bird

Fast X/Twitter CLI using GraphQL plus cookie-based auth.

Authentication

• Uses cookie auth.
• Preferred local usage in this environment is Firefox cookies:
  • bird home --following -n 15 --plain --no-emoji --no-color --cookie-source firefox
• Run bird check to inspect active credential sources.

Common commands

• Account:
  • bird whoami
  • bird check
• Timelines:
  • bird home
  • bird home --following
  • bird user-tweets @handle -n 20
  • bird mentions
• Reading:
  • bird read <url-or-id>
  • bird thread <url-or-id>
  • bird replies <url-or-id>
• Search/news:
  • bird search "query" -n 10
  • bird news -n 10
• Bookmarks/likes:
  • bird bookmarks -n 10
  • bird likes -n 10

Posting (use carefully)

• bird tweet "hello world"
• bird reply <url-or-id> "text"
• bird tweet "caption" --media image.png --alt "description"

Notes

• Posting is more likely to hit rate limits than read operations.
• For script-safe output, use --plain or --json.
• If query IDs go stale, run bird query-ids --fresh.