Social Fetch

What it does

When your agent uses it

• /social-fetch <url
• Fetch this tweet
• Fetch this post
• What does this LinkedIn say

Example prompts

• “/social-fetch <url,”
• “fetch this tweet,”
• “fetch this post,”
• “/social-fetch”

Requirements

• A credential in SCRAPECREATORS_API_KEY
• A credential in APIFY_API_TOKEN

Workflow steps

6 steps, taken from the step headings in SKILL.md.

1. 1Detect platform
2. 2Pick strategy chain
3. 3Execute strategy
4. 4Normalize output
5. 5Optional enrichments
6. 6Cache (optional)

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit cc31579. It shows what the files ask for, not the result of running them.

• Tool permissions

  Pre-approves nothing: there is no allowed-tools line, so your agent's usual permission prompts apply.

  From allowed-tools in the SKILL.md frontmatter.

• Runs code

  No scripts in the folder and no shell commands in SKILL.md (its code samples are json).

  From the folder's file list and the shell code blocks in SKILL.md.

• Network

  Hosts in commands or code, which the agent is likely to contact:

  • x.com

  From URLs in SKILL.md, links to its own repository left out.

• Credentials

  Names these keys or tokens, usually read from environment variables:

  • SCRAPECREATORS_API_KEY
  • APIFY_API_TOKEN

  From names ending in _API_KEY, _TOKEN, _SECRET, _KEY or _PASSWORD in SKILL.md.

Context cost

Social Fetch loads about 1.9k tokens when it runs, and up to ~6.5k if it reads all its reference files. Until then it costs about 222 tokens; SKILL.md has 730 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it

~222

When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches

~1.9k

With references · SKILL.md plus every file in references/, read only if the agent opens them

~6.5k

Estimates: characters ÷ 4, the usual rule of thumb; real counts depend on the model's tokenizer. Scripts and assets cost tokens only if the agent reads them.

Safety

Automated static check — not a guarantee. Review scripts before installing. It scans the text of SKILL.md for risky patterns (piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files, hidden Unicode, destructive commands); files beside SKILL.md are not scanned.

SKILL.md

The full file from coreyhaines31/makerskills at commit cc31579, republished under its MIT licence (© coreyhaines31). 730 words, ~1,864 tokens.

name

social-fetch

description

When you or another skill needs to fetch the content of a social media post by URL — tweet, X thread, LinkedIn post, Instagram post, TikTok video, Bluesky post, Reddit thread, Mastodon status, Threads post, Hacker News thread. Returns normalized structured data (author, posted_at, text, engagement counts, media URLs, replies if requested) regardless of platform. Tries strategies in order: direct API (Bluesky, Mastodon, HN, Reddit), agent-browser with modal dismissal (LinkedIn, X preview), Wayback Machine (older posts), paid APIs (ScrapeCreators / Apify — only if env keys present). Triggers on "/social-fetch <url>," "fetch this tweet," "fetch this post," "what does this LinkedIn say," "read this thread," "pull this post." Used by deep-research (citing specific posts), jab-hook (inspiration account analysis), business-brainstorm (competitor / operator commentary).

metadata.version

0.1.2

{
  "platform": "x",
  "url": "https://x.com/example/status/1234567890",
  "fetched_at": "2026-06-17T14:35:00Z",
  "raw_source": "scrapecreators",
  "author": {
    "handle": "@example",
    "name": "the user Ganim",
    "verified": true
  },
  "posted_at": "2026-06-17T16:53:00Z",
  "text": "The 80/20 of a useful AI second brain: ...",
  "media": [],
  "engagement": {
    "likes": 51,
    "reposts": 13,
    "replies": 9,
    "bookmarks": 7,
    "views": 32700
  },
  "is_thread": true,
  "thread": [],
  "replies": []
}

© coreyhaines31, MIT. Rendered from Markdown: HTML in the file is shown as text, images as links, and headings moved down two levels. Raw file

Files

SKILL.md and 3 other files (references) in skills/social-fetch of coreyhaines31/makerskills.

• SKILL.md
• references/auth-keys.md
• references/output-schema.md
• references/strategies.md

Open the folder on GitHubat commit cc31579