Replacement for Twitter RSS API?

Question

I am currently using the Twitter RSS API ( example ) to extract tweets for people for the application. However, as soon as version 1.1 of their API is released, I can no longer do this. What simple replacement can I use for this?

Answer 1

Use Twitter RSS - Google Apps Script from github to convert Twitter API 1.1 to RSS. With this option, you can get search results, user timelines, favorite users, or even Twitter lists.

Answer 2

Unfortunately, the answer is: "No."

Twitter continues to block its platform since the transition to OAuth. If you want to add content to Twitter, you can do it easily. If you want to receive content from Twitter, you will need to meet Twitter requirements.

RSS was an easy way to get content from Twitter, and so they killed it. They will tell you that this is not actually used, but it’s a load of the bull, and they know it, but it sounds good, and most people just swallow it.

There is a workaround that you can use until March 2013:

https://api.twitter.com/1/statuses/user_timeline/UserName.rss

Replace "UserName" with your Twitter username.

But after March / April 2013 this will stop working and you will have to use OAuth and json to parse Twitter feeds.

Answer 3

I put together two scripts and instructions with php licenses that you can get and cache Twitter user timelines as RSS ..

The most important thing is to cache tweets, since you are allowed to call the API 15 times in 15 minutes.

Look at twitterrss.net

Answer 4

I have been looking for an answer for this for a while, mainly since I wanted to provide a replacement for Twitter triggers in IFTTT. When IFTTT deleted them, we could use Twitter's RSS feeds. However, now that their API v1 has retired, you must authenticate any requests and they no longer exit the RSS feeds. This is a shame because it closes the door for many newbie developers there.

I would recommend checking twitter-rss.com in the answer above, but you can check out the solution I came up with. It is called Twools, and it is almost ready.

Twools started as a way to get RSS feeds back from Twitter. Twitter resigned version 1 of their API in June 2013, as well as retirement RSS feeds. In view of and also the lack of access to RSS feeds, you need to authenticate to use an API that raises the bar for Twitter users and developers. I intended to make it as easy as possible to install, however you need to install it on your own site (requires PHP). This is just a case of editing a few lines in a file (with information about your Twitter application) and uploading it to your website. Twools offers several RSS feeds from the Twitter API:

• The timeline of your home
• User Timeline (your or another user)
• Your mention
• Your favorites
• Time List (from the list you have)
• Received direct messages (disabled by default)
• Direct messages Sent (disabled by default)
• Twitter Search
• New subscribers
• New friends

You can filter the results from the Twitter API, only the output of tweets containing certain keywords, hashtags or screen names or even the application used to send Tweet. In addition, you can filter based on the user (currently their location and language). Finally, you can change the data displayed in the RSS feed by deleting URLs, screen names, hashtags, etc. or share your recipe with other folders. Like the RSS feed generator, Twools has a basic direct spam filter (experimental use at your own risk!) And a simple tool for managing social media (mostly an HTML version of RSS filters). You can also monitor your use of the API on the status page.

With Twools and your application, you can

• Your tweets when you mention a specific hashtag
• Your favorite tweets:
• Get new subscribers from a specific country or location
• Get tweets when someone mentions Starbucks negatively in Tweet in the UK
• Get tweets when someone reads an article on your site.

For more information see http://twools.it/

Answer 5

I recently found an alternative way to use Google Apps, I just forgot to publish it. There are instructions on how to do this, and more information in Digital Inspirations .