It adds copy and quote buttons to each tweet on nitter instances (eg: xcancel).
Each button copies the tweet and formats it into commonmark markdown as used by Lemmy. Copy includes links to any attached videos or images.
Copy Demonstration
| It’s FOSS | @Itsfoss |
|---|---|
Sep 7, 2026 11:33 AM UTC |
Two weeks after X Corp’s legal letter forced the project offline, Nitter says it will continue.
| [Ӿ] [ℕ] [🏛] |
Quote Demonstration
Two weeks after X Corp’s legal letter forced the project offline, Nitter says it will continue.
- Source: @Itsfoss via 🐦 Twitter.
The formatted markdown is then copied to your clipboard.
You can install it using a userscript browser extension such as Firemonkey or violentmonkey.
The user script is available at Greasyfork.
https://greasyfork.org/en/scripts/595501-xtractor
To add additonal nitter instances simply add the following line;
// @match *://nitter.net/*
Except with the url of the instance of your choice.
Developing tools related to Twitter is a waste of time. They are actively hostile to developers now
I agree in principle although I consider this script to be a tool of adversarial interoperability; it’s purpose is to extricate information from twitter to lemmy. Also it doesn’t actually interact with twitter directly, only with nitter front ends.