Since I now have no Twitter account and would still like to follow some friends, I’ve written a script which, combined with newspipe, means that I get a daily e-mail with all the tweets of those I’m following. The reason this is non-trivial is that it’s combining multiple RSS feeds into one e-mail—maybe there are other tools that Just Do This, but I wanted to integrate with my existing newspipe setup so I wrote a python script to merge the feeds.

Most of script from here, and Jonathan helped me debug because I was tired and have forgotten most of my Python.

This script grabs the feeds and merges them together:

#+INCLUDE: /home/swhitton/bin/twitterget.py

Here is the newspipe config:

<outline text="Twitter" digest="1" titles="0" ownerEmail="hidden_address">
  <outline text="Twitter"
       description="Microblogging"
       htmlUrl="http://twitter.com/"
       xmlUrl="http://xyrael.net/thisistwitter.xml" />
</outline>

And the cron jobs:

0 18 * * * /home/swhitton/src/newspipe/newspipe.py -i /home/swhitton/etc/newspipe.ini
30 17 * * * /home/swhitton/bin/twitterget.py

Edit 11/vii/2011: Script now excludes @-replies to people you don’t follow.