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RSS-From-Twitter-0.02
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/ RSS::From::Twitter

NAME

RSS::From::Twitter - Convert Twitter page to RSS

VERSION

version 0.02

SYNOPSIS

 # Use command-line scripts get-rss-from-twitter{,-list,-search,-user}

AUTHOR

Steven Haryanto <stevenharyanto@gmail.com>

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

This software is copyright (c) 2013 by Steven Haryanto.

This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as the Perl 5 programming language system itself.

DESCRIPTION

FUNCTIONS

None are exported by default, but they are exportable.

get_rss_from_twitter(%args) -> [status, msg, result, meta]

In June 2013, Twitter retired the RSS v1 API (e.g. http://search.twitter.com/search.rss?q=blah, etc). However, its replacement, the v1.1 API, is not as straightforward to use (e.g. needs auth). This function scrapes the Twitter search result page (e.g. https://twitter.com/search?q=blah) and converts it to RSS. I wrote this because I have other scripts expecting RSS input.

Expect breakage from time to time though, as scraping method is rather fragile.

Arguments ('*' denotes required arguments):

  • title => str

    RSS title.

  • ua => obj

    Supply a custom LWP::UserAgent object.

    If supplied, will be used instead of the default LWP::UserAgent object.

  • url* => str

    URL, e.g. https://twitter.com/foo or file:/test.html.

Return value:

Returns an enveloped result (an array). First element (status) is an integer containing HTTP status code (200 means OK, 4xx caller error, 5xx function error). Second element (msg) is a string containing error message, or 'OK' if status is 200. Third element (result) is optional, the actual result. Fourth element (meta) is called result metadata and is optional, a hash that contains extra information.

get_rss_from_twitter_list(%args) -> [status, msg, result, meta]

This function calls getrssfrom_twitter() with URL: https//twitter.com/USERNAME/LISTNAME.

Arguments ('*' denotes required arguments):

  • listname* => str

    User's list name.

  • ua => obj

    Supply a custom LWP::UserAgent object.

    If supplied, will be used instead of the default LWP::UserAgent object.

  • username* => str

    Twitter username.

Return value:

Returns an enveloped result (an array). First element (status) is an integer containing HTTP status code (200 means OK, 4xx caller error, 5xx function error). Second element (msg) is a string containing error message, or 'OK' if status is 200. Third element (result) is optional, the actual result. Fourth element (meta) is called result metadata and is optional, a hash that contains extra information.

get_rss_from_twitter_search(%args) -> [status, msg, result, meta]

This function calls getrssfrom_twitter() with URL: https//twitter.com/search?q=QUERY.

Arguments ('*' denotes required arguments):

  • query* => str

    Search query.

  • ua => obj

    Supply a custom LWP::UserAgent object.

    If supplied, will be used instead of the default LWP::UserAgent object.

Return value:

Returns an enveloped result (an array). First element (status) is an integer containing HTTP status code (200 means OK, 4xx caller error, 5xx function error). Second element (msg) is a string containing error message, or 'OK' if status is 200. Third element (result) is optional, the actual result. Fourth element (meta) is called result metadata and is optional, a hash that contains extra information.

get_rss_from_twitter_user(%args) -> [status, msg, result, meta]

This function calls getrssfrom_twitter() with URL: https//twitter.com/USERNAME.

Arguments ('*' denotes required arguments):

  • ua => obj

    Supply a custom LWP::UserAgent object.

    If supplied, will be used instead of the default LWP::UserAgent object.

  • username* => str

    Twitter username.

Return value:

Returns an enveloped result (an array). First element (status) is an integer containing HTTP status code (200 means OK, 4xx caller error, 5xx function error). Second element (msg) is a string containing error message, or 'OK' if status is 200. Third element (result) is optional, the actual result. Fourth element (meta) is called result metadata and is optional, a hash that contains extra information.