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Feed2twister is a simple script to post items from RSS/ATOM feeds to
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[Twister](http://twister.net.co).
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**Note:** If you upgrade an old installation where you don't have
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`feed2twister.conf` yet, use a copy of `feed2twister.conf.example`s and
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edit it so that it contains similar settings to those you had at `conf.py`
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### Prerequisites
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* Python 2
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* [Twister](http://twister.net.co/) (of course)
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* [python-bitcoinrpc](https://pypi.python.org/pypi/python-bitcoinrpc/)
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* [feedparser](https://pypi.python.org/pypi/feedparser/)
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* URL shortener dependencies (see `use_shortener` at `feedparser.conf.example`)
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### Installing
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* run `git submodule update --init` (to install a [patched
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version](https://github.com/thedod/python-bitcoinrpc/tree/unicode-fix-for-twister)
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of bitcoin-rpc (a twister-related unicode fix). If you don't have
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git(?) you can [download the
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zip](https://github.com/thedod/python-bitcoinrpc/archive/unicode-fix-for-twister.zip),
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and copy the bitcoinrpc directory into this directory (overwrite
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whatever you have ther now. probably an empty folder).
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* Copy `feed2twister.conf.example` to `feed2twister.conf` and edit it
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to taste.
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### Running
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Normally, you would run this as a cron task:
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`/path/to/this/feed2twister.py [-c CONFIGFILE] [N]`
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if [optional] `N` is supplied, it's used as the maximum items to post
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(per feed). Default is (by presence order) max_new_items_per_feed from
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conf file or 0.
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If there are more than `N` new items in a feed, "over quota" items get
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marked as if they were posted (this can be handy when you add a new feed
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with a long history).
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Specifically, `python feed2twister.py 0` would make all feeds "catch up"
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without posting anything.
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if [optional] `CONFIGFILE` is supplied, it is used as a custom config
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file, instead of the first file found in the following list:
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`./feed2twister.conf`, `~/.config/feed2twister.conf`,
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`~/.feed2twister.conf`
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### User defined URL shortener
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There is now an option to use your own URL shortener by defining
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`use_shortener = user_shortener` at `feed2twister.conf`.
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If you're looking for ideas,
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the shortener I use is [here](https://github.com/thedod/private_url_shortener#readme).
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### Hidden configuration
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Some more options are available:
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* `do_not_include_link` (boolean, default False): if True, feed2twister
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will NOT prepend the feed item title with the item link before posting
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it to twister.
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* `skip_first_title_char` (int, default None): if set, feed2twister will
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strip this amount of character from the begining of the feed item
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title. Usefull to skip your login from app.net feed for example.
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