social-research
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Finds and extracts content from social platforms — X/Twitter posts and profiles via the public syndication API (no auth), Threads posts via public web endpoints where available, and Reddit/HN/Bluesky via official public APIs. Uses the ultimate-browsing Tier 1.5 platform-native readers with honest documentation of what each platform exposes without a login. Use for researching people, topics, or conversations on social platforms without a browser.
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- Omni-Scientist/openSocialSciencetheir own version, first seen Nov 1, 2026
- openSocialScience/openSocialSciencetheir own version, first seen Oct 25, 2026
- tylerprogramming/claude-skillstheir own version, first seen Oct 15, 2026
- smcllns/skillstheir own version, first seen Jun 16, 2026
Other versions4 projects use a version of this.
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- Omni-Scientist/openSocialScience★ 1same name
- openSocialScience/openSocialScience★ 1same name
- smcllns/skills★ 0same name
- tylerprogramming/claude-skills★ 0same name
How matches are found. Word for word: the exact same text. Edited: shares passages with this file (“99% same” means 99% of its five-word phrases also appear here; 10% or more counts). Their own version: similar meaning, or, weakest, the same name. We can’t tell which project had it first. Projects are counted among the 200 most-starred candidates, and mentions are links to the repository we found, up to 50 per site, so both counts are a floor.
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The file
We split this skill into the rules it gives an agent
1 rule. About 0 are common, 1 is distinctive, and 0 are very specific to this project.
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Read-only social content discovery through the platforms' own public endpoints — no headless browser, no login, no scraping around walls.
≈ “Common” is an estimate: at least 1 in 5 of the 350,495 skill files we read have a rule of the same kind, not the same words. “Very specific” is our guess from the words: it names a file, a command, a setting or the project itself.
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Social Research
Read-only social content discovery through the platforms' own public endpoints — no headless browser, no login, no scraping around walls.
Platform capabilities (honest matrix)
| Platform | No-auth access | How |
| X/Twitter | Profiles, recent posts | Public syndication API (syndication.twitter.com) — rate-limited (429 when hot; retry with backoff) |
| Threads | Public profiles/posts only | threads.net/@user public web pages; no public search API — search is not possible without auth, documented as such |
| Full search, posts, comments | Official .json endpoints (reddit.com/r/X/search.json) | |
| Hacker News | Full search, items | Firebase API (hacker-news.firebaseio.com) + Algolia search (hn.algolia.com) |
| Bluesky | Profiles, posts, search | Public AT Protocol API (public.api.bsky.app) |
X/Twitter via syndication
# User timeline (no auth):
curl -s "https://syndication.twitter.com/srv/timeline-profile/screen-name/USERNAME?dnt=true"
# Returns HTML with embedded tweets; parse text from it.
# 429 = rate limited: back off, don't hammer.Reddit search
curl -s "https://www.reddit.com/search.json?q=QUERY&limit=10" -H "User-Agent: research"
curl -s "https://www.reddit.com/r/SUBREDDIT/hot.json?limit=10" -H "User-Agent: research"Hacker News search
curl -s "https://hn.algolia.com/api/v1/search?query=QUERY&tags=story"
curl -s "https://hacker-news.firebaseio.com/v0/topstories.json"Bluesky
curl -s "https://public.api.bsky.app/xrpc/app.bsky.actor.searchActors?q=QUERY"
curl -s "https://public.api.bsky.app/xrpc/app.bsky.feed.searchPosts?q=QUERY"Threads — the honest limitation
Threads has no public search API and no syndication endpoint. Public profile
pages (threads.net/@username) render post content in HTML for logged-out
viewers in some regions, but availability varies. Searching Threads content
without a Meta account is not possible — this skill documents the limitation
rather than pretending a workaround exists. For Threads-specific needs, the
user's logged-in browser session (via a browser automation skill) is the
only legitimate path.
Pairs with
ultimate-browsing (escalate to Tier 2 stealth browser when public
endpoints are insufficient and you have legitimate access).
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