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Tool: Twitter RSS Feed Getter

Written by Charlie on 2011-05-18

Update: Now this uses my new TwitRSS.me tool. Please donate and keep TwitRSS.me online.

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. The with_replies feature is discussed in the comments. You can copy and paste the URL you're sent to should you need to add it to your feed reader.

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#28

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.

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2011-06-10
#34

Charlie

Comment 34

Hey Lish,

Glad to hear that it worked for you, & I've now fixed the ampersand problem you hit blush

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2011-06-10
#35

lish

Comment 35

hahaha i was wondering what the hell happened to the site. fortunately i haven't had occasion to use it again until just now. ;)

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2011-06-15
#39

Doug

Great Tool!

This is a great way to find your Twitter RSS Feed! I love it...saves so much time. Thank you!

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2011-07-21
#112

Tim

Comment 112

Thanks for the info, but wtf is up with the font in your comment boxes. It's like I have double vision.

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2011-09-02
#113

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...

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2011-09-02
#115

Anonymous coward

Comment 115

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.

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2011-09-14
#116

Todd Lohenry

Comment 116

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...

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2011-09-25
#117

Vanessa

THANK YOU!

This is so helpful. Thank you so much.

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2011-10-20
#118

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 ondev.twitter.com.

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2011-11-12
#157

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

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2012-01-14
#158

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 onthe home timeline API page.

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2012-01-14
#159

H

Comment 159

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!

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2012-01-17
#160

Charlie

Comment 160

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.

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2012-01-17
#202

Marina

Comment 202

THANKS!

it does work and is really useful.

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2012-05-10
#203

Charlie

No worries

Glad it helped, Marina :-) And other folk who have found it useful.

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2012-05-10
#237

lish

Comment 237

oops, it broke again.

https://twitter.com/coastalkitchen

results in:

Sorry, that page does not exist

but the twitter page is there...

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2012-12-07
#238

lish

Comment 238

haha what am i talking about, you only want the username not the url. NM, I CLEARLY FORGOT HOW TO READ.

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2012-12-07
#262

Latif Ramadan

perfect..

No Word except "perfect". this is tool help many people to find their twitter RSS Feed

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2013-05-22
#264

Rob

Comment 264

This is awesome! Thank you so much Charlie!!

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2013-05-24
#275

Jacob

Comment 275

Could you add one that scrapes a user's timeline, not their own tweets? That is, I'm looking for a way to get an RSS feed of what I see when I click "Home" at twitter.com, not "Me".

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2013-08-13
#276

Charlie

Comment 276

Hey Jacob,

No I'm afraid I can't do that -- the home feed that you get is only accessible to you, and not publicly available. You might be able to use the code from here, but I've not tested it myself: http://blog.fogcat.co.uk/2013/01/17/creating-an-rss-feed-for-your-twitter-home-page/

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2013-08-13
#277

ty

Comment 277

Is it possible to make it detect the replies too? It seems it's showing the retweets and the general tweets, but not the replies.

Thanks alot for this btw, it's great

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2013-08-19
#278

ty

Comment 278

I'm talking about more popular twitter pages. They don't show the replies at the twitter.com/username/ adress, but at twitter.com/username/with_replies

sry for my English

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2013-08-19
#280

Anonymous coward

With Replies added

Hey Ty,

I've added a with_replies checkbox that gets /user/with_replies instead of /user . Can't see much difference on the feed I tested. Let me know if it works for you...

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2013-08-29
#284

Sargon

thank you

thanks for creating this great service. What are your plans on maintaining it or keeping it available? Do you need support? Works great!

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2013-09-07
#291

Charlie

Comment 291

@Sargon

Great, glad its useful for you. Its useful for me, and it will stay online and maintaned until it stops being useful, or it gets to be too much to maintain. If that happens I'll post the code and someone else can run it if they want.

Actually, if anyone knows a bit of perl, the code that is running it is pretty much the code fromthis thread.

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2013-09-08
#296

Valerie

Comment 296

Hi, this tool is great to get the new url for people tweets!

Before they changed the API I was using 3 different types of feeds:

-I used http://search.twitter.com/search.rss?q=%40UserAccountName to get feeds of each tweet containing the @user name

-I used http://search.twitter.com/search.rss?q=%23TopicName to get feeds of each tweet that contained the #topic name

-I used http://api.twitter.com/1/statuses/user_timeline.rss?screen_name=UserAccountName to get feeds of all tweets published by the user.

I believe that this tool is a substitute of this first example.

Do you thing there is a way to get also the other 2 back? thanks a lot

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2013-10-21
#297

Valerie

Comment 297

Just a correction, I did mention that this tool is a replacement for the first type of feed I listed but I actually realized that it is an alternative to the third example I listed (it shows all the tweets of a certain user but not all the search results for a user name). Unfortunately the search results feeds don't work anymore (error code 68, The Twitter REST API v1 is no longer active. Please migrate to API v1.1. https://dev.twitter.com/docs/api/1.1/overview). Does anyone know of a way to get the search results feeds back working or they are simply no longer available? Thanks

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2013-10-21
#298

Anonymous coward

Search feeds

Hey Valerie,

I don't host a search feeds thing, but I did write some code you can deploy on your own server that does that.

http://www.perlmonks.org/?node_id=1039382

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2013-10-21
#299

Septiyo

Great Tools

Hi Charlie, its Awesome tools. Thanks.

But How to collect RSS Feed from Twitter Search?

Because I Need That for using at Feedburner.

I Hope you can Answer my question.

Thanks

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2013-10-31
#311

travis

twitter rss feeds

You can easily access all feeds like this http://ta.gd/how-to-get-twitter-rssfeed-2013

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2013-12-07
#373

Anon

cetzf

Thank you!!! no other word... Thank you!!!!!!

and thank you again

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2014-03-14
#451

Anon

Comment 451

Seriously this is sooooo useful. Thanks so much for creating it :-)

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2014-05-15
#454

penerjemah

Thank you Bro...

Thaaaaaaaannnnnnnnnnkkkkkkkkkkk yyyyyyyoooooouuuuuuu from Indonesia :D

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2014-05-17
#652

skulking coyote

Comment 652

The "with replies" option isn't working for me. It just gives me the regular feed without replies.

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2014-10-19
#656

Danny

Interactive Designer

Thanks so much for putting this together. I've been looking for a solution like this to integrate into a digital signage application and this worked perfectly.

Once question: how often is this refreshed/cached to keep new content updating?

Thanks again and keep up the good work! ~Danny

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2014-11-04
#719

Anon

Comment 719

Hello. Thanks for the useful tool,although it's not working properly for me.It does find the rss feed of a twitter user but doesn't refresh when I am using an rss reader (Feedly).Any suggestions?

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2015-06-10
#746

Lee

Just what's needed!

Great service! I have been using the form over at TwitterRSS.me and it's great. Instead of using several different tools to track the tweets I can now just add a feed.

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2015-12-10
#753

Evo

Comment 753

Hmm. How often are the feeds set to update. I created 8 of them 24 hours ago, and none have updated with new tweets.

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2016-01-16
#756

VSR

Feature request

Hi Charlie!

I am a non-IT guy and recent user of TwitRSS.me This is very helpful and will be more helpful, if you can extract Pictures/Images/Tweets/GIFs/Videos also from tweet itself and display it in same rss feed post.

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2016-02-05
#790

John

Boss (a little boss... of myself actually)

Thanks SO much as this is SO useful and you are SO nice to offer this free x

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2017-01-28
#837

Anon

Comment 837

hi, is it still working ?thanks. hi, is it still working ?thanks.

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2018-10-18