8 tweeper - web scraper to convert supported websites (e.g. Twitter.com) to RSS
13 *tweeper* ['OPTIONS'] 'URL'
19 tweeper(1) is a web scraper which can be used to conveniently follow the
20 public activity of social network users without the need to log in or even be
21 subscribed to the social network; tweeper converts the public information to
22 RSS so that it can be accessed and collected by a feed reader.
24 tweeper started as the TWitter fEEd scraPER but support for other web sites
27 The sites that tweeper is able to scrape and convert to RSS are:
30 * Pump.io based websites, like Identi.ca
33 * Facebook.com (public pages)
35 tweeper can be used as:
37 1. a command line tool;
38 2. a filter for feed readers;
39 3. a web based tool when used with a PHP-enabled web server.
46 show links to supported media files in the RSS <enclosure/> element
49 enable or disable showing multimedia content (e.g. Twitter or Instagram
50 pictures) directly inside the item description. Default is 1 (enable).
53 enable or disable showing usernames in front of the item for hosts which
54 supports it (Twitter.com/Instagram.com). Default is 1 (enable).
57 enable or disable showing verbose output like, for instance, non-fatal
58 errors and warnings from the XML parser. Default is 1 (enable).
67 Getting the RSS feed of some Twitter user:
69 tweeper https://twitter.com/NSACareers
71 Using tweeper as a filter for the Liferea feed reader:
73 liferea-add-feed "|tweeper https://twitter.com/NSAcareers"
75 To use tweeper via web there are two options (the examples assume the
76 installation directory to be `/usr/share/php/tweeper/`):
78 1. Using the PHP built-in web server:
80 php -S localhost:8000 -t /usr/share/php/tweeper/
82 and then visit 'http://localhost:8000/tweeper.php' in the web browser.
84 2. Using a generic web server with the document root in '/var/www':
86 sudo ln -s /usr/share/php/tweeper/tweeper.php /var/www
87 xdg-open http://localhost/tweeper.php?src_url=http://twitter.com/NSAcareers
89 It is enough to create the symlink only the very first time tweeper is used
96 In order to use tweeper with a symlink with the apache 'userdir' module, the
97 'SymLinksIfOwnerMatch' option must be replaced by 'FollowSymlink' in
98 /etc/apache2/mods-enabled/userdir.conf
117 Main web site: <https://git.ao2.it/tweeper.git>
122 Copyright \(C) 2013-2018 Antonio Ospite <ao2@ao2.it>
124 This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
125 it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
126 the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
127 (at your option) any later version.