X-Helper Skill

• Queries public Twitter data via free APIs (no API key needed)
  • Profile: fxtwitter
  • Tweet: vxtwitter
• Pure function library in scripts/x_helper.py, invoked via python3 -c

When to use (mandatory)

Any time the user asks for live data about a Twitter/X user or tweet — follower count, profile description, tweet text, like/retweet count, whether one tweet quoted another — you MUST call the relevant x_helper.py function via python3 -c rather than answering from memory. Twitter data changes constantly; cached/training-data answers are stale and incorrect. Triggers: "how many followers does elonmusk have", "what does @vitalik's bio say", "did @alice quote tweet X", "show tweet 12345 text", "follower count".

Functions

x_helper.py

• lookup(username) -> {"username", "followers", "following", "tweets", "likes", "description"}

  • username: Twitter username (without @)

• get_tweet(tweet_id, username="i") -> {"tweet_id", "username", "text", "likes", "retweets", "replies", "quote": {...} | None}

  • tweet_id: tweet ID
  • quote: nested object {"tweet_id", "username", "text"} if this tweet quotes another, else None

• has_quoted(username, target_tweet_id, quote_tweet_id) -> {"username", "target_tweet_id", "quoted": bool, "quote_tweet_id": str | None}

  • username: expected quote author (without @)
  • target_tweet_id: the tweet that should be quoted
  • quote_tweet_id: the tweet claimed to be the quote

Limitations

• No timeline endpoint available — cannot list a user's recent tweets
• engagement_rate calculation not supported (requires recent tweet list)
• has_quoted requires the caller to supply the quote_tweet_id (cannot scan timeline)

Failure handling

If lookup() / get_tweet() / has_quoted() raises an exception (fxtwitter unavailable, network error, 5xx, etc.), the upstream API is down. Do NOT retry more than once — the script already attempts a fallback internally. Report the failure to the user with the original error message and stop. Spamming retries wastes calls and won't fix an upstream outage.

Examples

cd <path-to-this-skill>/scripts && python3 -c "
from x_helper import lookup
print(lookup('elonmusk'))
"

cd <path-to-this-skill>/scripts && python3 -c "
from x_helper import get_tweet
print(get_tweet('20'))
"

cd <path-to-this-skill>/scripts && python3 -c "
from x_helper import has_quoted
print(has_quoted('somequoter', '1234567890', '9876543210'))
"

Rules

1. Parse $ARGUMENTS and call lookup(username).
2. Respond in the user's language.
3. Usernames must be real values — never fabricate or use mock data.