From c90734a4a74dee6ad5407352c6f1fd67eb699035 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Antonio Ospite Date: Sun, 13 Sep 2015 11:41:35 +0200 Subject: [PATCH 1/1] 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. --- README | 7 ++++--- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) 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 -- 2.1.4