twitter-rss-server

twitter-rss-server

Serve Twitter user timelines as RSS feeds.

installation

$ npm install -g twitter-rss-server

setup

Twitter has chosen to put up barriers around their API, so you'll need to Create a Twitter App to get a Consumer Key, Consumer Secret Key, an Access Token, and an Access Token Secret. Oy vey.

Once you have these, you'll be asked for them on your first run of twitter-rss-server. They'll be written as a JSON blob in your system's configuration directory (~/.config/configstore/twitter-rss-server on *nixes).

usage

Use the twitter-rss-server command to run. It defaults to port 6000 on your local machine, but you can use -p or --port to set it to something else.

$ twitter-rss-server

From here you can treat http://localhost:6000/username as a regular RSS feed!

$ curl http://localhost:6000/noffle

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<rss version="2.0" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/">
    <channel>
        <title>Noffle Twitter RSS</title>
        <description>A generated feed of the tweets from Noffle</description>
        <link>https://twitter.com/Noffle</link>
    ...

Each request to the HTTP endpoint makes a fresh request to the Twitter API, making it stateless: fire up the server and grab fresh RSS data whenever you like!

license

MIT