Rss-generator for Twitter

• Doesn't make use of Twitter API (no registration needed, no 180 requests limitation, ...)
• Support account and hashtag following
• Option to append pic.twitter.com images in feed
• Generate a valid RSS-feed

A running instance is available here: https://wtf.roflcopter.fr/twitter-rss/ on PoGo606's server (https://wtf.roflcopter.fr/links/pogo).

The theme can be found here: https://github.com/PoGo606/twitter-rss/commit/9835654ac549b01b76d4a87cf9e4c096578b30f2

Default theme: Pogo's theme:

Requirements : python2

sudo apt-get install git python-pip
    
git clone git://github.com/Astalaseven/twitter-rss.git
sudo pip install -r requirements.txt

You can edit local_settings.ini file to change settings (use settings.ini as template, local_settings.ini will not be overwritten on update).

cd twitter-rss/
python2 server.py

sudo apt-get install gunicorn supervisor

Modify supervisord.conf to reflect your installation:

directory=/home/asta/twitter-rss/    # directory where `server.py` is located

You can check if supervisor works well:

sudo supervisord -n -c ~/twitter-rss/supervisord.conf

and place it in the right place to be launch on startup:

sudo mv ~/twitter-rss/supervisord.conf /etc/supervisor/

Gunicorn will launch a webserver that can be used to create new feeds, and launch a script to update the feeds.

Supervisor is set to check all scripts are running or if needed relaunch them. Ubuntu should automatically launch it on startup.

If the webserver is running, you can create a feed by:

• using the web form served by Gunicorn (http://your_server:5000/),
• opening http://your_server:5000/user/choosen-user.xml or http://your_server:5000/htag/choosen-hashtag,
• writing them down in user/user.txt and htag/htag.txt.

If you want to launch twitter-rss on a different port than Gunicorn's default (8000), you need to edit the supervisord.conf file to:

command=/usr/bin/gunicorn --bind=0.0.0.0:5000 server:app  # where 5000 is the new port

supervisord.conf is already configured to use Gunicorn on port 5000.

A daemon script is now available to be run on Debian-like system (tested on Ubuntu 13.04) thanks to [PoGo606] 1.

sudo mkdir -p /var/log/twitter-rss
sudo mkdir -p /var/www/twitter-rss
cd /var/www/twitter-rss
sudo chmod +x twitter-rss.init.d.debian
sudo chmod +x run.py
sudo touch /var/log/twitter-rss/twitter-rss.log
sudo chmod 640 /var/log/twitter-rss/twitter-rss.log
sudo ./twitter-rss.init.d.debian start

You also need to change the INSTALL_DIR variable in config.py to be the same as TWRSS_DIR variable in twitter-rss.init.d.debian.

If the server doesn't run, try to remove the --background option in twitter-rss.init.d.debian to debug.

Thanks to [djmaze] 2, it is now possible to run twitter-rss using [Docker] 3.

Explanations on how to get docker working are here: http://www.docker.io/gettingstarted/ (Docker only works on 64bit systems for now)

After installing docker, you can build the docker image and run it:

sudo docker build -t twitter-rss .
sudo docker run -d -p 5000:5000 twitter-rss

Or use [fig] 4:

sudo fig up -d

1. Install Heroku-toolbelt
2. Configure your account heroku login

heroku create <app-name>
git push heroku master  # upload your application to Heroku
heroku open  # Open your application in your browser