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It would be cool to have a bot for this, that answer with the output

FYI this won't work until this PR gets merged because Twitter/X now requires an additional magical token to be sent to the tweet fetching/syndication endpoint ⚠️

Luckily folks from Vercel reverse-engineered it as part of their react-tweet package: https://github.com/vercel/react-tweet/blob/a292ca7/packages/react-tweet/src/api/fetch-tweet.ts#L27-L31

Great point!

I couldn't resist extending it to support Bluesky posts too, so here it is https://www.val.town/v/vladimyr/postEval 🎉

I had to change the URL format slightly to include the domain and also made it so that you can simply prepend https://vladimyr-posteval.web.val.run/ in front of the post URL. To give you an example:

1. using the original @stevekrouse's tweet: https://twitter.com/stevekrouse/status/1687468019880964097 https://vladimyr-posteval.web.val.run/https://twitter.com/stevekrouse/status/1687468019880964097 which will redirect you to: https://vladimyr-posteval.web.val.run/twitter.com/stevekrouse/status/1687468019880964097
2. using my Bluesky post: https://bsky.app/profile/vladimyr.bsky.social/post/3kmjorjmtae2u https://vladimyr-posteval.web.val.run/https://bsky.app/profile/vladimyr.bsky.social/post/3kmjorjmtae2u which will redirect you to: https://vladimyr-posteval.web.val.run/bsky.app/profile/vladimyr.bsky.social/post/3kmjorjmtae2u

To make it even easier to play with it here is a bookmarklet that will eval post you are currently viewing: postEval source code:

window.location = new URL(`/${document.URL}`, "https://vladimyr-posteval.web.val.run/");

Since my bookmarklet code got sanitized:

javascript:(function()%7Bwindow.location%20%3D%20new%20URL(%60%2F%24%7Bdocument.URL%7D%60%2C%20%22https%3A%2F%2Fvladimyr-posteval.web.val.run%2F%22)%3B%7D)()%3B

This is awesome!!!

And your code is so simple

Thanks! When it comes to code my personal philosophy is unless it looks and reads like haiku - it sucks 😁 Coincidentally it fits nicely into the following narrative: https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Brian_Kernighan#:~:text=Everyone%20knows%20that,edition%2C%20chapter%202.