X-Git-Url: https://git.ao2.it/tweeper.git/blobdiff_plain/4835a2e8d2816eeed44d2e5b9ffe62be7d4572eb..24c1c47b30da99b05a68d1b4d3c3458cbcc6b962:/README diff --git a/README b/README index 46a2fe5..f9d45a9 100644 --- a/README +++ b/README @@ -13,9 +13,10 @@ 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 informations about the visited user timelines. +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 @@ -24,15 +25,24 @@ whom you are friend 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. +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 tweeter, 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 Example of use on the command line: - $ php tweeper.php NSACareers + $ php tweeper.php http://twitter.com/NSACareers Example of use as a Liferea[2] filter: - $ liferea-add-feed "|php .../path_to_tweeper/tweeper.php NSAcareers" + $ liferea-add-feed "|php .../path_to_tweeper/tweeper.php http://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/