Parasitter allows you to follow your favorite Twitter and YouTube accounts with full privacy using rss feeds in order to gather the latest content from your favourite accounts and builds a *beautiful* feed so you can read them. Parasitter is written in Python and Flask and uses Semantic-UI as its CSS framework.
Parasitter is possible thanks to several open-source projects that are listed on the [Powered by](#powered-by) section. Make sure to check out those awesome projects!
Only the hash of your password is stored on the database. Also no personal information of any kind is kept on the app itself, if a hacker gets access to it only thing they could do would be to follow/unfollow some accounts.
Parasitter cares about your privacy, and for this it will never make any connection to Twitter or Youtube. We make use pf rss feeds to fetch all the tweets from your followed accounts. If you want to use a specific Nitter or Invidious instance you can replace it on the file `app/routes.py`.
The Parasitter server connects to Google (Youtube) in order to gather all the necessary data. Then it serves it (proxied through itself) to the client. This means that as a user, you will never connect to Google - the Parasitter server will do it for you. So if you want to set up a Parasitter server I recommend you to set it up on a remote VPS so you don't share your IP with Google or use a VPN on the server.
> Now you are inside of the virtual environment for python. All instructions wiht [env] indicate that must be done inside the env if you decided to create one. From now on, you will always need to start the application from within the virtual env.
**IMPORTANT: Before updating to new versions, it is recommended to always export your data on `Settings>ExportData`. A major version update could have changes on the whole database and you may be forced to remove and reset the database!**
> If you experience any error in this step, it might be that there were changes on the database. You can solve it by exporting your data, deleting and resetting the database. Run `rm -rf app.db migrations` and then `flask db init`. Then run step 5 normally.
Testing with a public instance will soon be needed, and I will need to set up a server for this. If I want that Parasitter to go public and host some users I will need a (relativelly) good server and this is somehow expensive for me. So any contribution will be really welcome!
