Show HN: I built a Threadreaderapp alternative in 1 day using the v2 Twitter API

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10 points·benzguo··9 comments

Hi! Author here. I built this because I wanted to be able to unroll Twitter threads to markdown (for import into tools like Roam & Obsidian). It was also a great chance to try Twitter’s new search API released this week.

I used NextJS, plus several great OSS projects of note:

https://next-auth.js.org/

https://github.com/draftbit/twitter-lite

https://github.com/outline/rich-markdown-editor

https://github.com/system-ui/theme-ui

If you’d like to discuss on Twitter, here’s my tweet announcing The.Rip yesterday :)

https://twitter.com/benzguo/status/1294832715049517058?s=21

Would you support a feature request to make an API call to the Wayback Machine (at the Internet Archive) to archive whatever threads you’re creating into the Internet Archive?

That'd be cool – I'll definitely consider it! Adding to the backlog :)

Let me know how I can buy you a beer or coffee in return.

I'm getting an unauthorized error on usernames and nothing on threads?

Hmm, did you sign in first? Just ran a username example: https://the.rip/@benzguo-likes-1284546444796412000

No I didn't, I see now.

Don't really use Twitter on a mobile browser as the experience is too rough, just use a thin Android web client instead.

This looks really cool, I like the layout. Will check it out on a desktop later. Good luck with it.

Thanks for trying it out! Will definitely try to make that req clearer :)

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