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  I built a self-hosted X (Twitter) → RSS generator with no API keys required

  I still use RSS heavily for checking websites and social media, but getting public X/Twitter profiles into an RSS reader has become unnecessarily complicated. Most solutions either depend on third-party services or require API access.

  So I built xsukax X RSS Generator, a small open-source tool that turns public X profiles into standard RSS 2.0 feeds.

  The goal was to keep it simple enough that I could drop it onto a normal PHP server and forget about it.

  Main features:

  • Self-hosted PHP + SQLite
  • Essentially a single index.php application
  • Generates RSS 2.0 feeds from public X profiles
  • No X API keys, OAuth, or developer account required
  • No Composer or external database server
  • No cURL dependency
  • Extracts post text, links, timestamps, and supported images
  • Supports media-only posts
  • Per-profile SQLite caching
  • HTTP caching with ETag / 304 support
  • Keeps previously cached posts available if a later refresh fails
  • Built-in per-IP rate limiting
  • Simple web interface
  • Direct RSS URLs for use in RSS readers and automation tools
  • Works with standard RSS clients such as FreshRSS, Miniflux, NetNewsWire, Feedly, NewsBlur, Thunderbird, etc.

  There is no background worker or cron job either. The feed refreshes when requested after the configured cache interval expires.

  One important limitation: it parses publicly available X HTML rather than using the official API. That means changes to X's markup, anti-bot systems, or access policies can temporarily break fetching. I kept the X-specific selectors together in the code so they can be updated relatively easily when that happens.

  It's licensed under GPL-3.0.

  GitHub:
  https://github.com/xsukax/xsukax-X-RSS-Generator

  I'm the developer, so this is obviously self-promotion, but I'm mainly interested in technical feedback from people who actually use RSS/self-hosted feed tools.

  I'd particularly be interested to know:

  • how reliably it works from different servers/regions
  • how the generated feeds behave in different RSS readers
  • whether the caching defaults make sense
  • whether there are X post types I'm currently missing
  • anything you'd change in the security or deployment model

  Issues and PRs are welcome.

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