Merge pull request #32 from odysseus0/feat/text-output

feat: improve text output with article preview, quote tweets, and media

CHANGELOG.md

@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@
 ### Added
 - `list-timeline` now supports pagination (`--all`, `--max-pages`, `--cursor`) (#30) — thanks @zheli.
 - `home` command for the "For You" and "Following" home timelines (#31) — thanks @odysseus0.
+- Rich text output now shows article previews, quoted tweets, and media links (#32) — thanks @odysseus0.
 
 ### Fixed
 - macOS cookie extraction now supports Brave keychain storage (#40) — thanks @gakonst.

src/cli/shared.ts

@@ -318,9 +318,66 @@ export function createCliContext(normalizedArgs: string[], env: NodeJS.ProcessEn
       console.log(opts.emptyMessage ?? 'No tweets found.');
       return;
     }
+    const useEmoji = output.emoji && !output.plain;
+    const articleLabel = useEmoji ? '📰' : 'Article:';
+    const mediaLabel = (type: 'photo' | 'video' | 'animated_gif'): string => {
+      if (useEmoji) {
+        return type === 'video' ? '🎬' : type === 'animated_gif' ? '🔄' : '🖼️';
+      }
+      return type === 'video' ? 'VIDEO:' : type === 'animated_gif' ? 'GIF:' : 'PHOTO:';
+    };
+    const quotePrefix = useEmoji ? { top: '┌─', mid: '│ ', bot: '└─' } : { top: '> ', mid: '> ', bot: '> ' };
+
     for (const tweet of tweets) {
       console.log(`\n@${tweet.author.username} (${tweet.author.name}):`);
-      console.log(tweet.text);
+
+      // Display tweet text, with article indicator if present
+      if (tweet.article) {
+        // Full body mode: text starts with article title (from extractArticleText)
+        // Preview mode: text is short tweet intro that doesn't start with title
+        const hasFullBody = tweet.text.startsWith(tweet.article.title);
+        if (hasFullBody) {
+          console.log(`${articleLabel} ${tweet.text}`);
+        } else {
+          console.log(`${articleLabel} ${tweet.article.title}`);
+          if (tweet.article.previewText) {
+            console.log(`   ${tweet.article.previewText}`);
+          }
+        }
+      } else {
+        console.log(tweet.text);
+      }
+
+      // Display media attachments
+      if (tweet.media && tweet.media.length > 0) {
+        for (const m of tweet.media) {
+          console.log(`${mediaLabel(m.type)} ${m.url}`);
+        }
+      }
+
+      // Display quoted tweet
+      if (tweet.quotedTweet) {
+        console.log(`${quotePrefix.top} QT @${tweet.quotedTweet.author.username}:`);
+        const qtText = tweet.quotedTweet.article
+          ? `${articleLabel} ${tweet.quotedTweet.article.title}`
+          : tweet.quotedTweet.text;
+        // Indent and truncate quoted tweet text
+        const maxLen = 280;
+        const truncated = qtText.length > maxLen ? `${qtText.slice(0, maxLen)}...` : qtText;
+        for (const line of truncated.split('\n').slice(0, 4)) {
+          console.log(`${quotePrefix.mid}${line}`);
+        }
+        // Display quoted tweet media
+        if (tweet.quotedTweet.media && tweet.quotedTweet.media.length > 0) {
+          for (const m of tweet.quotedTweet.media) {
+            console.log(`${quotePrefix.mid}${mediaLabel(m.type)} ${m.url}`);
+          }
+        }
+        console.log(
+          `${quotePrefix.bot} https://x.com/${tweet.quotedTweet.author.username}/status/${tweet.quotedTweet.id}`,
+        );
+      }
+
       if (tweet.createdAt) {
         console.log(`${l('date')}${tweet.createdAt}`);
       }

src/commands/read.ts

@@ -36,11 +36,7 @@ export function registerReadCommands(program: Command, ctx: CliContext): void {
         if (cmdOpts.json || cmdOpts.jsonFull) {
           console.log(JSON.stringify(result.tweet, null, 2));
         } else {
-          console.log(`@${result.tweet.author.username} (${result.tweet.author.name}):`);
+          ctx.printTweets([result.tweet], { showSeparator: false });
-          console.log(result.tweet.text);
-          if (result.tweet.createdAt) {
-            console.log(`\n${ctx.l('date')}${result.tweet.createdAt}`);
-          }
           console.log(formatStatsLine(result.tweet, ctx.getOutput()));
         }
       } else {

src/lib/twitter-client-types.ts

@@ -80,9 +80,12 @@ export type GraphqlTweetResult = {
     };
   };
   article?: {
+    title?: string;
+    preview_text?: string;
     article_results?: {
       result?: {
         title?: string;
+        preview_text?: string;
         plain_text?: string;
         text?: string;
         richtext?: {
@@ -129,7 +132,6 @@ export type GraphqlTweetResult = {
         }>;
       };
     };
-    title?: string;
     plain_text?: string;
     text?: string;
     richtext?: {
@@ -236,6 +238,11 @@ export interface TweetData {
   quotedTweet?: TweetData;
   // Media attachments (photos, videos, GIFs)
   media?: TweetMedia[];
+  // Article metadata (for Twitter Articles / long-form posts)
+  article?: {
+    title: string;
+    previewText?: string;
+  };
   // Raw GraphQL tweet result (only when includeRaw is enabled)
   _raw?: GraphqlTweetResult;
 }

src/lib/twitter-client-utils.ts

@@ -153,6 +153,26 @@ export function extractTweetText(result: GraphqlTweetResult | undefined): string
   return extractArticleText(result) ?? extractNoteTweetText(result) ?? firstText(result?.legacy?.full_text);
 }
 
+export function extractArticleMetadata(
+  result: GraphqlTweetResult | undefined,
+): { title: string; previewText?: string } | undefined {
+  const article = result?.article;
+  if (!article) {
+    return undefined;
+  }
+
+  const articleResult = article.article_results?.result ?? article;
+  const title = firstText(articleResult.title, article.title);
+  if (!title) {
+    return undefined;
+  }
+
+  // preview_text is available in home timeline responses
+  const previewText = firstText(articleResult.preview_text, article.preview_text);
+
+  return { title, previewText };
+}
+
 export function extractMedia(result: GraphqlTweetResult | undefined): TweetMedia[] | undefined {
   // Prefer extended_entities (has video info), fall back to entities
   const rawMedia = result?.legacy?.extended_entities?.media ?? result?.legacy?.entities?.media;
@@ -261,6 +281,7 @@ export function mapTweetResult(
   }
 
   const media = extractMedia(result);
+  const article = extractArticleMetadata(result);
 
   const tweetData: TweetData = {
     id: result.rest_id,
@@ -278,6 +299,7 @@ export function mapTweetResult(
     authorId: userId,
     quotedTweet,
     media,
+    article,
   };
 
   if (includeRaw) {

tests/extract-article-metadata.test.ts

@@ -0,0 +1,88 @@
+import { describe, expect, it } from 'vitest';
+import type { GraphqlTweetResult } from '../src/lib/twitter-client-types.js';
+import { extractArticleMetadata } from '../src/lib/twitter-client-utils.js';
+
+describe('extractArticleMetadata', () => {
+  it('returns undefined when no result', () => {
+    expect(extractArticleMetadata(undefined)).toBeUndefined();
+  });
+
+  it('returns undefined when no article field', () => {
+    const result: GraphqlTweetResult = {
+      rest_id: '123',
+      legacy: { full_text: 'Hello world' },
+    };
+    expect(extractArticleMetadata(result)).toBeUndefined();
+  });
+
+  it('returns undefined when article has no title', () => {
+    const result: GraphqlTweetResult = {
+      rest_id: '123',
+      article: {
+        article_results: {
+          result: {},
+        },
+      },
+    };
+    expect(extractArticleMetadata(result)).toBeUndefined();
+  });
+
+  it('extracts title from article_results.result', () => {
+    const result: GraphqlTweetResult = {
+      rest_id: '123',
+      article: {
+        article_results: {
+          result: {
+            title: 'Building Context Graphs for GTM',
+          },
+        },
+      },
+    };
+
+    const metadata = extractArticleMetadata(result);
+    expect(metadata).toEqual({
+      title: 'Building Context Graphs for GTM',
+      previewText: undefined,
+    });
+  });
+
+  it('extracts title and preview_text from article_results.result', () => {
+    const result: GraphqlTweetResult = {
+      rest_id: '123',
+      article: {
+        article_results: {
+          result: {
+            title: 'Building Context Graphs for GTM',
+            preview_text:
+              'Foundation Capital recently argued that one of the next trillion-dollar opportunities in AI will come from context graphs.',
+          },
+        },
+      },
+    } as GraphqlTweetResult;
+
+    const metadata = extractArticleMetadata(result);
+    expect(metadata).toEqual({
+      title: 'Building Context Graphs for GTM',
+      previewText:
+        'Foundation Capital recently argued that one of the next trillion-dollar opportunities in AI will come from context graphs.',
+    });
+  });
+
+  it('falls back to article.title when article_results.result.title missing', () => {
+    const result: GraphqlTweetResult = {
+      rest_id: '123',
+      article: {
+        title: 'Fallback Title',
+        article_results: {
+          result: {},
+        },
+      },
+    };
+
+    const metadata = extractArticleMetadata(result);
+    expect(metadata).toEqual({
+      title: 'Fallback Title',
+      previewText: undefined,
+    });
+  });
+});

tests/map-tweet-article.test.ts

@@ -0,0 +1,73 @@
+import { describe, expect, it } from 'vitest';
+import type { GraphqlTweetResult } from '../src/lib/twitter-client-types.js';
+import { mapTweetResult } from '../src/lib/twitter-client-utils.js';
+
+describe('mapTweetResult article', () => {
+  const makeUserResult = () => ({
+    core: {
+      user_results: {
+        result: {
+          rest_id: 'u1',
+          legacy: { screen_name: 'alice', name: 'Alice' },
+        },
+      },
+    },
+  });
+
+  it('includes extracted article metadata on mapped tweet', () => {
+    const result: GraphqlTweetResult = {
+      rest_id: '1',
+      legacy: {
+        full_text: 'Check out my article',
+      },
+      article: {
+        article_results: {
+          result: {
+            title: 'Building Context Graphs for GTM',
+            preview_text: 'Foundation Capital recently argued...',
+          },
+        },
+      },
+      ...makeUserResult(),
+    } as GraphqlTweetResult;
+
+    const mapped = mapTweetResult(result, 0);
+    expect(mapped).toBeDefined();
+    expect(mapped?.article).toEqual({
+      title: 'Building Context Graphs for GTM',
+      previewText: 'Foundation Capital recently argued...',
+    });
+  });
+
+  it('omits article when none present', () => {
+    const result: GraphqlTweetResult = {
+      rest_id: '2',
+      legacy: { full_text: 'no article' },
+      ...makeUserResult(),
+    };
+
+    const mapped = mapTweetResult(result, 0);
+    expect(mapped?.article).toBeUndefined();
+  });
+
+  it('includes article with only title when no preview_text', () => {
+    const result: GraphqlTweetResult = {
+      rest_id: '3',
+      legacy: { full_text: 'article link' },
+      article: {
+        article_results: {
+          result: {
+            title: 'My Article Title',
+          },
+        },
+      },
+      ...makeUserResult(),
+    };
+
+    const mapped = mapTweetResult(result, 0);
+    expect(mapped?.article).toEqual({
+      title: 'My Article Title',
+      previewText: undefined,
+    });
+  });
+});