grab twitter guest tokens

guest-account.sh

#!/bin/bash
# Grab Twitter guest account tokens for use with Nitter. 
# no longer working as of Jan 31, 2026

# https://api.twitter.com/1.1/guest/activate.json?skip_gt_rate_limit=true (param has no effect)
guest_token=$(curl -s -XPOST https://api.twitter.com/1.1/guest/activate.json -H 'Authorization: Bearer AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAFXzAwAAAAAAMHCxpeSDG1gLNLghVe8d74hl6k4%3DRUMF4xAQLsbeBhTSRrCiQpJtxoGWeyHrDb5te2jpGskWDFW82F' -H 'Connection: close' | jq -r '.guest_token')

flow_token=$(curl -s -XPOST 'https://api.twitter.com/1.1/onboarding/task.json?flow_name=welcome&api_version=1&known_device_token=&sim_country_code=us' \
  -H 'Authorization: Bearer AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAFXzAwAAAAAAMHCxpeSDG1gLNLghVe8d74hl6k4%3DRUMF4xAQLsbeBhTSRrCiQpJtxoGWeyHrDb5te2jpGskWDFW82F' \
  -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  -H 'User-Agent: TwitterAndroid/10.21.1' \
  -H "X-Guest-Token: ${guest_token}" \
  -d '{"flow_token":null,"input_flow_data":{"flow_context":{"start_location":{"location":"splash_screen"}}}}' | jq -r .flow_token)

curl -s -XPOST 'https://api.twitter.com/1.1/onboarding/task.json' \
  -H 'Authorization: Bearer AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAFXzAwAAAAAAMHCxpeSDG1gLNLghVe8d74hl6k4%3DRUMF4xAQLsbeBhTSRrCiQpJtxoGWeyHrDb5te2jpGskWDFW82F' \
  -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  -H 'User-Agent: TwitterAndroid/10.21.1' \
  -H "X-Guest-Token: ${guest_token}" \
  -d "{\"flow_token\":\"${flow_token}\",\"subtask_inputs\":[{\"open_link\":{\"link\":\"next_link\"},\"subtask_id\":\"NextTaskOpenLink\"}]}" | 
  jq -c -r '.subtasks[0]|if(.open_account) then {oauth_token: .open_account.oauth_token, oauth_token_secret: .open_account.oauth_token_secret} else empty end'