twitter-rss v0.1.7

twitter-rss

Represent a Twitter user timeline as an RSS feed.

• Overview
• Installation
• CLI

Overview

• saves followed users tweets to file system
• provides endpoint /tweets returns RSS feed of most recent tweets from your Twitter homepage
• provides endpoints /user/{screen name}/tweets return RSS feed of most recent tweets from the specified user

Installation

Install with npm:

$ npm install --global twitter-rss

Then copy, edit and save this example configuration file:

{
  "baseURL": "http://127.0.0.1:1337",
  "basePath": "/twitter",
  "count": 100,
  "updateInterval": 15,
  "myUserId": "2801964827",
  "directory": "/data/twitter",
  "consumerKey": "TODO",
  "consumerSecret": "TODO",
  "accessTokenKey": "TODO",
  "accessTokenSecret": "TODO"
  "bindPort": 1337,
  "bindIp": "127.0.0.1",
  "unshortenerUserAgent": "Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/61.0.3163.100 Safari/537.36"
}

You can get the keys and secrets by creating a Twitter app at https://apps.twitter.com/.

CLI

Run:

$ twitter-rss /path/to/config/file

The URL for RSS feed of user @example, when configuration option baseURL is set to "http://localhost:1337" and basePath to "/twitter", is http://localhost:1337/twitter/user/example/tweets.