I am integrating the Twitch user account API into my platform and had a look through the API to see if there was a callback section of some sort to send an update to my server when a user starts streaming, but I can't seem to find any reference for one.
Is there currently any services that offer this sort of thing? If not, what would be the best way of running regular checks on all of my users in my Database to see when they are streaming, of course doing this alone would kill the server with database queries, so I'm stuck as to where to go now.
What I am looking to do is receive a callback and then create a post in a social feed that the user has started streaming.
Based on the discussions at the links below, the API doesn't support webhooks and won't anytime soon. Instead, they expect you to use polling. Basically you would set up a worker process that makes requests periodically, such as every five minutes, then creates appropriate social feed posts, etc. You can batch them together if you have a bunch of channels to check (exaple from from the github issue):
https://api.twitch.tv/kraken/streams?channel=riotgames,dota2ti,machinima,esltv_hearthstone
https://github.com/justintv/Twitch-API/issues/211
https://discuss.dev.twitch.tv/t/notifications-using-twitch-api-and-php/1009
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I want to build a simple Software-as-a-service web application that performs web scraping - the result per execution will be a table of results with several rows and columns. For the front-end, I wanted to build the website using WordPress since I am familiar with making basic websites there and like the plugins available. For the backend I plan on using AWS Lambda to perform the task serverless-ly. The user will log in to the site, then when they want to use the service will enter some keywords via a form, and that will send HTTP request to AWS API Gateway, which is connected to my Lambda function. Currently, the AWS Lambda function writes results into AWS DynamoDB as it goes - perhaps I need to write a second HTTP request method to query the results, or return the results in the same method that scrapes them instead.
Even after hours of googling, there are several areas in which I am unsure how to proceed, or if I have chosen the right path (I have no prior experience in this area.) Two of the biggest puzzles I have currently though are:
How can I use WordPress to send data to AWS API Gateway? Do I need to write some PHP code and if so what does it look like and where should I put it?
How can I present the results on WordPress site for the user? Should I keep the results saved on DynamoDB and query them when I want to present them, or should I store the results on the WordPress database? Ideally they would see a big table and have options to export to CSV, for example.
Thanks for your help and patience.
Cheers,
jack
There are a couple of possible ways this can be accomplished. One way is to just use webhooks. Most form plugins come with the option to use webhooks and doing it this way is pretty straightforward. Here is an article from WPForms on how to configure it WPForms and Webhooks. Below is an example of how I have used it. The example shows a form that sends data to AWS API Gateway which triggers AWS StepFunctions and also puts the customer information in DynamoDB
WPForms Webhook to AWS API Gateway
I need to push offline transactions to Google Analytics.
I am thinking of creating a php script that queries the ecommerce database looking at transactions made in the last hour created from the backend. Having identified these transactions (and line items/SKU's).
How do I use PHP to push data to Google Analytics?
You need to go though the measurement protocol. There is no client library to help you do this in PHP you will have to code it yourself. That being said its not that hard its just a normal HTTP Post or HTTP Get request. The trick is building up your requests correctly.
A couple of quick tips.
Qt stands for que time and will allow you to set the time that the hit arrived on your server. Note it must not be greater than four hours ago.
While you are testing this you can use the debug endpoint to validate your hits. The hits wont be sent to Google but it will tell you if they are valid or not.
Measurement Protocols as #DaImTo mentioned is the answer. make a try here replacing the UA Id -
https://ga-dev-tools.appspot.com/hit-builder/?v=1&tid=UA-XXXXX-Y&cid=555&t=transaction&ti=12345&ta=westernWear&tr=50.00&ts=32.00&tt=12.00&cu=EUR
You can use DIv tool to validate all your post requests.
(dont forget to enable - ecommerce from view settings in GA when testing on new account)
I am interested in writing some basic php to interface with the Poloniex push api.
Their website provides the following info:
https://poloniex.com/support/api/
A php wrapper can be found here:
http://pastebin.com/iuezwGRZ
From what i can determine there are three APIs being push, public and trading. The public and trading APIs provide functions that can be passed parameters etc. The push api stumps me totally as i cannot determine how it works.
The first link above states the API pushes live data and different feeds can be subscribed to.
My questions are:
A) How can php receive a live stream of data?
B) How do i subscribe to a feed?
I may have misunderstood the oush api and my apologies in advance if this is the case.
Edit1:
I believe i need a WAMP client to connect to a WAMP router such as Minion.
https://github.com/Vinelab/minion
Edit2:
Node.js example
http://pastebin.com/dMX7mZE0
The push API is based on Websocket protocol.
Initially you need first to make a connection to the websocket server,
after that you need to register to a data stream (price update stream for example), after that as soon as the server make an update to something (a price ), all connected clients who where previously registred to it will synchronously received the updated price
Finally you got the last price without the need of doublecheck at regular interval if the price has changed
I apologize in advance if this question is too subjective.
I am working on an iOS app that allows users to search through multiple API's to find a result, and then get a push notification when results similar to the ones the user signed up for are found in those APIs.
I am comfortable with the iOS part of the app, but what I am curious about is how should I handle polling multiple API's regularly to see if any of the signed up for topics have received a new item.
The first thing that I imagine is that if a user signs up, for example, to receive notifications when a new X is available, I would have a web server that would go through each of the signed up topics for each user every X minutes, if there is a new result then send a push notification to the user. Even though I have little experience doing such a thing, I know that this will probably be very taxing on the server, and will only get worse as the user base expands.
So rather than periodically querying the API's in the background, how could I go about doing this? As far as I know, the API's I would be use do not allow for push notifications to my server from the API.
Thanks in advance,
Will
There is SO MUCH information about google APIs. So I'm getting lost in all the research.
My goal:
I have a spreadsheet under my google docs account. I want to run a cron job every day, pull cell values from a specific cell (it increases to the next row each day) and then do some other API calls to other services, then write the results in another column in that same row.
Most of the oAuth 2.0 stuff needs to ask the user, which can't happen in a cron job. I found something about a service account, but thats a whole new type of account, and it seems to have it's own credentials. I already have 4 types of security credentials created.
Question) How do I authenticate my google account in PHP without asking anything to the user?
The URL I want to use with cURL after authentication is this
https://spreadsheets.google.com/tq?tqx=out:json&tq=<QUERY>&key=<MY KEY>
Thanks to anyone who can help!