timeline-viewing

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Switch between For You / Following timelines, auto-scroll and collect posts, scrape timeline data, and export as JSON. Use when users want to browse, collect, or export tweets from their X timeline.

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Timeline Viewing & Scraping

Browser console scripts for viewing, switching, and collecting posts from your X timeline.

Script Selection

Goal	File	Navigate to
Switch timeline, auto-scroll, export posts	`src/timelineViewer.js`	`x.com/home`
Scrape timeline posts into structured data	`src/timelineScraper.js`	`x.com/home`

Quick Start

Go to x.com/home
Open DevTools (F12) → Console
Paste src/timelineViewer.js → Enter
JSON file auto-downloads when complete

Configuration (`timelineViewer.js`)

const CONFIG = {
  timeline: 'for-you',       // 'for-you' or 'following'
  autoSwitch: true,           // Automatically switch to selected timeline
  collectPosts: true,         // Scroll and collect posts
  maxPosts: 100,              // Max posts to collect
  exportData: true,           // Auto-download JSON when done
  scrollDelay: 2000,          // ms between scroll actions
  delayBetweenActions: 1500, // ms between UI actions
  maxScrollRetries: 8,        // Empty scrolls before stopping
};

Available Functions

// timelineViewer.js
XActions.switchTo('for-you')     // Switch to For You timeline
XActions.switchTo('following')   // Switch to Following timeline
XActions.collect()               // Start collecting posts
XActions.export()                // Export collected posts as JSON
XActions.abort()                 // Stop collection

// timelineScraper.js
XActions.scrape({ maxPosts: 200 }) // Scrape with custom limit
XActions.results()                  // Get collected results
XActions.download()                 // Download as JSON

Output Data Structure

Each collected post includes:

Tweet ID, author, handle, avatar
Tweet text, timestamp
Likes, retweets, replies, views counts
Media URLs (if any)
Is retweet / is quote tweet

Notes

Timeline data is only what's visible/scrolled in your browser session
for-you content is personalized; following shows only accounts you follow
Increase maxPosts for deeper scrapes (slower, more scroll rounds)
Different from twitter-scraping which targets specific profiles, not your feed

Related Skills

twitter-scraping — Scrape a specific user's profile or tweet history
analytics-insights — Analyze engagement metrics on your timeline
discovery-explore — Find trending content beyond your timeline