pin retweets on twitter ----> ----> !! YOU NEED TO BE ON THE OLD LAYOUT, GET GoodTwitter !! <---- <----

rtpin.js

$(document).ajaxComplete((e, x, o) => {
    if (o.url == "https://api.twitter.com/1.1/statuses/retweet.json") {
        tweet_id = JSON.parse(x.responseText)['id_str'];
        auth_token = JSON.parse(document.querySelector('#init-data').value)['formAuthenticityToken'];
        fetch("https://twitter.com/i/tweet/pin", {
            body: `authenticity_token=${auth_token}&id=${tweet_id}`,
            method: "POST",
            headers: {
                Accept: "application/json, text/javascript, */*; q=0.01",
                "Cache-Control": "no-cache",
                "Content-Type": "application/x-www-form-urlencoded; charset=UTF-8",
                "X-Requested-With": "XMLHttpRequest",
                "X-Twitter-Active-User": "yes"
            }
        }).then(res => res.json()).then(res => $(document).trigger('uiShowError', res))
    }
})

// paste this into javascript console on a twitter permalink status page (https://twitter.com/[user]/status/[id]) 
// this will make any tweet you retweet on that page also pin itself to your profile
// this is very laggy bc jquery sucks
// so i recommend opening your tweet in a new tab, pasting the code, retweeting, and then closing the tab
// also this only works on old twitter, not nu PWA twitter

// enjoi

// oh also
// this works because when you retweet a tweet, you get a tweet id
// this is not the original tweet's id, this is actually the id *of your retweet*
// for backwards compatibility reasons, twitter, despite displaying them differently, actually has retweets stored as normal tweets
// and these normal tweets are attributed to you
// so since it's a tweet, and it's attributed to you, the /i/tweet/pin api goes "well ok" and pins it bc it never checks if its a retweet

getting "SyntaxError: '[object HTMLDocument]' is not a valid selector"
is this why it's currently not working?

getting "SyntaxError: '[object HTMLDocument]' is not a valid selector"
is this why it's currently not working?

you need to be on the old layout

hi, i am having trouble with doing this. could you possibly help me? my twitter is @z4nii if you want to contact me that way. thanks!

I'm getting "Failed to load resource: net: : EER_BLOCKED_BY_CLIENT" after I retweet the tweet I want to pin. Is there a fix?
(It worked when I tried it again, my apologies)

Old layout is discontinued, consider porting this to the new layout

@sks316 Requires ability to sign requests using oauth, cannot currently figure out obvious way to do this.
Until then, get Twitter oauth keys with R/W access, grab retweet ID (can be done using network inspector), and then run this using twurl:

twurl -d "tweet_mode=extended&id=[retweet ID]" /1.1/account/pin_tweet.json

I think Twitter killed the loophole for account/pin_tweet when they released v2, trying to get it to pin a retweet status now gets a 404 with 'errors':[{'code': 144, 'message': 'No status found with that ID.'}] as the body even using v1.1.