Turn Twitter Favorites into an RSS feed

I used to use IFTTT to turn my Twitter favorites into Tumblr Quote posts automatically. Since Twitter started locking down their API and shutting IFTTT out, I needed a workaround.

Using node.js, I wrote a quick server that uses the authenticated json API and makes an RSS feed. After a quick deploy to Heroku, all was right with the world again.

web: coffee app.coffeehttp = require 'http' twitter = require 'ntwitter' express = require 'express' moment = require 'moment' app = express() client = new twitter consumer_key: '' consumer_secret: '' access_token_key: '' access_token_secret: '' app.get '/favorites', (req, res) -> client.get '/favorites/list.json', include_entities: 1 count: 20 , (err, data) -> output = """ <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <rss xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" xmlns:twitter="http://api.twitter.com" version="2.0" xmlns:georss="http://www.georss.org/georss"> <channel> <title>Twitter / Favorites from tedkulp</title> <link>http://twitter.com/tedkulp/favorites</link> <atom:link type="application/rss+xml" href="http://api.twitter.com/1/favorites.rss?screen_name=tedkulp" rel="self"/> <description>Twitter updates favorited by Ted Kulp / tedkulp.</description> <language>en-us</language> <ttl>40</ttl> """ data.forEach (tweet) -> output += """ <item> <title>#{tweet.text}</title> <description>#{tweet.text}</description> <pubDate>#{moment(tweet.created_at).utc().format('ddd, DD MMM YYYY HH:mm:ss ZZ')}</pubDate> <guid>http://twitter.com/#{tweet.user.screen_name}/status/#{tweet.id_str}</guid> <link>http://twitter.com/#{tweet.user.screen_name}/status/#{tweet.id_str}</link> <author>#{tweet.user.screen_name}</author> </item> """ output += """ </channel> </rss> """ res.setHeader 'Content-Type', 'application/rss+xml; charset=utf-8' res.send output port = process.env.PORT || 4000 app.listen port console.log "Started on port #{port}"{ "name": "feedme", "version": "0.0.1", "author": "Ted Kulp <ted@tedkulp.com>", "engines": { "node": "0.8.x", "npm": "1.1.x" }, "dependencies": { "coffee-script": "1.4.0", "express": "3.x", "moment": "1.x", "ntwitter": "0.x" } }

Ted Kulp

Ted Kulp is a professional developer, author and technologist with over 15 years of experience from the suburbs of Philadelphia. In 2004, he created the popular content management system, CMS Made Simple and continued to run the project for over 8 years. These days, he makes his living from writing Javascript full-time, writing books, and hacking on open source.

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