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