X News Crawler

Crawl X (Twitter) search results through a local CLI that wraps `abs` (agent-browser). Use when the user asks to scrape X posts by keyword, collect Top/Lates...

Use this skill to run one command and get structured X news JSON.

Prerequisites (Required)

Before any crawl command, run:

pnpm add -g agent-browser-stealth
pnpm approve-builds -g

Run Chrome with CDP on the regular profile before crawling:

/Applications/Google\ Chrome.app/Contents/MacOS/Google\ Chrome --remote-debugging-port=9333

Do not use --user-data-dir in that Chrome launch command.

Workflow

1. Run the CLI, not raw abs commands.
2. Use --mode hybrid by default: fetch top first, then latest, then sort by time and dedupe.
3. Read JSON output and summarize signal/noise for the user.

Commands

From repository root, run:

./bin/x-news-crawler --query "openclaw" --mode hybrid --since-hours 72 --limit 30 --output .tmp/openclaw-news.json

Quick probes:

./bin/x-news-crawler --query "openclaw" --mode top --limit 10
./bin/x-news-crawler --query "openclaw" --mode latest --since-hours 24 --limit 20
./bin/x-news-crawler --query "openclaw" --cdp 9333 --limit 20

Output Contract

The CLI returns JSON with:

• fetched_at
• query
• mode
• count
• warnings[]
• failed_sources[]
• rows[] with: source, datetime, status_url, user, text, replies, reposts, likes

Guardrails

• Prefer hybrid unless the user explicitly asks only top or latest.
• Keep since-hours small (24-168) to avoid stale content.
• Treat unverified rumor posts as low confidence even with high engagement.

Reference

See cli.md for full flags.