*2rss

Turn public Facebook & Twitter timelines into RSS

Prerequisites

• Puppeteer

Usage

Invocation:

node SCRIPT URL OUTPUTFILE

Examples:

$ node fb2rss/tw2rss.js https://twitter.com/ndurner ndurner.rss

$ node fb2rss/fb2rss.js https://de-de.facebook.com/diezeit diezeit.rss

Notes

• Running this frequently (e.g. every hour) will entail an IP address ban
• only the first batch of content is saved currently (~ 20 posts)
• Running on AWS

  • EC2 t2.nano seems sufficient

  • EC2 instance starts can be scheduled cheaply through AWS Lambda

    Node.js script:

    var aws = require('aws-sdk');
    var https = require('https');
    var url = require('url');
 
exports.handler = function(event, context) {
        var ec2 = new aws.EC2({ region: '✍ instance region here ✍' });
        
        var params = {
            InstanceIds: [
                '✍ instance-id-here ✍',
            ],
            AdditionalInfo: '',
            DryRun: false
        };
        
        ec2.startInstances(params, function(err, data) {
            if (err)
                console.log(err, err.stack);
            else
                console.log(data);
        });    
    }

  IAM role:

    {
        "Version": "2012-10-17",
        "Statement": [
            {
                "Effect": "Allow",
                "Action": [
                    "logs:CreateLogGroup",
                    "logs:CreateLogStream",
                    "logs:PutLogEvents"
                ],
                "Resource": "arn:aws:logs:*:*:*"
            },
            {
                "Effect": "Allow",
                "Action": [
                    "ec2:StartInstances",
                    "ec2:StopInstances"
                ],
                "Resource": "*"
            }
        ]
    }