Several authors share useful product-design advice on X, but opening every profile daily takes time. You need to know what deserves reading since your last visit, rather than rank their follower counts.

Verify each author before collecting posts

Use screen_name or rest_id according to the information you have. The profile endpoint states that a supplied user ID overrides the username, so remove an old ID before changing the name. Inspect the corresponding homepage and record why you follow the author, such as interest in interviewing methods.

Keep returned posts separate from reading progress

Retrieve the user's posts and preserve lookup time and relevant cursors. Compare post identifiers with earlier observations, then assign your own read, pending or skip status. A returned batch is not necessarily the author's entire history. A previously seen post missing from one batch does not establish deletion.

Write concrete reasons to open a source

After reading relevant material, distinguish a new idea, a follow-up and a repeated retelling. Replace vague praise with the question the post helps answer and the source worth opening. For example, reducing leading interview questions is a useful reading topic, not a verified claim about any particular author. Separate quotations, your interpretation and any AI-assisted summary.

Update only what changes your next reading session

Keep account identifier, source post, first observation time, reading status and next action in a worksheet. If you schedule collection yourself, define notification rules separately; these endpoints do not subscribe or send alerts automatically. Recheck renamed accounts through their verified identity. The finished brief should tell you which few sources to open today without making you reread the whole archive.

Requests used in this project

Request URL and parameters

GET https://api.trmesh.com/openapi/api/v1/twitter/web/fetch_user_profile

Parameter Type Required Meaning
screen_name string No Screen Name
rest_id integer No User ID (If the user ID is used, the user name will be ignored)

Run the Python example

Install requests and set TRMESH_API_TOKEN in your environment. Replace the sample identifiers with the public object you intend to inspect. Example IDs may no longer be available.

import os
import requests

# Read your own developer key from the server environment.
url = "https://api.trmesh.com/openapi/api/v1/twitter/web/fetch_user_profile"
params = {
    "screen_name": "elonmusk",
    "rest_id": "44196397"
}
response = requests.get(
    url, params=params, timeout=30,
    headers={"Authorization": f"Bearer {os.environ['TRMESH_API_TOKEN']}"},
)
response.raise_for_status()
payload = response.json()
print(payload)  # Inspect the actual response before mapping fields

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