1 Tweeper is a web scraper which can be used to conveniently follow the public
2 activity of social network users without the need to log in or even be
3 subscribed to the social network; tweeper converts the public information to
4 RSS so that it can be accessed and collected by a feed reader.
6 Since Jun 11th 2013 Twitter.com retired their API v1.0, so it's not possible
7 to access a user timeline via RSS anymore, and it's also become mandatory to
8 authenticate via OAuth to access this _public_ information in JSON format:
10 https://dev.twitter.com/discussions/16289
11 https://dev.twitter.com/discussions/11564
13 Some services came up to overcome this "problem":
16 http://twitter-rss.com/ (now redirecting to google.com)
19 However these solutions are still shady and let no control to the user about
20 who collects the information about the visited user timelines.
22 This is why Tweeper[1] was born, as an Open Source way to keep following your
23 friends with a certain degree of anonymity, without having to tell Twitter.com
24 whom you are friend to.
26 [1] http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=TWEEPER&defid=3743173
28 Tweeper can easily scrape sites other than Twitter, it is just a matter of
29 writing an xsl stylesheet for the transformation; an example for pump.io
30 activity stream is provided in rss_converter_pump.io.xsl
32 The currently supported sites are:
35 * Pump.io based websites, like Identi.ca
39 * Facebook.com (public pages)
41 Tweeper can be used via web or as a command line program, for example as
42 a filter in your feed reader, by passing the URL of the user's public timeline
43 as the first argument.
45 Example of use on the command line:
47 $ php tweeper.php http://twitter.com/NSACareers
49 Example of use as a Liferea[2] filter:
51 $ liferea-add-feed "|php .../path_to_tweeper/tweeper.php http://twitter.com/NSAcareers"
53 Example of use with identi.ca:
55 $ liferea-add-feed "|php .../path_to_tweeper/tweeper.php http://identi.ca/evan"
57 [2] http://lzone.de/liferea/
59 Tweeper is licensed under the GPLv3.
60 Tweeper was written by Antonio Ospite http://ao2.it