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
34 * Facebook.com (public pages)
36 tweeper can be used as:
38 1. a command line tool;
39 2. a filter for feed readers;
40 3. a web based tool when PHP support is available in the web server.
47 show links to supported media files in the RSS <enclosure/> element
56 Getting the RSS feed of some Twitter user:
58 tweeper http://twitter.com/NSACareers
60 Using tweeper as a filter for the Liferea feed reader:
62 liferea-add-feed "|tweeper http://twitter.com/NSAcareers"
64 Using tweeper via web (the symlink must be created only the very first time):
66 sudo ln -s /usr/share/php/tweeper/tweeper.php /var/www
67 xdg-open http://localhost/tweeper.php?src_url=http://twitter.com/NSAcareers
73 In order to use tweeper with a symlink with the apache 'userdir' module, the
74 'SymLinksIfOwnerMatch' option must be replaced by 'FollowSymlink' in
75 /etc/apache2/mods-enabled/userdir.conf
94 Main web site: <http://git.ao2.it/tweeper.git>
99 Copyright \(C) 2013-2014 Antonio Ospite <ao2@ao2.it>
101 This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
102 it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
103 the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
104 (at your option) any later version.