#!/usr/bin/env sh
+# Grabs tweets and writes them to a file. Avoids using the twitter API by
+# scrapping nitter.net (or any other nitter instance) which can easily be
+# scraped, unlike the intentionally crippled twitter.com. See the output of
+# this script at https://ishaan.bhojwani.org
+
FILE=/root/tweets/index.html
LOGFILE=/root/tweets/cron.log
+
> $FILE
curl https://nitter.net/keshinko | grep tweet-content | head -n 1 | sed -e 's/<[^>]*>//g' -e 's/^[ \t]*\(.*$\)/\1/' >> $FILE
tail -n 1000 $LOGFILE > $LOGFILE