#!/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
INSTANCE=https://nitter.fdn.fr

curl $INSTANCE/keshinko | grep tweet-content | head -n 1 \
  | sed -e 's/<[^>]*>//g' -e 's/^[ \t]*\(.*$\)/\1/' > $FILE
date -R > $LOGFILE