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Is it possible to get my twitter timeline (i.e. the tweets posted by my friends) as an RSS or atom feed? I've heard that you could've used https://twitter.com/statuses/friends_timeline.rss in the past, but it's not working anymore.
My main concern is to extract this timeline to Yahoo Pipes, so any other method that will do this may also help.
I suspect this is no longer possible now that Twitter requires OAuth and won't accept basic authentication: Twitter doesn't support Basic Authentication anymore and instead requests which require authentication need to be signed with OAuth.
Further reading: https://dev.twitter.com/docs/auth/moving-from-basic-auth-to-oauth
It's not perfect, but if you can find your user id, this will show the most recent statuses for all the twitter users you follow, so it is similar:
https://api.twitter.com/1/statuses/following_timeline.rss?user_id=[your id]
For example:
https://api.twitter.com/1/statuses/following_timeline.rss?user_id=179698068
Or the user name version
https://api.twitter.com/1/statuses/following_timeline.rss?user=[username]
For example:
https://api.twitter.com/1/statuses/following_timeline.rss?user=stackexchange
You can access any individual public users timeline in RSS, ATOM, XML and JSON formats:
https://twitter.com/statuses/user_timeline/username.rss
Just replace the extension .rss with either .rss, .atom, .xml or .json if you'd like to use a different format.
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