From 73c2c3b86ad0bc069e3a3e905fb84d94e2832971 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Antonio Ospite Date: Sun, 13 Sep 2015 11:52:51 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] tweeper.1.asciidoc: describe what tweeper is in a more generic way --- tweeper.1.asciidoc | 9 +++++---- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/tweeper.1.asciidoc b/tweeper.1.asciidoc index 2782dac..56beabd 100644 --- a/tweeper.1.asciidoc +++ b/tweeper.1.asciidoc @@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ TWEEPER(1) NAME ---- -tweeper - web scraper to convert a Twitter timeline to an RSS feed +tweeper - web scraper to convert supported websites (e.g. Twitter.com) to RSS SYNOPSIS @@ -16,9 +16,10 @@ SYNOPSIS DESCRIPTION ----------- -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(1) 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. tweeper started as the TWitter fEEd scraPER but support for other web sites has been added. -- 2.1.4