twitter-rss

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:

Installation

Requirements : python2

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

Launch

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

Using Gunicorn and Supervisor (recommended)

Installing packages

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.

Creating a feed

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.

Use a different port

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.

Daemon

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.

Docker way

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

The Heroku way

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