snap

Read public Snapchat stories and Spotlight data

snap is a single pure-Go binary. It reads public snapchat data over plain HTTPS, shapes it into clean records, and prints output that pipes into the rest of your tools. No API key, nothing to run alongside it.

The same package is also a resource-URI driver, so a host program like ant can address snapchat as snapchat:// URIs.

Install

go install github.com/tamnd/snapchat-cli/cmd/snap@latest

Or grab a prebuilt binary from the releases, or run the container image:

docker run --rm ghcr.io/tamnd/snap:latest --help

Usage

snap story nasa                       # public story metadata for @nasa
snap story @snapchat -o json          # as JSON, ready for jq
snap spotlight                        # trending Spotlight videos
snap spotlight -n 10                  # top 10 Spotlight videos
snap spotlight -o jsonl               # as newline-delimited JSON
snap --help                           # the whole command tree

Every command shares one output contract: -o table|json|jsonl|csv|tsv|url|raw, --fields to pick columns, --template for a custom line, and -n to limit. The default adapts to where output goes (a table on a terminal, JSONL in a pipe), so the same command reads well by hand and parses cleanly downstream.

Note: Snapchat is Tier C (anti-bot). Requests from datacenter IPs are usually blocked by Cloudflare. The CLI exits with code 5 when a block is detected, so scripts can distinguish a block from a regular error.

Serve it

The same operations are available over HTTP and as an MCP tool set for agents, with no extra code:

snap serve --addr :7777    # GET /v1/page/<path>  returns NDJSON
snap mcp                   # speak MCP over stdio

Use it as a resource-URI driver

snap registers a snapchat domain the way a program registers a database driver with database/sql. A host enables it with one blank import:

import _ "github.com/tamnd/snapchat-cli/snapchat"

Then ant (or any program that links the package) dereferences snapchat:// URIs without knowing anything about snapchat:

ant get snapchat://page/<path>   # fetch the record
ant cat snapchat://page/<path>   # just the body text
ant ls  snapchat://page/<path>   # the pages it links to, each addressable
ant url snapchat://page/<path>   # the live https URL

Development

cmd/snap/   thin main: hands cli.NewApp to kit.Run
cli/                 assembles the kit App from the snapchat domain
snapchat/                the library: HTTP client, data models, and domain.go (the driver)
docs/                tago documentation site

make build      # ./bin/snap
make test       # go test ./...
make vet        # go vet ./...

Releasing

Push a version tag and GitHub Actions runs GoReleaser, which builds the archives, Linux packages, the multi-arch GHCR image, checksums, SBOMs, and a cosign signature:

git tag v0.1.0
git push --tags

The Homebrew and Scoop steps self-disable until their tokens exist, so the first release works with no extra secrets.

License

Apache-2.0. See LICENSE.