Given a Twitter username, where do you find the RSS feed for that user?
6 Answers
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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1It is working! The RSS feed for twitter.com/aurora_alerts is twitter.com/statuses/user_timeline/aurora_alerts.rss Sep 26, 2011 at 22:12
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See the answer below - you don't need the numeric ID, the username will work.– hairboatFeb 16, 2012 at 18:16
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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. :-)
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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2Unfortunately 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. Mar 12, 2013 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.
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.
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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2Twitter'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 Sep 15, 2011 at 22:24
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This is not supported anymore "The Twitter REST API v1 is no longer active. Please migrate to API v1.1. dev.twitter.com/docs/api/1.1/overview." Oct 29, 2013 at 20:54