Increase number of items in RSS feed?

[probonopd]

Is there an URL parameter to increase the number of items in an RSS feed? Is this documented somewhere?

[zedeus]

There is not, what is your use case?

[probonopd]

I would like to include RSS feeds coming from nitter into a planet aggregator. For this, I would like to get more entries in the RSS feed than I am currently getting.

[zedeus]

One option is to use the Min-Id header for pagination, see here for details: https://github.com/zedeus/nitter/issues/96#issuecomment-562934631

[probonopd]

Thanks @zedeus. I was hoping for something like &n=100 in the URL. I cannot send headers. My blog aggregator only allows me to specify an URL.

I guess it is not (yet) possible?

[zedeus]

If hosting your own instance is possible it's quite easy, otherwise it's not possible yet.

[probonopd]

OK thanks, unfortunately I can only use the publicly hosted instance. Would you take a feature request for this? Thank you very much.

[bouncepaw]

I also think that having an URL parameter is useful and would love to see that feature implemented.

[BradKML]

What about Pagination and Local Caching of pages/queries?

[acarasimon96]

Local caching sounds like a good idea but not pagination. I don't think I know of any RSS feeds that support pagination, and implementing one would open up a possibility of abuse anyway.

[Steeven9]

If hosting your own instance is possible it's quite easy, otherwise it's not possible yet.

Could you expand on the first part? How could we achieve this?

[zedeus]

Change 20 on these two lines to increase the amount of tweets for search and user timelines, then recompile and run it as described in the readme: https://github.com/zedeus/nitter/blob/master/src/api.nim#L106 https://github.com/zedeus/nitter/blob/master/src/consts.nim#L104

[Steeven9]

Nice, that's exactly what I needed! Would it be possible to add it to the config file somehow? I'm running nitter in docker so it would be extremely useful to have it there 😊

Also semi-related question: is it possible to filter out RTs from the rss feed?

[zedeus]

Yeah, I'll probably add that soon. Yes, just click on the search tab before copying the RSS link for a profile, and exclude replies and retweets (unless you want replies of course):

[Steeven9]

Hiya, there's another 20 hardcoded here: https://github.com/zedeus/nitter/blob/master/src/apiutils.nim#L14 which somehow was not considered until recently - I imagine due to this commit: https://github.com/zedeus/nitter/commit/624394430c0989d18c279153006c6a7e48f4dd03

[jor-dor]

@Steeven9 Hi, did you manage to increase the limit ? I have modified these files :

• https://github.com/zedeus/nitter/blob/master/src/api.nim#L106
• https://github.com/zedeus/nitter/blob/master/src/consts.nim#L104
• https://github.com/zedeus/nitter/blob/master/src/apiutils.nim#L14

I recompiled everything but still have the 20 items limit. Is there anything else to do ?

[Steeven9]

@jor-dor no idea - I also have only 20 items, but literally cannot find "20" anywhere in the code.

[BANKA2017]

Endpoints with V2 suffix do not support customizing the number of tweets.