| name | x-timeline-digest |
| description | Build a deduplicated digest from X (Twitter) For You and Following timelines using bird. Outputs a payload for upstream delivery. |
| homepage | https://github.com/seandong |
| metadata | {"openclaw":{"emoji":"🐦","requires":{"bins":["bird"]}}} |
x-timeline-digest
Overview
This skill uses bird to read X/Twitter timelines and build a high-signal digest.
Sources:
- For You timeline
- Following timeline
What it does:
- Fetch recent tweets
- Filter incrementally (avoid reprocessing)
- Deduplicate (ID + near-duplicate text)
- Rank and trim
- Generate a Chinese digest
- Output a structured payload
Delivery (Telegram, email, etc.) is NOT handled here.
Upstream OpenClaw workflows decide how to notify users.
Configuration
All config is read from: skills.entries["x-timeline-digest"].config
Config fields
| Name | Type | Default | Description |
|---|
| intervalHours | number | 6 | Interval window in hours |
| fetchLimitForYou | number | 100 | Tweets fetched from For You |
| fetchLimitFollowing | number | 60 | Tweets fetched from Following |
| maxItemsPerDigest | number | 25 | Max tweets in one digest |
| similarityThreshold | number | 0.9 | Near-duplicate similarity threshold |
| statePath | string | ~/.openclaw/state/x-timeline-digest.json | State file path |
Dependencies
- bird must be installed and available in PATH
- bird must already be authenticated (cookie login)
- Read-only usage
Usage
1. Basic (Raw JSON)
Run the digest generator to get a clean, deduplicated JSON payload:
node skills/x-timeline-digest/digest.js
2. Intelligent Digest (Recommended)
To generate the "Smart Brief" (Categorized, Summarized, Denoised):
- Run the script:
node skills/x-timeline-digest/digest.js > digest.json
- Read the prompt template:
read skills/x-timeline-digest/PROMPT.md
- Send the prompt to your LLM, injecting the content of
digest.json where {{JSON_DATA}} is.
Note: The script automatically applies heuristic filtering (removes "gm", ads, short spam) before outputting JSON.
Bird Commands Used
For You timeline:
bird home -n --json
Following timeline:
bird home --following -n --json
State Management
State is persisted to statePath.
State structure
{
"lastRunAt": "2026-02-01T00:00:00+08:00",
"sentTweetIds": {
"123456789": "2026-02-01T00:00:00+08:00"
}
}
Rules
- Tweets already in sentTweetIds must not be included again
- After a successful run:
- Update lastRunAt
- Add pushed tweet IDs to sentTweetIds
- Keep IDs for at least 30 days
Processing Pipeline
- Fetch from For You and Following
- Incremental filter using lastRunAt
- Hard deduplication by tweet id
- Near-duplicate merge using text similarity
- Rank and trim to maxItemsPerDigest
- Summarize into Chinese digest
Output
The skill returns one JSON object:
{
"window": {
"start": "2026-02-01T00:00:00+08:00",
"end": "2026-02-01T06:00:00+08:00",
"intervalHours": 6
},
"counts": {
"forYouFetched": 100,
"followingFetched": 60,
"afterIncremental": 34,
"afterDedup": 26,
"final": 20
},
"digestText": "中文摘要内容",
"items": [
{
"id": "123456",
"author": "@handle",
"createdAt": "2026-02-01T02:15:00+08:00",
"text": "tweet text",
"url": "https://x.com/handle/status/123456",
"sources": ["following"]
}
]
}
