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/social-fetch — Pull any social post by URL · coreyhaines31 | DecimalAI

researchby coreyhaines31

/social-fetch — Pull any social post by URL

coreyhaines31/social-fetch

Source coreyhaines31/makerskills ↗License MIT

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), Waybac

SkillScore77Maintained

Automatic

Data Engineer pack

Last verified 8/20/2026

What it changes

Passed 15 of 20 test cases with the skill, and 5 of 20 without it.

Without skill27%

With skill77%

Checks it passed that the model alone missed

The cache lookup is skipped when fetching thread data.
The request routes processing to the `watch-video` skill.
The platform field in the output JSON is set to `threads`.

and 9 more in the full report

11 fixed6 passed either way5 still failing0 broke

Pass-rate lift: +50 pp
Tokens: +113%
Agent turns: 0%
Response time: -2%

Model gemini-3.6-flashMeasured 8/20/2026v117 of 22 cases passed with skill · 20 comparable

Tokens, turns and time describe resource use, not a dollar price.

Use this skill

Save it into your project's skills folder. Claude Code picks it up in its next session.

curl -fsSL --create-dirs -o .claude/skills/coreyhaines31-social-fetch/SKILL.md https://app.decimal.ai/s/coreyhaines31-social-fetch/SKILL.md

Want it pinned and updatable? pip install "decimalai>=0.15", then decimalai skills add coreyhaines31-social-fetch, and start Claude Code with claude --plugin-dir "$(git rev-parse --show-toplevel)/.agents"

1 · One-time — install the CLI (docs ↗)

pip install "decimalai>=0.15"

2 · Get the skill — writes .agents/skills/coreyhaines31-social-fetch/ and pins it in .decimal/skills.lock

decimalai skills add coreyhaines31-social-fetch

No CLI? Get the same file — curl · raw file

curl -fsSL --create-dirs -o .claude/skills/coreyhaines31-social-fetch/SKILL.md https://app.decimal.ai/s/coreyhaines31-social-fetch/SKILL.md

Raw file: /s/coreyhaines31-social-fetch/SKILL.md ↗ · machine-readable summary at /s/coreyhaines31-social-fetch.json ↗

Safety checks: 3 of 3 passed

Code scan CleanIntent PassedContent Clean

See it in action

One of 11 test cases the skill fixed. Same model, same prompt, with and without the skill.

1 of 11

Prompt

Can you generate a full timestamped audio transcript and summary key takeaways for this YouTube video: `https://youtube.com/watch?v=v9123456789`?

What was checked, without and with the skill
Checked	Without skill	With skill
The response defers processing to the `watch-video` skill.	Missed	Passed

case-22 · gemini-3.6-flash · 8/20/2026 · answers are capped and redacted

What's inside

The instructions your model reads when the skill loads.

SKILL.md120 lines4 files

/social-fetch — Pull any social post by URL

Normalized fetcher for social posts across platforms. Detects platform from URL, tries strategies in order, returns the same JSON shape regardless of source.

Step 1 — Detect platform

URL pattern	Platform
`x.com/<user>/status/<id>` or `twitter.com/<user>/status/<id>`	x (Twitter)
`linkedin.com/posts/<slug>` or `linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:<id>`	linkedin
`linkedin.com/in/<handle>` (profile, recent activity)	linkedin-profile
`instagram.com/p/<id>` or `instagram.com/reel/<id>`	instagram
`tiktok.com/@<user>/video/<id>`	tiktok
`bsky.app/profile/<handle>/post/<rkey>`	bluesky
`reddit.com/r/<sub>/comments/<id>/...`	reddit
`<mastodon-instance>/@<user>/<id>` (e.g. mastodon.social, hachyderm.io)	mastodon
`threads.net/@<user>/post/<id>`	threads
`news.ycombinator.com/item?id=<id>`	hn
`youtube.com/watch?v=<id>` or `youtu.be/<id>`	→ defer to `watch-video`

If the URL doesn't match any pattern, ask the user what platform it is.

Step 2 — Pick strategy chain

Read references/strategies.md for the per-platform strategy chain. Each platform has 2–5 strategies tried in order.

Key principles:

Free strategies first (direct APIs, agent-browser)
Paid only as fallback (ScrapeCreators / Apify) — and only if the env key is set
Bluesky / Mastodon / HN / Reddit are free + reliable (public APIs)
X / LinkedIn / Instagram / TikTok / Threads need paid or scraping fallback for full data

Step 3 — Execute strategy

For each strategy in the chain:

Try it
If success: parse → normalize → return
If failure (404, 402, auth wall, empty response): note the failure and try the next strategy

After exhausting the chain, return a clear error: which strategies were tried, why each failed, and what's needed to unlock (e.g., "Add $SCRAPECREATORS_API_KEY for X — see references/auth-keys.md").

Track record

Benchmark

15 / 20

test cases passed, vs 5 / 20 without

Adoption

Users: 1
Times used: 12

Safety and source details

SkillSafety

✓ 3 of 3 passed

Code scan15 of 15 checks clean

0 critical · 0 warning · 0 info — scanner v4 — 8/3/2026

View 15 scanner checks

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IntentSafe

LLM judge · does the skill do what it claims

ContentClean

LLM judge · policy & harmful-content review

Source

Imported

coreyhaines31 / makerskills

skills/social-fetch/SKILL.md

View on GitHub ↗

License MITImported 10/9/2026Version v1Bundled 3 files

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What's inside

/social-fetch — Pull any social post by URL

Step 1 — Detect platform

Step 2 — Pick strategy chain

Step 3 — Execute strategy

Track record

Benchmark

Adoption

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