenClaw / ClawHub

Install from ClawHub:

clawhub install twitter-cli

After installation, OpenClaw can call twitter-cli commands directly.

中文

功能概览

读取:

• 时间线读取：支持 for-you 和 following
• 收藏读取：查看账号书签推文
• 搜索：按关键词搜索推文，支持 Top/Latest/Photos/Videos
• 推文详情：查看推文及其回复
• 列表时间线：获取 Twitter List 的推文
• 用户查询：查看用户资料、推文、点赞、粉丝和关注
• JSON 输出：便于脚本处理

写入:

• 发推：发布新推文和回复
• 删除：删除自己的推文
• 点赞 / 取消点赞
• 转推 / 取消转推
• 收藏 / 取消收藏：favorite/unfavorite

认证与反风控:

• Cookie 认证：支持环境变量和浏览器自动提取
• 完整 Cookie 转发：提取浏览器中所有 Twitter Cookie
• TLS 指纹伪装：curl_cffi Chrome 133 JA3/HTTP2
• x-client-transaction-id 请求头生成
• 请求时序随机化（jitter）
• 代理支持：TWITTER_PROXY 环境变量

安装

# 推荐：uv tool
uv tool install twitter-cli

使用指南

# 时间线
twitter feed
twitter feed -t following
twitter feed --filter

# 收藏
twitter favorites

# 搜索
twitter search "Claude Code"
twitter search "AI agent" -t Latest --max 50

# 推文详情
twitter tweet 1234567890

# 列表时间线
twitter list 1539453138322673664

# 用户
twitter user elonmusk
twitter user-posts elonmusk --max 20
twitter likes elonmusk --max 30
twitter followers elonmusk
twitter following elonmusk

# 写操作
twitter post "你好，世界！"
twitter post "回复内容" --reply-to 1234567890
twitter delete 1234567890
twitter like 1234567890
twitter unlike 1234567890
twitter retweet 1234567890
twitter unretweet 1234567890
twitter favorite 1234567890
twitter unfavorite 1234567890

认证说明

认证优先级：

1. 环境变量：TWITTER_AUTH_TOKEN + TWITTER_CT0
2. 浏览器提取（推荐）：Chrome/Edge/Firefox/Brave 全量 Cookie 提取

推荐使用浏览器提取方式，会转发所有 Twitter Cookie，让请求和真实浏览器完全一致。

代理支持

设置 TWITTER_PROXY 环境变量即可：

export TWITTER_PROXY=http://127.0.0.1:7890
# 或 SOCKS5
export TWITTER_PROXY=socks5://127.0.0.1:1080

使用代理可以降低 IP 维度的风控风险。

筛选算法

只有在传入 --filter 时才会启用筛选评分；默认不筛选。

评分公式：

score = likes_w * likes
      + retweets_w * retweets
      + replies_w * replies
      + bookmarks_w * bookmarks
      + views_log_w * log10(max(views, 1))

模式说明：

• mode: "topN"：按分数排序后保留前 topN 条
• mode: "score"：仅保留 score >= minScore 的推文
• mode: "all"：按分数排序后全部保留

常见问题

• 报错 No Twitter cookies found：请先登录 x.com 或手动设置环境变量。
• 报错 Cookie expired or invalid：Cookie 过期，重新登录后重试。
• 报错 Twitter API error 404：通常是 queryId 轮换，重试即可。

使用建议（防封号）

• 使用代理 — 设置 TWITTER_PROXY，避免裸 IP 直连
• 控制请求量 — 用 --max 20 而不是 --max 500
• 避免频繁启动 — 每次启动都会访问 x.com 初始化反检测请求头
• 使用浏览器 Cookie 提取 — 提供完整 Cookie 指纹
• 避免数据中心 IP — 住宅代理更安全
• Cookie 仅在本地使用，不会被本工具上传

作为 AI Agent Skill 使用

twitter-cli 提供了 SKILL.md，可让 AI Agent 更稳定地调用本工具。

Claude Code / Antigravity

# 克隆到项目 skills 目录
mkdir -p .agents/skills
git clone [e-mail]:jackwener/twitter-cli.git .agents/skills/twitter-cli

# 或仅下载 SKILL.md
curl -o .agents/skills/twitter-cli/SKILL.md \
  https://raw.githubusercontent.com/jackwener/twitter-cli/main/SKILL.md

OpenClaw / ClawHub

通过 ClawHub 安装：

clawhub install twitter-cli