# encoding: ascii
# api: powershell
# title: Get Twitter RSS Feed
# description: This script will take a Twitter User’s Screen name and get their RSS feed of posts
# version: 0.1
# author: echosmith
# license: CC0
# x-poshcode-id: 4995
# x-derived-from-id: 5069
# x-archived: 2014-04-20T07:34:06
# x-published: 2014-03-18T18:01:00
#
#
param ([String] $ScreenName)
$client = New-Object System.Net.WebClient
$idUrl = "https://api.twitter.com/1/users/show.json?screen_name=$ScreenName"
$data = $client.DownloadString($idUrl)
$start = 0
$findStr = '"id":'
do {
$start = $data.IndexOf($findStr, $start + 1)
if ($start -gt 0) {
$start += $findStr.Length
$end = $data.IndexOf(',', $start)
$userId = $data.SubString($start, $end-$start)
}
} while ($start -le $data.Length -and $start -gt 0)
$feed = "http://twitter.com/statuses/user_timeline/$userId.rss"
$feed