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tonycelestino
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09/22/11 01:40 PM (12 years ago)

Twitter RSS Feed with image xml element (yahoo pipe)

Hi, I want to add a twitter timeline RSS Feed that shows these items: - Title = Name - Link = Link to the twitter status - Description = Tweet message - Media = Account thumbnail The only thing I'm struggling with is including a 'enclosure' or 'media' element on the feed. Could someone help me out? I'm using pipes for this. Is there another way of doing this? Thanks!
 
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09/22/11 01:58 PM (12 years ago)
Funny... Just figured it out! :P
 
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11/27/11 12:40 PM (12 years ago)
hey how did you do this i would love to know.
 
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11/27/11 04:15 PM (12 years ago)
Hay Jack, I used Pipes (pipes.yahoo.com) to retrieve the twitter feed and another service to retrieve the twitter avatar (I dont remember what service it was). But last time I used it on an app it was broken and since twitter improved their mobile experience I'm using a regular Web URL to the twitter page instead of RSS. Much easier and the twitter interface looks great now. Anyway, if you want to try I suggest you go to yahoo pipes and search for 'twitter avatar'. Good luck.
 
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11/27/11 04:45 PM (12 years ago)
Thanks is the app avaible on the app store?
 
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11/27/11 04:48 PM (12 years ago)
No, all my apps are using the web url scheme now. If you figure out a better way of doing this please share it here! =)
 
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11/27/11 05:23 PM (12 years ago)
alright i think i have firguired out a way. use http://api.twitter.com/1/statuses/user_timeline.rss?screen_name=xxxxx in the rss feed but replace the xxxxx with the twitter username this worked for me so far. And how did you retrieve the twitter feed in pipes/
 
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11/27/11 05:28 PM (12 years ago)
You are right, thats the rss for the timeline. The problem is that it doesn't come with an image so I used pipes to mashup the timeline feed with the user image, I just can't remember the name of the service that gets the user image from twitter. Pipes seems difficult at first but they're actually very logical once you play around with it for a while. I haven't used them in a while so I can't give you a walk-through but you should just play with it (look at existing pipes and you will see some of the logic I'm talking about).
 
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11/27/11 06:20 PM (12 years ago)
yeahhh but what url or rss feed would i use to extract the person tweets?
 

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