Provided by: tweeper_0.2-3_all
NAME
tweeper - web scraper to convert a Twitter timeline to an RSS feed
SYNOPSIS
tweeper [OPTIONS] URL
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 started as the TWitter fEEd scraPER but support for other web sites has been added. The sites that tweeper is able to scrape and convert to RSS are: • Twitter.com • Pump.io based websites, like Identi.ca • Dilbert.com tweeper can be used as: 1. a command line tool; 2. a filter for feed readers; 3. a web based tool when PHP support is available in the web server.
OPTIONS
-e show links to supported media files in the RSS <enclosure/> element -h, --help show the help message
EXAMPLE OF USE
Getting the RSS feed of some Twitter user: tweeper http://twitter.com/NSACareers Using tweeper as a filter for the Liferea feed reader: liferea-add-feed "|tweeper http://twitter.com/NSAcareers" Using tweeper via web (the symlink must be created only the very first time): sudo ln -s /usr/share/php/tweeper/tweeper.php /var/www xdg-open http://localhost/tweeper.php?src_url=http://twitter.com/NSAcareers
NOTES
In order to use tweeper with a symlink with the apache userdir module, the SymLinksIfOwnerMatch option must be replaced by FollowSymlink in /etc/apache2/mods-enabled/userdir.conf
EXIT STATUS
0 Success !0 Failure
AUTHORS
Antonio Ospite
RESOURCES
Main web site: http://git.ao2.it/tweeper.git
COPYING
Copyright (C) 2013 Antonio Ospite <ospite@studenti.unina.it> This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. 02/19/2014 TWEEPER(1)