r3nor / rssitter

Twitter-like rss feed

RSSITTER

Twitter via RSS with privacy

Rssitter allows you to follow your favourite twitters without Twitter even knowing it. Rssitter uses Nitter's rss feed in order to gather the latest tweets from your favourite accounts and builds a twitter-like feed so you can read them. We will never connect you to Twitter so your privacy is safe using Rssitter.

At the moment, rssitter is serverless but I'm working on a flask implementation so you can follow your accounts and have a user. At the moment the best way to use it is to download the two files and use it locally.

Use it with 5 simple steps.

1. Download or clone this repo.
2. Open js/fetch.js with your favourite editor.
3. Enter your favourite rss feeds to the rss_list variable.
4. Open index.html with your browser.
5. Enjoy

FUTURE: NOT YET IMPLEMENTED

I will be using Flask for the server. It is lightweight and I'm able to use Python, a pl wich I am much more familiarized.

Self hosting

1. Install python3, pip and virtualenv.
2. Prepare a virtual environment:
   • python3 -m venv venv
   • source venv/bin/activate

Now you are inside of the virtual environment for python.

3. [env] Update pip
   • pip install --upgrade pip
4. [env] Install the dependencies:
   • pip3 install flask flask-sqlalchemy flask-migrate python-dotenv flask-wtf flask-login email-validator feedparser

   It may require you to use sudo

5. [env] Initialize and prepare the database.
   • flask db init
   • flask db migrate
   • flask db upgrade
6. [env] Run the application.
   • flask run
7. Go to "http://localhost:5000/" and enjoy.