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