bird/docs/testing.md

Testing

Unit tests (default)

• pnpm test

Live tests (hits Twitter/X)

Runs the CLI against real Twitter/X GraphQL endpoints to verify read-only commands still work.

Requirements:

• Auth cookies in env:
  • AUTH_TOKEN (or TWITTER_AUTH_TOKEN)
  • CT0 (or TWITTER_CT0)
• Network access

Run:

• pnpm test:live
• pnpm bird following --all --max-pages 2 --json --cookie-source chrome --chrome-profile Default
• pnpm bird list-timeline <list-id> --all --max-pages 2 --json --cookie-source chrome --chrome-profile Default
• pnpm bird search "from:steipete" --all --max-pages 2 --json --cookie-source chrome --chrome-profile Default
• pnpm bird home --count 5 --json --cookie-source chrome --chrome-profile Default
• pnpm bird home --count 5 --following --json --cookie-source chrome --chrome-profile Default

Notes:

• Live tests are skipped unless BIRD_LIVE=1 (set by pnpm test:live).
• Search query is configurable via BIRD_LIVE_SEARCH_QUERY.
• Command timeout is configurable via BIRD_LIVE_TIMEOUT_MS (ms).
• Cookie extraction timeout is configurable via BIRD_LIVE_COOKIE_TIMEOUT_MS (ms).
• Spawned CLI NODE_ENV defaults to production (override with BIRD_LIVE_NODE_ENV).
• If you don't tweet, set BIRD_LIVE_TWEET_ID to a known tweet ID to use for read/replies/thread.
• Long-form article coverage: set BIRD_LIVE_LONGFORM_TWEET_ID to a known article tweet ID (example: 2007184284944322584 from @X; refresh by finding a tweet with article via bird user-tweets X -n 20 --json).
• Optional: set BIRD_LIVE_BOOKMARK_FOLDER_ID to exercise bookmarks --folder-id.
• bird query-ids --fresh live coverage: set BIRD_LIVE_QUERY_IDS_FRESH=1.
• The live suite may hit internal X endpoints (v1.1 REST) as fallback; it still uses cookie auth (no developer API key).