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pxTwitter
A TwitFix-like solution written in TypeScript for Cloudflare Workers.
Embed videos, polls, and more on Discord, Telegram, and more! Just add px before twitter to make pxtwitter.com
... Or on Discord, send a normal Twitter link and type s/e/p to replace the domain with twittpr.com.
✔️ Embed Videos (Including Twitter videos and compatible external providers, such as YouTube)
✔️ Embed Poll results
✔️ Embed Quote Tweets (Including their media, if it doesn't conflict with the linked tweet)
✔️ Replace embedded t.co shortener with original links
✔️ Creates media/profile picture color-matching theme-color (looks great on Discord!)
✔️ Better privacy: We don't save tweets or their media (Outside of temporary Cloudflare caching for speed)
Here's a little chart comparing features to Twitter default embeds and other embedding services
| pxTwitter | Twitter default | vxTwitter (BetterTwitFix) | Twxtter (sixFix) | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Embed Tweets / Photos | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ |
| Embed Videos | ✔️ | ❌¹ | ✔️ | ✔️ |
| Embed Poll results | ✔️ | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ |
| Embed Quote Tweets | ✔️ | ❌ | ➖ Without Media | ➖ Without Media |
| Embed Multiple Images | ❌ | ➖ Discord Only³ | With c.vxtwitter.com | ❌ |
| Publicly accessible embed index | ❌² | N/A | ❌² | ✔️ |
| Replace t.co with original links | ✔️ | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ |
| Media-based embed colors on Discord | ✔️ | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ |
| Redirect to video file (wihout embed) | Coming soon! | ❌ | ❌ | ✔️ |
¹ Discord will attempt to embed Twitter's video player, but it is unreliable
² Neither pxTwitter or vxTwitter have a public embed ledger, for privacy reasons. vxTwitter still stores all responses in a database / JSON file controlled by the owner. pxTwitter by contrast relies on Cloudflare caching of responses: there is no link store accessible to the owner.
³ Discord uses a custom embed container for Twitter.com to enable multi-image, which is unfortunately not available to other websites.
Why pxTwitter is better to develop for and deploy
TwitFix and derivatives have quite a few dependencies you need to rely on. You need to set up a server somewhere, install Python, all its dependencies, then either set up youtube-dl (more resource intensive) or beg Twitter for API access, and optionally set up a database, otherwise it uses the file system to cache.
pxTwitter was written from the start as a lightweight, TypeScript-based Cloudflare Worker. Cloudflare Workers are completely free for up to 100,000 requests per day, per account. Cloudflare Workers are fast to set up and your script is distributed in their datacenters around the world for lower latency.
pxTwitter does not need a database nor a Twitter API key: It takes a similar approach to youtube-dl where it pretends to be a logged-out Twitter web user, fetching a guest token and making API requests from there. As far as I can tell, this basically means we have "unlimited" read-only access to Twitter's API, including things they don't expose in their public API, useful for polls and other features.
Deploy pxTwitter yourself
Clone the repo, install Node.js and run npm install in the repo directory. Copy wrangler.example.toml to wrangler.toml and add your Cloudflare account ID, and change the name of your worker if you need to. Authenticate with Cloudflare with npx wrangler login, then do npx wrangler publish (or npm run publish).
Once you're set up with your worker on *.workers.dev, add your worker to your custom domain.
Licensed under the permissive MIT license. Feel free to send a pull request!
Things to tackle in the future
- A subdomain to directly link to a tweet's image/video, without embeds (thanks @TheAppleFreak!)
- Combining multiple images together (would be outside CF Worker)
- Caching guest token (So we don't have to bother Twitter for one on every request)
Bugs or issues?
Feel free to open an issue, or ping me on Twitter and I'll see what I can do.