8 tweeper - web scraper to convert a Twitter timeline to an RSS feed
13 *tweeper* ['OPTIONS'] 'URL'
19 tweeper(1) is a web scraper which extracts the most recent public tweets of
20 a given user from their home page on Twitter.com and formats them in RSS, so
21 the information can be conveniently accessed and collected by a feed reader.
23 tweeper started as the TWitter fEEd scraPER but support for other web sites
26 The sites that tweeper is able to scrape and convert to RSS are:
29 * Pump.io based websites, like Identi.ca
32 tweeper can be used as:
34 1. a command line tool;
35 2. a filter for feed readers;
36 3. a web based tool when PHP support is available in the web server.
43 show links to supported media files in the RSS <enclosure/> element
52 Getting the RSS feed of some Twitter user:
54 tweeper http://twitter.com/NSACareers
56 Using tweeper as a filter for the Liferea feed reader:
58 liferea-add-feed "|tweeper http://twitter.com/NSAcareers"
60 Using tweeper via web (the symlink must be created only the very first time):
62 sudo ln -s /usr/share/php/tweeper/tweeper.php /var/www
63 xdg-open http://localhost/tweeper.php?src_url=http://twitter.com/NSAcareers
69 In order to use tweeper with a symlink with the apache 'userdir' module, the
70 'SymLinksIfOwnerMatch' option must be replaced by 'FollowSymlink' in
71 /etc/apache2/mods-enabled/userdir.conf
90 Main web site: <http://git.ao2.it/tweeper.git>
95 Copyright \(C) 2013-2014 Antonio Ospite <ao2@ao2.it>
97 This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
98 it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
99 the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
100 (at your option) any later version.