c_pattle Posted December 28, 2010 Share Posted December 28, 2010 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 Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/222843-screen-scraping-twitter/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
kenrbnsn Posted December 28, 2010 Share Posted December 28, 2010 Yes, there is a Twitter API. Use it. Ken Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/222843-screen-scraping-twitter/#findComment-1152311 Share on other sites More sharing options...
c_pattle Posted December 28, 2010 Author Share Posted December 28, 2010 Yeah I know, I've looked through the documentation but don't really understand how I would achieve this. Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/222843-screen-scraping-twitter/#findComment-1152316 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maq Posted December 28, 2010 Share Posted December 28, 2010 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 Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/222843-screen-scraping-twitter/#findComment-1152319 Share on other sites More sharing options...
c_pattle Posted December 28, 2010 Author Share Posted December 28, 2010 Thanks. Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/222843-screen-scraping-twitter/#findComment-1152324 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maq Posted December 28, 2010 Share Posted December 28, 2010 Thanks. YW. Try it out, if you're still having trouble come back for specific help. Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/222843-screen-scraping-twitter/#findComment-1152325 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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