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X-Ray – Filter your X (Twitter) timeline by country

X-Ray – Filter your X (Twitter) timeline by country

by batudotpy·Feb 22, 2026·1 point·0 comments
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AI Analysis

●●SolidSolve My ProblemNiche Gem

Filters X timeline by country before X's native feature ships; light, free, MV3 extension.

Strengths
  • •Fills a real gap: X announced geo-filtering but hasn't shipped it; this works today.
  • •Technically sound: intercepts GraphQL, caches to avoid rate limits, supports 170+ countries and 8 languages.
  • •Truly free with no login—respects privacy (local storage, no data collection).
Weaknesses
  • •Temporary solution: X will eventually ship native geo-filtering, making this obsolete.
  • •Relies on X's public location data accuracy, which users can spoof or leave blank.
Category
Productivity
Target Audience

X users seeking content filtering by geography

Similar To

XBlock · X CountryBadge

Post Description

I built a Chrome extension that lets you filter tweets by country.

X recently added "Account based in [Country]" to profiles, so the location data is publicly available — X-Ray uses it to show location badges on every tweet and lets you blur or block tweets from selected countries.

There's no native way to do this on X yet (though they're reportedly building one). So I built it.

Tech: Chrome Extension (Manifest V3), Node.js backend, PostgreSQL. The extension intercepts X's GraphQL API responses to extract location data, caches it to avoid rate limits.

It's free, 170+ countries, 9 languages.

Happy to answer technical questions.

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