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Maxence Cornet
Maxence Cornet

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I built a site that finds book recommendations from tweets using Grok's X Search API

I wanted book recommendations from people I follow, but most sites just list books without any source. I wanted to see the actual tweet where someone said "this book is great."

So I built a site that searches public tweets for book recommendations using Grok's x_search API.

How it works:

  • Uses Grok API with the x_search tool to search X/Twitter
  • Extracts book mentions from tweets containing "great read", "must read", "favorite book", etc.
  • Each recommendation links back to the original tweet as a source

Tech stack: Astro, Python extraction script, Grok 4 API with x_search, Cloudflare Pages

Currently tracking 150+ personalities with 1000+ book recommendations, all sourced from real tweets.

Check it out here

Would love feedback on the UX or suggestions!

Max

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