Saving a tweet as a PDF is harder than it looks (CORS, tokens, and Unicode)
I wanted a simple thing: paste a Twitter/X post link, get a clean PDF of it. Text, author, images, the whole card. No screenshots stitched together. It sounded like a one-afternoon project. It was not. Here are the four walls I hit, and how I got past each one. If you ever try to read tweet data from the browser, this will save you a day. Wall 1: you cannot read a tweet from the browser The…
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