He used Grok to fix X's broken archive viewer and merge posts into one AI-searchable JSON
davidpattersonx · x · 2026-09-10
The author walked through fixing X's official archive with Grok: the default viewer omits extended-length posts and search is incomplete. Grok found the GitHub project tweet-search-archive, then patched its code to show long posts, adding like/repost counters, permalinks, and sorting within an hour.
Grok then wrote a program in seconds to merge the short- and long-post archive files into a single JSON he can drag into Grok or ChatGPT for Q&A (limited by context length). His takeaway: AI coding is turning everyone into a programmer, and it's puzzling a $44B company never fixed its own archive viewer.
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