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Videos and GIFs just work, so whether you are sharing memes or cat videos, go crazy!
On Discord, we can also automatically embed videos linked from some other platforms, like YouTube, so they can play without having to open a browser.
If you want to share the results of a poll, you can do so by just linking the post using FxTwitter or FixupX. This works even if the poll is still ongoing!
Quotes and their media can provide important context to a post, so they're automatically displayed. We'll even surface their media if there isn't already media embedded in the quote.
You can translate a post into any other supported language, with the original and translated text displayed as space allows.
Just append a post with its 2-letter ISO language code. So for English, add /en at the end.
Bluesky support is planned in the future, but this currently depends on X/Twitter's Google Translate endpoint.
Want to link directly to a post's media without the embed? You can easily do that!
There are a few supported ways to do this:
- Add
d.before the domain (so,d.fxtwitter.com) - Add
.mp4to the end of videos or.jpgto the end of images, after the post ID
Examples from above:
https://d.fxbsky.app/profile/wuff.gay/post/3lkordyy77k2ahttps://fxtwitter.com/example/status/1548119328498728960.mp4https://fixupx.com/example/status/1548117889437208581.jpg
Posts with multiple images are supported, so you can do something like this and it will pick the correct one:
https://d.fixupx.com/example/status/1547514042146865153/photo/3
Otherwise, it will default to the first image.
By default, FxEmbed will display multiple images natively on Discord, allowing you to preview individual full-quality images. You can also opt to have the images combined into a single one to make it display better on some platforms (i.e. iOS). Image combining will always be used on unsupported platforms.
https://m.fxtwitter.com/example/status/123456789123456789 https://m.fixupx.com/example/status/123456789123456789 https://m.fxbsky.app/profile/example.com/post/3lkord123abc
Use g.fxtwitter.com or g.fixupx.com to generate minimal embeds with just the post's media and author information without other distractions. This can be particularly useful for read-only channels dedicated to sharing media.
Basically the opposite of gallery view, use t.fxtwitter.com / t.fixupx.com to exclude photos/videos and only display text.
View entire threads without leaving Telegram or opening a browser! You can unroll threads by just linking any part of the original thread. It will also keep track of any posts being replied to, up until the start of a conversation.
Default X/Twitter embeds include t.co link shorteners, which make it difficult to know where the link is heading. We automatically replace t.co links with their original links to make things clearer.
If you want to redirect to Nitter or another custom interface, you can set your custom redirect domain, like so: https://fxtwitter.com/set_base_redirect?url=https://nitter.net
At this time, the cookie is only set on the domain you set it on, so if you set it up using fxtwitter.com, fixupx.com will not redirect to your custom domain unless you set it there.
FxEmbed doesn't save logs of what posts you're sending, nor do we have a public record of what posts are being embedded.
In fact, because our core embedding and API service uses Cloudflare Workers, FxEmbed can only run when you send it a request. Its memory doesn't stick around, and it doesn't have a file system or database to read from at all. That is how we keep our privacy promise by building it into the architecture. We use Cloudflare Analytics Engine to aggregate basic, anonymous statistics, which do not include information that could identify individual users or posts. My goal is always to provide a good public service, and FxEmbed doesn't have any ads or tracking to make money off of, nor do we sell data.
Temporary real-time logging in the terminal (specifically wrangler tail) may be used only by the developer while the Worker is being serviced or debugged (to make sure things work as they should), however these logs are only shown in the terminal and are never saved or used for any other purpose. URLs that cause runtime errors in the script (aka Exceptions, usually exceedingly rare unless there was a faulty update pushed) may be logged for a developer to diagnose the issue that is preventing your embed from working.
On a different note, if the person who posted a FxTwitter or FixupX link forgot to strip tracking parameters (like ?s and &t), we strip it upon redirecting to the post as they are only used for telemetry and advertising.
Let's compare using FxTwitter / FixupX since it's the most feature-complete. Here's a table comparing some of FxTwitter's features compared to Twitter default embeds as well as other embedding services
| FxTwitter / FixupX | Default | vxTwitter (fixvx) | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Embed Posts / Image | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ |
| Embed profile pictures on posts | ✔️ | ❌ | ☑️ If no media |
| Embed Videos | ✔️ | ❌ | ✔️ |
| Embed External Videos (YouTube, etc.) | ✔️¹ | ❌ | ❌ |
| Embed Poll results | ✔️ | ❌ | ✔️ |
| Embed Quotes | ✔️ | ❌ | ☑️ Without Media |
| Embed Multiple Images | ✔️ | ❌ | ✔️ |
| Translate Posts | ✔️ | ❌ | ❌ |
| Replace t.co with original links | ✔️ | ❌ | ✔️ |
| Redirect to media file (without embed) | ✔️ | ❌ | ☑️ Subdomain broken, no images |
| Gallery view | ✔️ | ❌ | ❌ |
| Strip tracking info on redirect | ✔️ | ❌ | ✔️ |
| Show date / time of post | ➖ Discord / Telegram Instant View | ❌ | ❌ |
| Show retweet, like, reply, view counts | ➖ Discord / Telegram Instant View | ❌ | ☑️ No replies / views |
Discord sed replace (s/) friendly |
☑️ twittpr.com with twitter.com | N/A | ❌ |
| Telegram Instant View | ✔️ | ❌ | ❌ |
| Status fetch API for Developers | ✔️ | N/A | ✔️ |
| Last commit |  |
N/A |  |
¹ External media requiring web containers, such as YouTube, won't embed in Telegram because Telegram doesn't support it. Plain media will work in Telegram, and it works either way inside Discord.
FxEmbed was designed for edge computing in mind, meaning it's easy to run closer to your users (which has significant latency advantages for people in many parts of the world). The way we use it and recommend deployment is using Cloudflare Workers, which are completely free for up to 100,000 requests per day, per account. Cloudflare Workers are fast to set up and your script is distributed in their datacenters around the world for lower latency. It may be possible to run it on other platforms that support Hono, but at this time we do not provide documentation to do so yet.
ℹ️ Currently, we only provide assistance with deploying with Cloudflare Workers, but it may be possible to run on other web standards-compliant runtimes.
Clone the repo, install Node.js and run npm install in the repo directory. Copy wrangler.example.toml to wrangler.toml and add your Cloudflare account ID, and change the name of your worker if you need to. Also copy .env.example to .env and change any domains to your desired domain and whatever else you'd like to configure. You can configure branding by copying branding.example.json to branding.json and configuring it there. Authenticate with Cloudflare with npx wrangler login, then do npm run deploy (or npx wrangler deploy --no-bundle).
Once you're set up with your worker on *.workers.dev, add your worker to your custom domain.
Populate Sentry details in your .env to use Sentry in your product to catch exceptions.
They all run the exact same worker and function identically... mostly.
fxtwitter.com is the primary domain and fixupx.com exists to make it easy to fix x.com links as well (Very short .com domains are expensive, sorry I didn't get something shorter). Also, twittpr.com made it easy to do quick sed replacement on twitter.com links by sending the link and sending s/e/p afterward to automatically edit it, and you can still use that domain.
Telegram's embedding servers sometimes never even send us a request to embed a URL, possibly due to their servers being overloaded. Try using Webpage Bot to try to clear the cache of the embed.
No problem! You can pick any specific photo from a post using Twitter/X's own URL syntax (/photo/1 is the first photo of a post) and we'll render you just that image. Bluesky has no such syntax for doing this, but we could implement something similar in the future.
We only operate on these domains:
fxtwitter.com/twittpr.comfixupx.com(alsoxfixup.com)fxbsky.app
Licensed under the permissive MIT license. Feel free to send a pull request!
Feel free to open an issue
Mosaic Multi-image combiner by Antonio32A
& other contributions by Antonio32A, Burner, Deer-Spangle, Eramdam, SirStendec, SpeedyFolf, Wazbat
Twitter, Tweet, and X are trademarks of X Corp. This project is not affiliated in any way with X Corp or Twitter.
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