-Tweeper 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 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 Twitter.com retired their API v1.0, so it's not possible
to access a user timeline via RSS anymore, and it's also become mandatory to
[1] http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=TWEEPER&defid=3743173
-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.
-
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 http://twitter.com/NSACareers
projects / tweeper.git / blobdiff