Antonio Ospite [Sat, 25 Jul 2015 13:52:57 +0000 (15:52 +0200)]
TODO: remove item about duplicated RSS items
Now all the generated feeds use the <guid/> element to uniquely identify
items.
Antonio Ospite [Sat, 25 Jul 2015 13:50:12 +0000 (15:50 +0200)]
TODO: remove item about Instagram videos
Even if tweeper does not show the video itself in the RSS item content
it at least tells the user that the content is a video, so consider this
done.
Antonio Ospite [Sat, 25 Jul 2015 13:45:33 +0000 (15:45 +0200)]
rss_converter_instagram.com.xsl: add a label if the content is a video
Antonio Ospite [Sat, 25 Jul 2015 11:08:31 +0000 (13:08 +0200)]
rss_converter_instagram.com.xsl: fix enclosure generation
Antonio Ospite [Sat, 25 Jul 2015 10:48:30 +0000 (12:48 +0200)]
rss_converter_instagram.com.xsl: ellipsize titles
Antonio Ospite [Sat, 25 Jul 2015 10:43:49 +0000 (12:43 +0200)]
rss_converter_instagram.com.xsl: use the image caption as the item content
Instagram has reintroduced serving the image caption in the json data,
so use it; it is way nicer than the stats tweeper was showing before.
Antonio Ospite [Sat, 25 Jul 2015 10:36:58 +0000 (12:36 +0200)]
rss_converter_instagram.com.xsl: use better name for the image variable
Antonio Ospite [Wed, 1 Jul 2015 11:47:53 +0000 (13:47 +0200)]
Add support for Facebook.com public pages
Antonio Ospite [Wed, 1 Jul 2015 11:37:57 +0000 (13:37 +0200)]
tweeper.php: support host-specific methods for preprocessing the HTML data
Some sites serve mangled HTML code, so a mechanism to clean it up before
loading it as XML is needed.
For instance, facebook.com puts come content inside HTML comments, and
these must be stripped in order to make the content available to the
HTML parser when loading the data into a DOMDocument.
Antonio Ospite [Wed, 1 Jul 2015 11:35:56 +0000 (13:35 +0200)]
tweeper.php: strip the leading "www." from hosts
This makes tweeper more forgiving when it is passed URLs either with or
without the "www" subdomain for the same host.
Antonio Ospite [Wed, 1 Jul 2015 11:34:53 +0000 (13:34 +0200)]
tweeper.php: make error about missing stylesheet more explicit
Antonio Ospite [Fri, 12 Jun 2015 10:06:02 +0000 (12:06 +0200)]
rss_converter_instagram.com.xsl: update to new json format
The new Instagram homepage provides json data in a format different than
before, update the xsl to support it.
Unfortunately the data in the new format does not provide the
descriptions of the items, so use some placeholder values (URL, comments
count, likes count) to present at least something.
Antonio Ospite [Sun, 31 May 2015 17:17:28 +0000 (19:17 +0200)]
rss_converter_twitter.com.xsl: update XPath of tweet content
Using the role attribute to differentiate between original tweets and
quoted tweet, as introduced in commit 4c2e986, does not work anymore,
but the fact that original tweets are <li></li> elements while quoted
tweets are <div></div> elements can be used instead.
Antonio Ospite [Tue, 5 May 2015 07:28:23 +0000 (09:28 +0200)]
rss_converter_twitter.com.xsl: improve matching the permalink
Extract the permalink using the @data-permalink-path attribute, this
works for withheld tweets too preventing them from having all the same
guid.
Antonio Ospite [Tue, 5 May 2015 07:25:20 +0000 (09:25 +0200)]
rss_converter_twitter.com.xsl: restrict tweet matching
With new style retweets the quoted text is also matched by
[@data-item-type='tweet'] but then the content is not handled, resulting
in empty items in the RSS feed.
Checking also for @role='listitem' allows to pick up only top-level
tweets.
Antonio Ospite [Tue, 5 May 2015 07:21:48 +0000 (09:21 +0200)]
tweeper.php: make date handling functions a little more robust
Provide at least _some_ error checking and a fall-back value for invalid
dates.
Antonio Ospite [Mon, 2 Mar 2015 14:05:54 +0000 (15:05 +0100)]
tweeper.php: factor out an is_cli() function
Antonio Ospite [Mon, 2 Mar 2015 12:05:32 +0000 (13:05 +0100)]
README: mention the supported sites in the README file
Antonio Ospite [Mon, 2 Mar 2015 12:00:59 +0000 (13:00 +0100)]
tweeper.1.asciidoc: mention the supported sites in the man page
Antonio Ospite [Mon, 2 Mar 2015 11:59:12 +0000 (12:59 +0100)]
TODO: update some entries
The new Dilbert.com site does not have a different /fast version, so no
point in mentioning it.
Mention possible support for Instagram videos.
Antonio Ospite [Sat, 28 Feb 2015 00:54:34 +0000 (01:54 +0100)]
Add support for converting Instagram user timelines to RSS
Antonio Ospite [Sat, 28 Feb 2015 00:50:21 +0000 (01:50 +0100)]
tweeper.php: add infrastructure for sites using json data
Some websites provide the timelines as json data and convert that to
html in the client.
Supporting these sites will be done by defining host specific methods to
extract the json data to pass to json_to_xml().
Antonio Ospite [Sat, 28 Feb 2015 00:43:41 +0000 (01:43 +0100)]
tweeper.php: fix validation when generating enclosure elements
The RSS specification says that the enclosure element url must be http.
See http://sourceforge.net/p/feedvalidator/bugs/72/
So follow the specification, for now. If feedvalidator decides to relax
this requirement this hack will be removed.
Antonio Ospite [Fri, 27 Feb 2015 16:08:31 +0000 (17:08 +0100)]
tweeper.php: factor out an html_to_xml() function from the tweep() method
Split the operation to get some xml out of the web page, this in
preparation for adding some more flexibility about what can be converted
to xml for a subsequent transformation.
Antonio Ospite [Fri, 27 Feb 2015 15:54:57 +0000 (16:54 +0100)]
tweeper.php: move loading the stylesheet into the Tweeper class
Let the Tweeper class load the stylesheet, specifically when the tweep()
method is called.
This way the same Tweeper object can be reused to convert different URLs
from different websites.
Antonio Ospite [Fri, 27 Feb 2015 15:47:44 +0000 (16:47 +0100)]
rss_converter_twitter.com.xsl: use ProfileHeaderCard as channel description
Antonio Ospite [Fri, 27 Feb 2015 14:16:55 +0000 (15:16 +0100)]
Strip trailing newlines
Antonio Ospite [Fri, 27 Feb 2015 14:05:13 +0000 (15:05 +0100)]
rss_converter_pump.io.xsl: make the feed validate with feedvalidator.org
Make the pump.io feed validate with http://feedvalidator.org and also
improve compatibility by providing a guid and by excluding the weird
xmlns:php namespace in the output.
Antonio Ospite [Fri, 27 Feb 2015 12:59:38 +0000 (13:59 +0100)]
rss_converter_dilbert.com.xsl: make the feed validate with feedvalidator.org
Make the Dilbert.com feed validate with http://feedvalidator.org and also
improve compatibility by providing a guid and by excluding the weird
xmlns:php namespace in the output.
Antonio Ospite [Fri, 27 Feb 2015 12:58:33 +0000 (13:58 +0100)]
rss_converter_dilbert.com.xsl: fixes for the new dilbert.com
Make the stylesheet work again with the new dilbert.com website.
Antonio Ospite [Fri, 27 Feb 2015 12:29:32 +0000 (13:29 +0100)]
rss_converter_howtoons.com.xsl: make the feed validate with feedvalidator.org
Make the Howtoons.com feed validate with http://feedvalidator.org and
also improve compatibility by providing a guid and by excluding the
weird xmlns:php namespace in the output.
Antonio Ospite [Fri, 27 Feb 2015 12:24:25 +0000 (13:24 +0100)]
rss_converter_twitter.com.xsl: improve the naming of some variables
Use item-content and item-permalink instead of tweet-text and
tweet-link, this way other stylesheets can use the same names resulting
in more consistency.
Antonio Ospite [Fri, 27 Feb 2015 12:15:59 +0000 (13:15 +0100)]
rss_converter_twitter.com.xsl: rename twitterBaseURL to BaseURL
This way the same notation is used in all the stylesheets.
Antonio Ospite [Fri, 27 Feb 2015 12:10:20 +0000 (13:10 +0100)]
rss_converter_twitter.com.xsl: make the feed validate with feedvalidator.org
Make the Twitter feed validate with http://feedvalidator.org and also
improve compatibility by providing a guid and by excluding the weird
xmlns:php namespace in the output.
Antonio Ospite [Thu, 24 Apr 2014 12:29:40 +0000 (14:29 +0200)]
NEWS: add release notes for the v0.3 release
Antonio Ospite [Thu, 24 Apr 2014 11:50:33 +0000 (13:50 +0200)]
Update email address and copyright years
Antonio Ospite [Thu, 24 Apr 2014 11:46:33 +0000 (13:46 +0200)]
Add a stylesheet for Howtoons.com
Antonio Ospite [Thu, 24 Apr 2014 10:02:17 +0000 (12:02 +0200)]
rss_converter_twitter.com.xsl: fix getting the profile picture
Some more values are added tot he class attribute so the old equality
check does not work anymore.
Use a contains() check, this is more future proof and allows also to
support both the classic and the new profile pages.
Antonio Ospite [Thu, 24 Apr 2014 09:58:51 +0000 (11:58 +0200)]
rss_converter_twitter.com.xsl: support the new Twitter profile page
Adjust the XPath expressions to support both the classic and the new
profile pages.
Antonio Ospite [Sat, 22 Feb 2014 08:52:38 +0000 (09:52 +0100)]
rss_converter_*.xsl: specify xml:base
Some feed readers expand relative URLs in items by extracting the base
URL from the enclosing <link/> element, however this is not a globally
accepted practice.
Specifying xml:base is useful to cover other ways in which relative URLs
are expanded, see:
https://cyber.law.harvard.edu/rss/relativeURI.html
http://www.w3.org/TR/xmlbase/#resolution
Antonio Ospite [Fri, 27 Dec 2013 08:32:25 +0000 (09:32 +0100)]
tweeper.php: support generating enclosure for "audio/ogg"
Antonio Ospite [Wed, 20 Nov 2013 00:12:59 +0000 (01:12 +0100)]
tweeper.1.asciidoc: reword some list items
Remove the unneeded "as", it is in the list preamble already.
Antonio Ospite [Tue, 19 Nov 2013 21:30:03 +0000 (22:30 +0100)]
Remove the auto-generated ChangeLog
It is not that useful once we have a nice NEWS file; and the latter can
even be used as upstream changelog in packages.
Antonio Ospite [Mon, 18 Nov 2013 22:16:54 +0000 (23:16 +0100)]
tweeper.1.asciidoc: mention a way to use tweeper from a web server
Antonio Ospite [Mon, 18 Nov 2013 16:58:14 +0000 (17:58 +0100)]
Makefile: fix typo s/INTALLATION/INSTALLATION/
Thanks-to: gregor herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
Antonio Ospite [Mon, 18 Nov 2013 12:20:02 +0000 (13:20 +0100)]
Changelog, NEWS: prepare for the v0.2 release
Antonio Ospite [Mon, 18 Nov 2013 11:56:52 +0000 (12:56 +0100)]
tweeper.1.asciidoc: small fixes to the man page
Antonio Ospite [Mon, 18 Nov 2013 11:12:16 +0000 (12:12 +0100)]
tweeper.1.asciidoc: add a missing semicolon
Antonio Ospite [Mon, 18 Nov 2013 00:01:29 +0000 (01:01 +0100)]
Add a ChangeLog file
Antonio Ospite [Sun, 17 Nov 2013 23:59:58 +0000 (00:59 +0100)]
Add a NEWS file
Antonio Ospite [Sun, 17 Nov 2013 23:59:20 +0000 (00:59 +0100)]
Add a Makefile rule to generate a Changelog file
Antonio Ospite [Sun, 17 Nov 2013 23:43:00 +0000 (00:43 +0100)]
Add a man page
Antonio Ospite [Fri, 8 Nov 2013 15:22:26 +0000 (16:22 +0100)]
Add a Makefile to simplify installation and packaging
Antonio Ospite [Fri, 8 Nov 2013 15:17:48 +0000 (16:17 +0100)]
Add a wrapper script intended to be called as an executable
Add also an INSTALL file which explains how to set up tweeper globally
on the filesystem.
Antonio Ospite [Fri, 8 Nov 2013 14:01:25 +0000 (15:01 +0100)]
Write error messages on STDERR and return saner values in CLI mode
The previous use of die() was not very useful in CLI mode as the script
was always returning 0.
Fix that and also write error messages to the appropriate output stream.
Note the use of 'php://output' as error stream for non CLI mode, this
ensures that error messages would be readable in the browser window.
Antonio Ospite [Fri, 8 Nov 2013 12:09:19 +0000 (13:09 +0100)]
TODO: add more info about checking UTF output
Antonio Ospite [Fri, 8 Nov 2013 09:44:44 +0000 (10:44 +0100)]
Handle errors and warnings from loadHTML()
When parsing invalid documents loadHTML() spits out warnings and errors
which may end up polluting the output of tweeper depending on the value
of the "display_errors" variable in the PHP configuration; this may
result in the output being invalid RSS.
Handling those messages explicitly makes tweeper more robust against
different PHP configurations.
Thanks-to: gregor herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
Antonio Ospite [Sun, 6 Oct 2013 09:01:46 +0000 (11:01 +0200)]
Show the actual name of the user the tweet comes from
The old way of using just the screen name made re-tweeted messages look
like they were coming from the re-twitting user instead of the original
author. This is wrong and causes confusion, fix it.
Antonio Ospite [Mon, 12 Aug 2013 08:16:27 +0000 (10:16 +0200)]
Follow HTTP redirects in get_contents() too
This is especially needed when http:// URLs are redirected to https://
Antonio Ospite [Sun, 11 Aug 2013 23:25:56 +0000 (01:25 +0200)]
Add some entries to the TODO file
Antonio Ospite [Sun, 11 Aug 2013 23:22:35 +0000 (01:22 +0200)]
Merge branch 'generate-enclosure-element'
Antonio Ospite [Sun, 11 Aug 2013 23:16:10 +0000 (01:16 +0200)]
Cosmetics: re-indent cURL options to follow the coding style
Antonio Ospite [Sun, 11 Aug 2013 23:13:56 +0000 (01:13 +0200)]
Use cURL for Tweeper::get_contents() too
So that the same mechanism is used for getting content and info.
Note, the "file://" scheme has to be prepended to local files so cURL
can handle them.
Antonio Ospite [Sun, 11 Aug 2013 23:06:23 +0000 (01:06 +0200)]
Remove double semicolon in Tweeper::get_info()
Antonio Ospite [Sun, 11 Aug 2013 19:23:42 +0000 (21:23 +0200)]
Make get_url_info() and generate_enclosure() static methods
Also rename get_url_info() to get_info() to match the naming scheme of
get_contents().
Antonio Ospite [Sun, 11 Aug 2013 19:15:41 +0000 (21:15 +0200)]
Turn epoch_to_gmdate() and str_to_gmdate() into static methods
Antonio Ospite [Sun, 11 Aug 2013 19:11:03 +0000 (21:11 +0200)]
Make get_contents() a static method
Antonio Ospite [Sun, 11 Aug 2013 18:57:02 +0000 (20:57 +0200)]
Cosmetics: sort supported_content_types, remove unneeded spaces
Antonio Ospite [Sun, 11 Aug 2013 18:52:47 +0000 (20:52 +0200)]
Use an array to list supported content types for enclosures
Antonio Ospite [Sun, 11 Aug 2013 18:44:37 +0000 (20:44 +0200)]
Make it optional to generate the <enclosure/> element
Antonio Ospite [Sun, 11 Aug 2013 18:27:36 +0000 (20:27 +0200)]
Use getopt() to parse command line options
This will make it easier to add more options.
Antonio Ospite [Sun, 11 Aug 2013 18:08:37 +0000 (20:08 +0200)]
Split parsing CLI options from parsing QUERY_STRING ones
This will make it easier to add more options.
Antonio Ospite [Sun, 11 Aug 2013 11:43:05 +0000 (13:43 +0200)]
Use templates to generate enclosures
This has two benefits:
- make it possible to handle multiple enclosures;
- handle _only_ the anchors with the 'data-expanded-url' attribute,
before the change every anchor with the 'twitter-timeline-link'
attribute was handled.
The change also makes the DOM navigation a little lighter because now
only $tweet-text is searched for the 'data-expanded-url' attribute.
Antonio Ospite [Sun, 11 Aug 2013 10:48:21 +0000 (12:48 +0200)]
Merge https://github.com/grote/Tweeper into generate-encolure-elements
Antonio Ospite [Sun, 11 Aug 2013 10:43:42 +0000 (12:43 +0200)]
Fix a typo: s/tweeter/Twitter/
Torsten Grote [Sun, 4 Aug 2013 21:22:02 +0000 (23:22 +0200)]
only enclosify certain mimetypes, use same user agent
Torsten Grote [Sun, 4 Aug 2013 20:00:51 +0000 (22:00 +0200)]
add initial support for enclosures
Antonio Ospite [Sat, 3 Aug 2013 18:56:55 +0000 (20:56 +0200)]
Fix a typo in an error message
Antonio Ospite [Sun, 28 Jul 2013 20:34:06 +0000 (22:34 +0200)]
Add an RSS conversion stylesheet for dilbert.com
Since June 18, 2013 dilbert.com strips are not accessible anymore
directly from the RSS feed, this message is displayed instead:
Dilbert readers - Please visit Dilbert.com to read this feature. Due
to changes with our feeds, we are now making this RSS feed a link to
Dilbert.com.
How unhandy is that, was it because of a management decision?
Maybe a parody dilbert strip is needed about this issue...
Antonio Ospite [Sun, 28 Jul 2013 20:30:26 +0000 (22:30 +0200)]
TODO: mention the <ttl/> RSS element
Antonio Ospite [Sun, 28 Jul 2013 20:28:55 +0000 (22:28 +0200)]
rss_converter_twitter.com.xsl: use concat() more
I think it is a little more readable, and it surely takes less
characters.
Antonio Ospite [Sat, 27 Jul 2013 15:14:07 +0000 (17:14 +0200)]
Add an example with identi.ca
Antonio Ospite [Sat, 27 Jul 2013 15:05:03 +0000 (17:05 +0200)]
Mention in the README that other sites can be converted to RSS
Antonio Ospite [Sat, 27 Jul 2013 14:51:38 +0000 (16:51 +0200)]
Add initial support for scraping Pump.io activity streams
Use symlinks to represent alternate sites with the same structure (i.e.
same server software).
Symlinks are handy and concise, an alternative way would be to introduce
some equivalence mapping, like in the patch below, but I don't really
like that:
diff --git a/tweeper.php b/tweeper.php
index a019684..eb12af2 100755
--- a/tweeper.php
+++ b/tweeper.php
@@ -101,9 +101,18 @@ $url = parse_url($src_url);
if (FALSE === $url || empty($url["host"]))
die("Invalid url: $url\n");
-$stylesheet = __DIR__ . "/rss_converter_" . $url["host"] . ".xsl";
+$equivalence_map = array(
+ "identi.ca" => "pump.io"
+);
+
+if (array_key_exists($url["host"], $equivalence_map))
+ $host = $equivalence_map[$url["host"]];
+else
+ $host = $url["host"];
+
+$stylesheet = __DIR__ . "/rss_converter_" . $host . ".xsl";
if (FALSE === file_exists($stylesheet))
- die("Conversion to RSS not supported: {$url["host"]}\n");
+ die("Conversion to RSS not supported: {$host}\n");
$tweeper = new Tweeper($stylesheet);
echo $tweeper->tweep($src_url);
Antonio Ospite [Sat, 27 Jul 2013 14:46:23 +0000 (16:46 +0200)]
Change mode of tweeper.php
It is not going to be executed directly anyways.
Antonio Ospite [Sat, 27 Jul 2013 14:45:47 +0000 (16:45 +0200)]
Add -h and --help options
Antonio Ospite [Sat, 27 Jul 2013 14:38:46 +0000 (16:38 +0200)]
Add another date conversion routine
Antonio Ospite [Sat, 27 Jul 2013 14:36:36 +0000 (16:36 +0200)]
Update the documentation to use URLs as arguments
This change of behaviour of the interface makes the implementation of
multi-site support a lot easier.
Antonio Ospite [Sat, 27 Jul 2013 14:35:47 +0000 (16:35 +0200)]
Mention rssitfor.me as an alternative service
Antonio Ospite [Sat, 27 Jul 2013 14:04:41 +0000 (16:04 +0200)]
Use __DIR__ when building the stylesheet path name
This makes it possible to call tweeper.php with an absolute path.
For now the stylesheet are assumed to be in the same directory of the
program; I have no experience with distributing php software for command
line usage, so I don't know yet how to properly handle include paths.
Antonio Ospite [Sat, 27 Jul 2013 14:01:36 +0000 (16:01 +0200)]
Rename formatDate() function to epoch_to_gmdate()
The could be different date conversion functions in the future.
Antonio Ospite [Sat, 27 Jul 2013 11:31:59 +0000 (13:31 +0200)]
Be more verbose in error messages
Antonio Ospite [Sat, 27 Jul 2013 11:24:44 +0000 (13:24 +0200)]
Make stylesheet file name parametric
The host is encoded in the file name, this is in order to support more
sites with no changes to the code, all that is needed is just new
stylesheets with the host in their filename following the scheme will:
rss_converter_HOST.xsl
Where HOST has the meaning of the "host" field in the return value of
the PHP parse_url() function.
Antonio Ospite [Sat, 27 Jul 2013 11:09:08 +0000 (13:09 +0200)]
Change of behavior| Now a URL is required as an argument
This makes the program more generic and prepares it to support feed
scraping for more websites.
Antonio Ospite [Sat, 27 Jul 2013 10:49:21 +0000 (12:49 +0200)]
Factor out a usage() function
Antonio Ospite [Sat, 27 Jul 2013 10:43:16 +0000 (12:43 +0200)]
Use php_sapi_name() to check for CLI interface
Antonio Ospite [Sun, 7 Jul 2013 13:34:21 +0000 (15:34 +0200)]
Fix a typo
Antonio Ospite [Sun, 7 Jul 2013 13:33:26 +0000 (15:33 +0200)]
Add more info about how to call Tweeper from command line
Antonio Ospite [Sat, 6 Jul 2013 23:22:47 +0000 (01:22 +0200)]
Embed the full HTML content of the tweet in the description field
Use CDATA to embed the exact copy of an element; it is neat and we get
click-able links in the feed reader for free.
Antonio Ospite [Sat, 6 Jul 2013 21:06:12 +0000 (23:06 +0200)]
Format dates using an external php function