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Thursday, October 2, 2014

How to Create RSS Feeds for Twitter

How to Create RSS Feeds for Twitter

Without RSS feeds, it is so much difficult to use your Twitter data elsewhere. For instance, you can no longer create recipes in IFTTT that get triggered when you post a new tweet. you cannot import your any Twitter timeline automatically into your blog or your website. You cannot track Twitter search results for certain keywords in your RSS reader.
If you are also missing RSS Feeds in Twitter, here is a new workaround that is much easier to implement and more reliable as well. You can get a Twitter RSS feeds within two minutes. Unbelievable?

Now try it....

The trick is simple to create RSS feeds in Twitter. Twitter offers some widgets to help you embed user timelines into your bog and/or your website. The new workaround simply helps to transforms these Twitter widgets into regular RSS feeds with the help of simple Google  script. Here're the instructions:

Step 1:

Firstly go to your Twitter homepage, now go to setting->Widgets {link} and create a new widget. You can create widgets for user timelines, favorites, Twitter list and search results.

Step 2:

Now, once the new widgets is published, make a note of the widgets ID which you can find in the URL of the widgets.

Step 3:

Next Click here to make a copy of the Google Script and choose Run ->Twitter_RSS to initialize authorize the script. You've to do this only once.

Step 4:

Now go to publish-> De poly as Web App and click the "Save New Version" button Set Anyone, including Anonymous under Who has access to the app and hit Deploy.

Google Script will now create a unique URL, for your RSS web app that will look something like this https://script.google.com/macros/s/ABCD/exec. Just append the Twitter Widget ID {created in Step 2} to this URL. and your RSS feed for Twiteris ready.

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