Tool: Twitter RSS Feed Getter
Update: Twitter have closed their open access API, so this won’t work as of Mid June 2013. I⁽m looking at ways round this. Maybe you should consider moving to a service that values openness?
What's this?
Love it or loathe it, it looks like Twitter is likely to remain an important part of the infrastructure of the interwebs for some time. Back in August 2010, Twitter removed RSS feeds from people's profile pages. They haven't dropped RSS support altogether, just hidden it in the API. Now, I am a big fan of RSS. Its a sort of lingua franca for the web. I don't want to have to look up the correct API calls just to see a feed of someone's tweets. Hence this tool, which fetches the RSS feed for a particular Twitter user. Type the username, hit submit and you're done. You can copy and paste the URL you're sent to should you need to add it to your feed reader.
Comments
lish
perfect.
thank you! i've been trying all day to get a friggin' RSS set up since twitter changed their shit, & your tool's the only one that worked.
Friday, 10th June 2011 at 10:49:25
Charlie
Hey Lish,
Glad to hear that it worked for you, & I've now fixed the ampersand problem you hit *blush*
Friday, 10th June 2011 at 13:14:06
lish
hahaha i was wondering what the hell happened to the site. fortunately i haven't had occasion to use it again until just now. ;)
Wednesday, 15th June 2011 at 17:01:09
Doug
Great Tool!
This is a great way to find your Twitter RSS Feed! I love it...saves so much time. Thank you!
Thursday, 21st July 2011 at 18:17:35
Tim
Thanks for the info, but wtf is up with the font in your comment boxes. It's like I have double vision.
Friday, 2nd September 2011 at 11:47:40
Charlie Harvey
Font Shadow
@Tim
*heh* I've been playing around with CSS3 text shadow, that's what is making you feel like you've been drinking!
It looks OK from here and from the various machines on which I have tested, but maybe your monitor renders differently. Anyhow in the interests of legibility I switched it back to normal. I might switch it back again in the future of course...
Friday, 2nd September 2011 at 16:31:44
Anonymous coward
Thank you so much for this!!!! I use Outlook at home and the office and have 99% of all my tweets set up as RSS. When they removed the link for the RSS feed recently (i kept my account in the old version to keep the rss feed link until they forced the change on me) i was furious as I couldn't add any new users.
Wednesday, 14th September 2011 at 21:21:46
Todd Lohenry
Thanks for doing this. Is there an api for turning twitter searches into rss feeds as well? I used to be able to create persistent searches for what people were tweeting about and turn them into rss feeds but not any longer. That is infinitely more valueable to me than what one person is tweeting...
Sunday, 25th September 2011 at 00:37:29
Charlie
Search API
Hey Todd,
Yeh, there is a twitter search API. If you wanted an RSS feed of #OWS results you'd do something like this:
http://search.twitter.com/search.rss?q=OWS. Just add your terms after the q=. The API is documented over on dev.twitter.com.
Saturday, 12th November 2011 at 10:24:27
Jason
Home Stream?
Definitely appreciate your taking the time to share this utility, but what I really need is my Home Stream in RSS. I suppose I can get that by manually pulling the RSS for all 300 of the users I follow
Note http://gtweetapp.appspot.com/ does this, but lately the URL they generate seems to die out after a few hours (ie I guess Twitter cuts it off.)
Anyone know of another solution? Thanks
Saturday, 14th January 2012 at 11:41:57
Charlie
Getting your timeline from twitter
@Jason
Well it is possible, but you need to be authenticated with Twitter for it to work. You have to register an application, get an OAuth string approved from your twitter account and then make a query like.
http://api.twitter.com/1/statuses/home_timeline.format
This is (sort of) documented on the home timeline API page.
Saturday, 14th January 2012 at 17:41:34
H
I've been using this tool for a while, and it's great! However, it doesn't seem to be working for me anymore. Has something changed on twitter's end? Thanks!
Tuesday, 17th January 2012 at 06:58:39
Charlie
Hmmmmm, that's very strange.
Everything seems OK with twitter and it is working for me from here.
Must be be a glitch in the matrix.
Tuesday, 17th January 2012 at 16:55:35
Charlie
No worries
Glad it helped, Marina :-) And other folk who have found it useful.
Thursday, 10th May 2012 at 13:12:50
lish
oops, it broke again.
https://twitter.com/coastalkitchen
results in:
Sorry, that page does not exist
but the twitter page is there...
Friday, 7th December 2012 at 00:57:09
lish
haha what am i talking about, you only want the username not the url. NM, I CLEARLY FORGOT HOW TO READ.
Friday, 7th December 2012 at 00:57:52
Latif Ramadan
perfect..
No Word except "perfect". this is tool help many people to find their twitter RSS Feed
Wednesday, 22nd May 2013 at 11:00:25
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