Screen Scraping Twitter

[c_pattle]

I have a form which lets the user put in the URL to their twitter account.  When the enter their URL I am trying to create a screen scraping script that scrapes that page to get basic information like their twitter name and number of tweets. 

 

I'm not sure how I am going to do this, I don't think there is a twitter API for this so I may have to use something like cURL.  I was just wondering if anyone has done this and could give me any advice about the best method? 

 

Thanks for any help

[kenrbnsn]

Yes, there is a Twitter API. Use it.

 

Ken

[c_pattle]

Yeah I know, I've looked through the documentation but don't really understand how I would achieve this. 

[Maq]

Yeah I know, I've looked through the documentation but don't really understand how I would achieve this. 

 

Looks like they have some useful tutorials using the API with PHP:

http://www.newwebplatform.com/tips-and-tutorials/Twitter

[c_pattle]

Thanks. 

[Maq]

Thanks. 

 

YW.  Try it out, if you're still having trouble come back for specific help.