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Read an X (Twitter) Article

Automatically read an X (Twitter) Article on x.com. Read a long-form X (Twitter) Article from its link: title, author, publish date, cover image, engagement counts, and the full body in reading order, with its headings, lists, quotes, links, images, videos and code blocks. Links of the form x.com/<handle>/article/<id> open signed in or out; signed out, X shows no engagement counts, so those come back empty. Links of the form x.com/i/article/<id> open only for a signed-in account.

Input

url required

Link to the X Article: https://x.com/<handle>/article/<id> (opens signed in or out) or https://x.com/i/article/<id> (opens only for a signed-in account).

Output

url required

Canonical link, https://x.com/<handle>/article/<tweet_id>, whichever link shape was passed.

text required

The body as plain text: each block's text, or a code block's markdown, separated by a blank line. Media are left out.

title required
author required
blocks required

The body in reading order, one entry per paragraph, heading, list item, quote or embed.

tweet_id required

Id of the post the article is published as; the id in the canonical link.

article_id required

Id of the article itself; the id in an x.com/i/article/<id> link.

published_at required

ISO 8601 time the article was first published.

likes optional

null when signed out: X shows no counts to visitors.

views optional

null when signed out or when X shows no view count.

quotes optional

null when signed out.

replies optional

null when signed out.

retweets optional

Reposts without quotes. X's displayed repost count is retweets + quotes. null when signed out.

bookmarks optional

null when signed out.

cover_image_url optional

FAQ

Read a long-form X (Twitter) Article from its link: title, author, publish date, cover image, engagement counts, and the full body in reading order, with its headings, lists, quotes, links, images, videos and code blocks. Links of the form x.com/<handle>/article/<id> open signed in or out; signed out, X shows no engagement counts, so those come back empty. Links of the form x.com/i/article/<id> open only for a signed-in account.
Ask an AI agent connected to Reduck to run reduck/x.com/get_article, or run it from a terminal with the Reduck CLI: npx @reduck-ai/cli@latest run --script reduck/x.com/get_article
You do not need one. "Read an X (Twitter) Article" drives the real x.com pages in a browser, so it works whether or not x.com offers an API for this.
Required: url.
It returns url, text, likes, title, views, author, blocks, quotes, replies, retweets, tweet_id, bookmarks, article_id, published_at, cover_image_url.
No. It only uses pages of x.com that are reachable without signing in.
It only reads. It looks things up on x.com and changes nothing there.
Ask an AI agent connected to Reduck to run reduck/x.com/get_article, or run it from a terminal with the Reduck CLI: npx @reduck-ai/cli@latest run --script reduck/x.com/get_article
It is part of Reduck's official curated catalogue.

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