Twitter Blog Feeds

A command line tool to generate an OPML file of your twitter friends blog feeds

The tool loops through all the accounts that are being followed, checking their profiles for a URL.
Each of these URLs are checked for RSS or atom feeds and those feeds are collated into an OPML file.

Note: Whilst OMPL is quite an old format modern RSS readers should still be able to import these files.

Installation

npm install -g twitter-friends-blog-rss

Quick Start

The tool requires you to set up the following four operating system environment variables:

  TWITTER_CONSUMER_KEY
  TWITTER_CONSUMER_SECRET
  TWITTER_ACCESS_TOKEN_KEY
  TWITTER_ACCESS_TOKEN_SECRET

These variables need to be populated with your twitter access tokens.
To get your access tokens you'll need to get a Twitter Developer account
Then to access your keys set up an app in Twitter Apps

(Note: This application uses twitter's User based authentication.)

Once the tool is installed and the environment variables have been set up you simply need to run twitterBlogFeeds from the command line.

Usage

twitterBlogFeeds [options] <file>

Produces an OPML file of all your twitter friend's blog rss feeds

Options:

  -n, --screen-name [value]  twitter screen name (handle) (default: rolivercoffee)
  -v, --verbose              verbose logging
  -h, --help                 output usage information

As a minimum you must supply a file name preferably with an .opml extension.
Whilst it's not required it's probably useful to provide a screen-name too!

Note: the screen-name option is your twitter handle (without the leading @ character)

Basic example:

twitterBlogFeeds -n rolivercoffee MyTwitterFriendsBlogFeeds.opml

This command will retrieve all the rss feeds for all the accounts with urls & rss feeds that @rolivercoffee is following and store the rss feeds in the MyTwitterFriendsBlogFeeds.opml file.

Verbose logging example:.

twitterBlogFeeds -v -n rolivercoffee MyTwitterFriendsBlogFeeds.opml

The -v or --verbose command allows you to see what the program is up to.
This is helpful because it can often take quite some time to run through all the accounts.

Help example:

twitterBlogFeeds --help

The -h or --help allows you to see a list of the command line options.