NAME
get-rss-from-twitter - Convert Twitter page to RSS
VERSION
This document describes version 0.08 of get-rss-from-twitter (from Perl distribution RSS-From-Twitter), released on 2017-07-10.
SYNOPSIS
Usage:
% get-rss-from-twitter [options] <url>DESCRIPTION
In June 2013, Twitter retired the RSS v1 API (e.g. http://search.twitter.com/search.rss?q=blah, etc). However, its replacement, the v1.1 API, is not as straightforward to use (e.g. needs auth). This function scrapes the Twitter search result page (e.g. https://twitter.com/search?q=blah) and converts it to RSS. I wrote this because I have other scripts expecting RSS input.
Expect breakage from time to time though, as scraping method is rather fragile.
OPTIONS
* marks required options.
Main options
- --title=s
-
RSS title.
- --ua-json=s
-
Supply a custom LWP::UserAgent object (JSON-encoded).
See
--ua. - --ua=s
-
Supply a custom LWP::UserAgent object.
If supplied, will be used instead of the default LWP::UserAgent object.
- --url=s*
-
URL, e.g. https://twitter.com/foo or file:/test.html.
Configuration options
- --config-path=filename
-
Set path to configuration file.
Can be specified multiple times.
- --config-profile=s
-
Set configuration profile to use.
- --no-config
-
Do not use any configuration file.
Environment options
Output options
- --format=s
-
Choose output format, e.g. json, text.
Default value:
undef - --json
-
Set output format to json.
- --naked-res
-
When outputing as JSON, strip result envelope.
Default value:
0By default, when outputing as JSON, the full enveloped result is returned, e.g.:
[200,"OK",[1,2,3],{"func.extra"=>4}]The reason is so you can get the status (1st element), status message (2nd element) as well as result metadata/extra result (4th element) instead of just the result (3rd element). However, sometimes you want just the result, e.g. when you want to pipe the result for more post-processing. In this case you can use `--naked-res` so you just get:
[1,2,3]
Other options
COMPLETION
This script has shell tab completion capability with support for several shells.
bash
To activate bash completion for this script, put:
complete -C get-rss-from-twitter get-rss-from-twitterin your bash startup (e.g. ~/.bashrc). Your next shell session will then recognize tab completion for the command. Or, you can also directly execute the line above in your shell to activate immediately.
It is recommended, however, that you install modules using cpanm-shcompgen which can activate shell completion for scripts immediately.
tcsh
To activate tcsh completion for this script, put:
complete get-rss-from-twitter 'p/*/`get-rss-from-twitter`/'in your tcsh startup (e.g. ~/.tcshrc). Your next shell session will then recognize tab completion for the command. Or, you can also directly execute the line above in your shell to activate immediately.
It is also recommended to install shcompgen (see above).
other shells
For fish and zsh, install shcompgen as described above.
CONFIGURATION FILE
This script can read configuration files. Configuration files are in the format of IOD, which is basically INI with some extra features.
By default, these names are searched for configuration filenames (can be changed using --config-path): ~/.config/get-rss-from-twitter.conf, ~/get-rss-from-twitter.conf, or /etc/get-rss-from-twitter.conf.
All found files will be read and merged.
To disable searching for configuration files, pass --no-config.
You can put multiple profiles in a single file by using section names like [profile=SOMENAME] or [SOMESECTION profile=SOMENAME]. Those sections will only be read if you specify the matching --config-profile SOMENAME.
You can also put configuration for multiple programs inside a single file, and use filter program=NAME in section names, e.g. [program=NAME ...] or [SOMESECTION program=NAME]. The section will then only be used when the reading program matches.
Finally, you can filter a section by environment variable using the filter env=CONDITION in section names. For example if you only want a section to be read if a certain environment variable is true: [env=SOMEVAR ...] or [SOMESECTION env=SOMEVAR ...]. If you only want a section to be read when the value of an environment variable has value equals something: [env=HOSTNAME=blink ...] or [SOMESECTION env=HOSTNAME=blink ...]. If you only want a section to be read when the value of an environment variable does not equal something: [env=HOSTNAME!=blink ...] or [SOMESECTION env=HOSTNAME!=blink ...]. If you only want a section to be read when an environment variable contains something: [env=HOSTNAME*=server ...] or [SOMESECTION env=HOSTNAME*=server ...]. Note that currently due to simplistic parsing, there must not be any whitespace in the value being compared because it marks the beginning of a new section filter or section name.
List of available configuration parameters:
format (see --format)
naked_res (see --naked-res)
title (see --title)
ua (see --ua)
url (see --url)ENVIRONMENT
GET_RSS_FROM_TWITTER_OPT => str
Specify additional command-line options.
FILES
~/.config/get-rss-from-twitter.conf
~/get-rss-from-twitter.conf
/etc/get-rss-from-twitter.conf
HOMEPAGE
Please visit the project's homepage at https://metacpan.org/release/RSS-From-Twitter.
SOURCE
Source repository is at https://github.com/perlancar/perl-RSS-From-Twitter.
BUGS
Please report any bugs or feature requests on the bugtracker website https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Dist/Display.html?Name=RSS-From-Twitter
When submitting a bug or request, please include a test-file or a patch to an existing test-file that illustrates the bug or desired feature.
AUTHOR
perlancar <perlancar@cpan.org>
COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE
This software is copyright (c) 2017, 2015, 2014, 2013 by perlancar@cpan.org.
This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as the Perl 5 programming language system itself.