X Bookmarks

Obsidian X Bookmarks

Sync your own Twitter/X bookmarks into your Obsidian vault as Markdown notes — one note per bookmark, fully searchable, permanently archived, and consumable by your other tools. Architecture mirrors obsidian-weread-plugin: embedded web login captures your session cookie, that cookie calls X's internal GraphQL Bookmarks endpoint, and each bookmark is rendered through a Nunjucks template into Twitter/.

⚠️ Unofficial, personal use, your own risk. This plugin uses X's private web API with your own session cookie (no paid API). It only ever reads your own bookmarks — it never posts, edits, or deletes. X may change its internal API at any time. Don't use it for bulk/commercial scraping. Your cookie is stored only in this plugin's local data.json and is never sent anywhere except to x.com.

Features

• One-click embedded login (desktop) — opens X's real login window and grabs auth_token + ct0; no manual cookie hunting. 2FA works because it's the real login page.
• Mobile fallback — paste a cookie string manually (embedded login is desktop-only because it needs Electron).
• Complete capture — full text (including >280-char note_tweet long-form), author + handle + avatar, timestamp, permalink, images/videos/GIFs, quoted tweets (one level), and external-link cards. Threads are intentionally not reconstructed.
• Never overwrites your edits — dedup is by immutable tweet_id. An existing note is skipped, never re-written, so any manual annotations are safe. (This is the weread pain point this plugin designs around.)
• Resilient to queryId rotation — X rotates the Bookmarks queryId every few weeks. The plugin auto-discovers it from X's JS bundle, caches it, lets you override it, and falls back to a static value — and on failure says so clearly instead of dying silently.
• Safe pagination — hard page cap, no-progress detection, 429 backoff, and progress so a sync is interruptible.
• Manual + scheduled sync, custom template, custom folder, optional local media download so notes survive the original tweet being deleted.
• Ribbon button (left toolbar): click to sync; right-click for quick actions.
• Optional AI monthly digest via your local Ollama — summarizes new bookmarks by month into a single note (topics, viewpoints, top authors), newest on top. Nothing leaves your machine.

Install

Network + privacy note: this plugin sends requests to x.com with your own session cookie (stored only in this plugin's local data.json) and, if you enable the digest, to your local Ollama. It is unofficial and for personal use — see the disclaimer at the top.

Via BRAT (recommended)

1. Install the BRAT community plugin.
2. BRAT → Add beta plugin → paste this repo's URL.
3. Enable X Bookmarks in Settings → Community plugins.

Manual

Copy main.js, manifest.json, and styles.css into <vault>/.obsidian/plugins/x-bookmarks-to-vault/, then enable it in Settings → Community plugins.

Build from source

npm install
npm run build   # produces main.js

Maintainers: see PUBLISHING.md for releasing and store submission.

Usage

1. Open Settings → X Bookmarks.
2. Desktop: click Log in to X, log in normally; the window closes itself once your credentials are captured. Mobile / fallback: paste a cookie string containing auth_token and ct0.
3. Run the command "Sync X bookmarks" (Command Palette). Notes appear under your configured folder (default Twitter/).
4. Optionally enable Scheduled sync to sync on an interval.

Commands:

Settings

• Note folder — where notes are written (default Twitter).
• Custom template — a Nunjucks template for the note body (frontmatter is always added automatically so dedup never breaks). See src/render/default-template.njk for the default to copy from. Available variables: author.{name,handle,avatar}, text, created_at, permalink, media[], quoted, card, tweet_id, bookmarked_at.
• Download media locally — save images/videos into <folder>/_attachments/.
• Scheduled sync + interval (minutes).
• Max pages per sync — pagination guardrail.
• Advanced → queryId override / Bearer override — manual escape hatches if auto-discovery ever fails.

Note format

Each note carries a frontmatter sentinel used for dedup:

---
doc_type: "x-bookmark"
tweet_id: "1234567890"
author: "Alice"
handle: "alice"
created: "2018-10-10T20:19:24.000Z"
url: "https://x.com/alice/status/1234567890"
bookmarked_at: "2026-06-16T00:00:00.000Z"
---

Filename: {handle}-{tweet_id}.md (block-ref-sensitive characters sanitized).

Troubleshooting

• "queryId may have rotated" / 404 — X changed its internal API. The plugin tries to auto-refresh; if that fails, find the current Bookmarks queryId and paste it into Advanced → queryId override.
• "session is invalid / expired" — your cookie expired. Log in again (desktop) or paste a fresh cookie (mobile).
• Rate limited (429) — wait and re-run; the plugin backs off and your saved notes are untouched.

Development

npm install
npm test          # vitest — parser, pagination guardrails, queryId, dedup, render, cookies, media
npm run dev       # esbuild watch
npm run build     # typecheck + production bundle

The networked seams (parser, queryId extraction, pagination loop, dedup, render, cookies, media) are pure/injectable and unit-tested against recorded fixtures — no live X calls in tests. The embedded Electron login is manually tested.

License

MIT