Twitter API v1.1 RSS feeds

Twitter have killed of RSS feeds completely in API v1.1. I used to use this nice little website (http://roomj.com/twitter/connect.php) to pull out RSS from Twitter, ~~but that alas is broken~~.

Edit: @tylercal has now updated http://roomj.com/twitter to handle the new v1.1 API – so if you want to avoid the hassle of installing your own just use his. It produces a nicer feed too with images from tweets displayed ‘n’ all.

Here are the steps I followed to get RSS coming out again at my own site http://www.ianchanning.com/twitter-rss-parser/?home

Google search for ‘twitter to rss’ lead me to the tiny tiny RSS forum (http://tt-rss.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=16&t=2229). The awesome user jdelamater99 there has created a PHP application on Github that you can install on your site to convert the twitter output into RSS.

Create a twitter app (https://dev.twitter.com/apps/new)
Once created, click on ‘Create my access token’ at the bottom of the ‘Details’ tab
Look in the OAuth tab

Download the Twitter-RSS-Parser from github (https://github.com/jdelamater99/Twitter-RSS-Parser/archive/master.zip)
Unzip it and FTP it to your site, note that I renamed the directory to be twitter-rss-parser all lower case. I think github also stick a ‘-master’ on the end of the directory that you don’t want. Obviously you can change this as you like
Copy the config.php-dist file to config.php
Edit the config.php file and modify the following lines to match the OAuth Settings above

$consumer_key = 'xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx';
$consumer_secret = 'xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx';
$token = 'xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx';
$token_secret = 'xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx';

Goto the URL you uploaded e.g. http://ianchanning.com/twitter-rss-parser/?home to check that it works

Ian Channing

Jun 26, 2013

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5 responses to “Twitter API v1.1 RSS feeds”

Ahmed Han (@Ahmed_Han)

Jul 10, 2013 at 9:17 am

I did all the steps. My application is working when I enter a valid user name in $twit_name in config.php. But I want to use this application for following multiple users (e.g.; by passing the user name by a query string). Is that possible?

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1. ianchanning
  
  Jul 15, 2013 at 8:30 am
  
  Just for completeness if anyone comes here, @Ahmed_Han also asked this on Stack Overflow and I replied there: http://webapps.stackexchange.com/questions/41499/any-alternatives-for-twitter-rss-after-native-service-is-shut-down/45963#comment37376_45963
  
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Urs

Mar 11, 2015 at 9:19 am

Hello guy from 2013!

This right here comes so very handy right now that I’d like to Thank You!
Best,
The Future

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Colin Knight

Aug 6, 2015 at 9:36 pm

Hi,

I’ve installed the script as instructed in the public_html folder of my site but when I try ?home I see ‘Home Timeline of @my_username but there are no tweets showing.

I tried also ?screen_name=stephenfry&count=100 but all I get with that is a @blank_username and no tweets.

I’ve double checked the .config file and that looks fine and other than that I can only think it’s the server I’m using but it does support php so should work.

Any idea what’s going wrong please?

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1. ianchanning
  
  Aug 6, 2015 at 9:44 pm
  
  Hi Colin,
  
  If you’ve got PHP on your system – can you find where the logs are?
  
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