Twitterss is a project mainly written in Ruby, it's free.
Feeder for Twitter from RSS channels
= twitterss
[email protected] 2009
modified by Mariano Lizarraga
== Description
Twitterss is supposed to be a super simple, lightweight RSS => Twitter script that can support multiple feeds to multiple Twitter accounts. Since Twitter is quickly becoming an SEO/marketing tool, it's common to find yourself maintaining a lot of content from many different sources. This allows your webapp/blog to only support RSS and allow this script to manage the push to Twitter.
This fork of twitterrss adds support for Atom feeds and is specially geared towards allowing you to post to twitter the stories you share on Google Reader.
It also replaces the TinyURL URL shortening service with bit.ly. It also adds the capability to look for the MAX number of stories not yet posted from the provided RSS feed and post them to twitter.
== Requirements
== Usage
Twitterss is meant to be used as a cron job that runs however often.
$ ./twitterss twitterrss.yml
$ ./twitterss -v twitterss.yml # produces a verbose output for debugging == Configuration
Configuration is handled by a YAML file. If you're unfamiliar with YAML look here: http://www.yaml.org/. Here's an example config file:
legalnews: rss: http://www.avvo.com/news.rss login: avvolegalnews password: secret
cnn_money_top_stories: rss: http://rss.cnn.com/rss/money_topstories.rss login: money_news password: secret max: 5
cnn_money_markets: rss: http://rss.cnn.com/rss/money_markets.rss login: money_news password: secret max: 3
This will tell twitterss maintain two twitter accounts. Note that you can point multiple RSS feeds at the same Twitter account if desired. In this way you can have your Twitter feeds act as aggregators of multiple sources. The default value for 'max' is 5.
== Notes
To keep track of posts that have already been sent to Twitter, Twitterrss needs to maintain state. Currently it does this by dumping a file to the home directory of the user running the script (.twitterrss_history).
== License
Copyright (c) 2009 Ben VandenBos
Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:
The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.
THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.