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author Walter Cruz <walter@waltercruz.com>
date Fri, 16 May 2008 19:08:06 -0300
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Metadata-Version: 1.0
Name: feed2twitter
Version: 0.1.3
Summary: Publish your feed items to twitter
Home-page: http://www.assembla.com/spaces/feed2twitter
Author: Walter Cruz
Author-email: walter@waltercruz.com
License: AGPL
Description: Feed2twitter updates a twitter account from a xml feed.
        It's a free alternative to services like Twitterfeed.
        
        To install feed2twitter:
        install python-twitter:
        http://code.google.com/p/python-twitter/
        installfeedparser:
        http://www.feedparser.org/
        
        install it with: python setup.py install
        
        Running:
        you need to set your feed and your twitter account.
        Create a folder under the $HOME of the user that will run feed2twitter called .feed2twitter
        Add a file called default.cfg, like this:
        
        [global]
        url = http://example.com/rss
        username = twitter_user
        password = twitter_password
        
        Run it with the command feed2twitter. It will update your twitter with your latest 5 posts, hour by hour
        
        Kudos to Gleicon da Silveira (http://zenmachine.wordpress.com/about/), that give me a idea of the code in a post of his blog
        
Keywords: twitter feed
Platform: UNKNOWN
Classifier: Intended Audience :: Developers
Classifier: Programming Language :: Python
Classifier: Environment :: Console
Classifier: Development Status :: 3 - Alpha