TWEEPER(1)
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NAME
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tweeper - web scraper to convert a Twitter timeline to an RSS feed


SYNOPSIS
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*tweeper* ['OPTIONS'] 'URL'


DESCRIPTION
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tweeper(1) is a web scraper which extracts the most recent public tweets of
a given user from their home page on Twitter.com and formats them in RSS, so
the information can be conveniently accessed and collected by a feed reader.

tweeper started as the TWitter fEEd scraPER but support for other web sites
has been added.

The sites that tweeper is able to scrape and convert to RSS are:

* Twitter.com
* Pump.io based websites, like Identi.ca
* Dilbert.com

tweeper can be used as:

1. a command line tool;
2. a filter for feed readers;
3. a web based tool when PHP support is available in the web server.


OPTIONS
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*-e*::
    show links to supported media files in the RSS <enclosure/> element

*-h, --help*::
    show the help message


EXAMPLE OF USE
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Getting the RSS feed of some Twitter user:

 tweeper http://twitter.com/NSACareers

Using tweeper as a filter for the Liferea feed reader:

 liferea-add-feed  "|tweeper http://twitter.com/NSAcareers"

Using tweeper via web (the symlink must be created only the very first time):

  sudo ln -s /usr/share/php/tweeper/tweeper.php /var/www
  xdg-open http://localhost/tweeper.php?src_url=http://twitter.com/NSAcareers


NOTES
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In order to use tweeper with a symlink with the apache 'userdir' module, the
'SymLinksIfOwnerMatch' option must be replaced by 'FollowSymlink' in
/etc/apache2/mods-enabled/userdir.conf


EXIT STATUS
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*0*::
    Success

*!0*::
    Failure


AUTHORS
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Antonio Ospite


RESOURCES
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Main web site: <http://git.ao2.it/tweeper.git>


COPYING
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Copyright \(C) 2013-2014  Antonio Ospite <ao2@ao2.it>

This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
(at your option) any later version.