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Given a Twitter username, where do you find the RSS feed for that user?

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Give this a try:

http://twitter.com/statuses/user_timeline/{username}.rss

Replace {username} with the Twitter user ID. Now, how to get the ID? Just switch to the old Twitter and go to your profile. There it is, the RSS feed link! Just hover over it, and you would know the Twitter user ID.

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you can also replace .rss with .json to change the format. – amccormack Jun 16 '11 at 2:08
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It is working! The RSS feed for twitter.com/aurora_alerts is twitter.com/statuses/user_timeline/aurora_alerts.rss – Peter Mortensen Sep 26 '11 at 22:12
Is there a way to get the ID without having to join Twitter? – Kyralessa Jan 10 '12 at 18:46
See the answer below - you don't need the numeric ID, the username will work. – Abby T. Miller♦ Feb 16 '12 at 18:16
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This no longer works. There is a new way to fetch a feed. – N.N. Dec 18 '12 at 8:19
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This bookmarklet will show you where the feed is for any user.

http://alexch.github.com/bookmarklets/

Twitter isn't telling you the whole story. The feeds are there and they update. They just took the link out of the user interface. The bookmarklet puts them back. :-)

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As explained in https://dev.twitter.com/docs/faq#11716 http://twitter.com/statuses/user_timeline/username.rss is no longer supported.

The correct way to get a Twitter feed is now as follows:

https://api.twitter.com/1/statuses/user_timeline.rss?screen_name=username

Obviously you will have to replace username with the user name who's feed you are after.

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Unfortunately this is also going to be deprecated (this month, in fact). See dev.twitter.com/discussions/11582 for details. I'm not sure there will be any alternatives, but I'll ask a question about that. – Waldir Mar 12 at 9:05
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You can even get your profile's RSS feed!

The pattern is

http://twitter.com/statuses/user_timeline/username.rss

where username the Twitter username (for example, cshirky).

I tried it, and it works! You just don't need to know the numeric user ID.

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This no longer works. There is a new way to fetch a feed. – N.N. Dec 18 '12 at 9:00
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I made a tool, Twitter RSS Feed Getter, to retrieve RSS feeds for Twitter users. You just type a username into the input field and press the Fetch RSS button.

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Use search.twitter.com (Advanced) then gram the "Feed for this query" link from the top left: http://search.twitter.com/search.atom?q=+from%3A{USER}

i.e. http://search.twitter.com/search.atom?q=+from%3Aaplusk for Ashton Kutcher (aplusk).

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Twitter's public search API isn't very reliable. It won't give you posts older than a certain limit (which they vary based on traffic), and it's also subject to throttling. Use the main site's RSS link instead -- at least until they disable it instead of just hiding it -- which you can find with a click using alexchaffee.com/bookmarklets/#twitterrss – Alex Chaffee Sep 15 '11 at 22:24

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