X Mobile Longshot

X Mobile Longshot

Render X links into phone-like dark-mode long screenshots, then optionally wrap the image into a single-page PDF.

Quick start

Use the bundled script:

node skills/x-mobile-longshot/scripts/render_x_longshot.js \
  --url 'https://x.com/i/status/2030475950752710891' \
  --out-png 'outputs/x_render/example.png' \
  --out-pdf 'outputs/x_render/example.pdf'

If the user only wants the PNG:

node skills/x-mobile-longshot/scripts/render_x_longshot.js \
  --url 'https://x.com/i/status/2030475950752710891' \
  --out-png 'outputs/x_render/example.png' \
  --no-pdf

Workflow

1. Use Playwright mobile emulation, dark mode, and a phone device preset.
2. Open the X URL and wait for the page to settle.
3. Dismiss top modal/app-open prompts with DOM-side clicks when present.
4. Remove common fixed/sticky overlays by matching known X CTA text.
5. Capture one full-page PNG.
6. Re-open the page, repeat cleanup, capture one clean viewport image.
7. Replace the top portion of the long PNG with the clean viewport image to reduce popup contamination.
8. Convert the PNG into a single-page PDF when requested.

Defaults

• Device: iPhone 14 Pro Max
• Color scheme: dark
• Locale: zh-CN
• Timezone: Asia/Shanghai
• Top replacement height: 1450px

Tuning

Useful flags:

• --device 'iPhone 14 Pro Max' to change the Playwright device preset
• --wait-ms 6000 to wait longer for slow pages
• --top-fix-px 1700 to replace more of the top area when the popup intrudes deeper
• --no-pdf to skip PDF creation

Quality bar

Prefer this skill when the user wants:

• phone-like visual presentation
• dark-mode X reading output
• archival PNG + PDF delivery
• a result that feels closer to a real screenshot than browser print output

Do not overclaim native-app fidelity. This is a browser-rendered mobile capture pipeline with cleanup, not a real iPhone App Store build of X.

Troubleshooting

If the output still contains overlays or sticky bars:

1. Re-run with higher --wait-ms.
2. Increase --top-fix-px.
3. Read references/notes.md and update the overlay text patterns in scripts/render_x_longshot.js.
4. If X changed its DOM substantially, migrate to segmented capture + stitching as the next iteration.

Resources

• scripts/render_x_longshot.js: main renderer
• references/notes.md: v1 design notes, limits, and iteration guidance