From: Antonio Ospite Date: Sun, 13 Sep 2015 09:41:35 +0000 (+0200) Subject: README: describe what tweeper is in a more generic way X-Git-Tag: v0.4~9 X-Git-Url: https://git.ao2.it/tweeper.git/commitdiff_plain/c90734a4a74dee6ad5407352c6f1fd67eb699035?hp=5f87fdc0c505314fbe8b0e397d34039f5c7894bb README: describe what tweeper is in a more generic way Since tweeper does not support only Twitter.com but also other social websites, give a more general idea of what it can be used for. --- diff --git a/README b/README index d2d200b..808dd89 100644 --- a/README +++ b/README @@ -1,6 +1,7 @@ -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