2 # Grabs tweets and writes them to a file. Avoids using the twitter API by
3 # scrapping nitter.net (or any other nitter instance) which can easily be
4 # scraped, unlike the intentionally crippled twitter.com. See the output of
5 # this script at https://ishaan.bhojwani.org
7 FILE=/root/tweets/index.html
8 LOGFILE=/root/tweets/cron.log
9 INSTANCE=https://nitter.fdn.fr
11 curl $INSTANCE/keshinko | grep tweet-content | head -n 1 \
12 | sed -e 's/<[^>]*>//g' -e 's/^[ \t]*\(.*$\)/\1/' > $FILE