Show HN: I reverse engineered X to Read Threads without Any Account as Articles https://ift.tt/gwxYs32

Show HN: I reverse engineered X to Read Threads without Any Account as Articles Hi fellow hackers, I'm Ved, I came across the pain point of having a reader that could provide threads as articles after scrolling them many times and missing the context of the original info shared. To solve my itch I decided to build a thread reader without Ads(all existing sol. were full of them), since X/Twitter API was very pricey, I did some reverse engineering to convert rendered X.com/twitter pages to an API and host it in a VM (which obv. was dead cheap). All of your data is saved in LocalStorage. Including your comments and saved threads(there is a known issue with Linux and MacOS browsers i think). Code is open-sourced at : https://ift.tt/AGhya8X App is available at : https://unlace.app There are two views inbuilt in app https://ift.tt/OpW38ci... https://ift.tt/oSr3EnH... Reverse Engineered X API is available at https://ift.tt/uleG0F9... Meanwhile you can enter any twitter thread url on https://unlace.app to get a clean and read friendly article. Here's the stack(if anyone's interested): - NextJS - FastAPI - Selenium That's all folks, looking towards a productive feedback session. December 30, 2024 at 09:24AM