I'm trying to display tweets for a specific hashtag. The code below works perfectly what ever the hashtag is, but when i try with the specific one, it doesn't work. For the last month, it worked perfectly with the right hashtag but since yesterday it's broken. (i didn't put my tokens in the code)
require_once('twitter-api-php-master/TwitterAPIExchange.php');
/** Set access tokens here - see: https://dev.twitter.com/apps/ **/
$settings = array(
'oauth_access_token' => "my_tokens",
'oauth_access_token_secret' => "my_tokens",
'consumer_key' => "my_tokens",
'consumer_secret' => "my_tokens"
);
$hashtag = 'smartspend_eu';
$url = 'https://api.twitter.com/1.1/search/tweets.json';
$getfield = "?q=#$hashtag";
$requestMethod = 'GET';
$twitter = new TwitterAPIExchange($settings);
$response = $twitter->setGetfield($getfield)
->buildOauth($url, $requestMethod)
->performRequest();
The response is :
{"statuses":[],"search_metadata":{"completed_in":0.053,"max_id":1105019731759656961,"max_id_str":"1105019731759656961","query":"%23SMARTSPEND_EU","refresh_url":"?since_id=1105019731759656961&q=%23SMARTSPEND_EU&include_entities=1","count":15,"since_id":0,"since_id_str":"0"}}
What is the problem, and what can i do to fix it ?
I finaly found what's wrong. My code was right from the begining. The problem is that it's impossible to get the tweets from more than 7 days ago. And no tweets has been written for my hashtag for the last 7 days.
So what I'm doing is using the Twitter RestAPI to get the picture of a user and just be able to display the image on a local page. I've figured out the way to grab the URL of the image and this is what I have so far:
$url = $result->profile_image_url;
This holds the url of the profile picture of the user. Now how do I use this url to display it on the page? I know HTML allows us to do something like :
<img src = "some url">
And it will display the picture on the web page. I've looked around the internet for a while now, and still haven't figured it out. I've run into the same suggestion of the following :
<img src = "<?php echo ($url); ?>"/>
But I keep getting a parse error when I attempt loading the page. I would really appreciate if someone could guide me/help me figure out what's going on. Clearly, I'm doing something wrong which is why the PHP interpreter is not able to parse the code. Thanks!
Here is my whole code (if that helps):
<html>
<body>
<?php
require_once('TwitterAPIExchange.php');
$settings = array(
'oauth_access_token' => "N/A",
'oauth_access_token_secret' => "N/A",
'consumer_key' => "N/A",
'consumer_secret' => "N/A"
);
$url = 'https://api.twitter.com/1.1/users/show.json';
$getfield = '?screen_name=kobebryant';
$requestMethod = 'GET';
$twitter = new TwitterAPIExchange($settings);
$json = $twitter->setGetfield($getfield)
->buildOauth($url, $requestMethod)
->performRequest();
$result = json_decode($json);
$url = $result->profile_image_url;
<img src = "<?php echo ($url);?>"/> //This is the line giving me an error
?>
</body>
</html>
You closed the php tag too late. That is why it is recommended to split php from html. Try this code below:
<?php
require_once('TwitterAPIExchange.php');
$settings = array(
'oauth_access_token' => 'N/A',
'oauth_access_token_secret' => 'N/A',
'consumer_key' => 'N/A',
'consumer_secret' => 'N/A'
);
$url = 'https://api.twitter.com/1.1/users/show.json';
$getfield = '?screen_name=kobebryant';
$requestMethod = 'GET';
$twitter = new TwitterAPIExchange($settings);
$json = $twitter->setGetfield($getfield)
->buildOauth($url, $requestMethod)
->performRequest();
$result = json_decode($json);
$url = $result->profile_image_url;
?>
<html>
<head></head>
<body>
<img src="<?php echo ($url);?>"/> //This is the line giving me an error
</body>
</html>
Hint: if you've just a string without variables use ' instead of " because php tries to parse content between " and this is waste of CPU power.
So I'm making a Twitter fetch website where all the tweets from a specific hashtag will be fetched in real-time with ajax. It all works fine, I thought, until it all suddenly stops working. If I then wait for 3 minutes or so, it then starts working again. PHP is giving me errors such as
Notice: Trying to get property of non-object...
The code I'm running:
require_once '../lib/TwitterAPIExchange.php';
$settings = array(
'oauth_access_token' => "...",
'oauth_access_token_secret' => "...",
'consumer_key' => "...",
'consumer_secret' => "..."
);
$url = 'https://api.twitter.com/1.1/search/tweets.json';
$getfield = '?q=#hashtag&result_type=recent';
$requestMethod = 'GET';
$twitter = new TwitterAPIExchange($settings);
$response = $twitter->setGetfield($getfield)
->buildOauth($url, $requestMethod)
->performRequest();
foreach(json_decode($response) as $result){
foreach($result as $post){
echo '<div class="post"><div class="header"><img src="'.$post->user->profile_image_url.'"><p class="user">'.$post->user->name.'</p></div><div class="text">'.$post->text.'</div></div>';
}
break;
}
I figured it out with help from #Uwe Allner. It turned out the Twitter API has something called API Rate Limits. So, as you may guess, they are limiting the amount of requests per x time. Under "Search", I noticed they have set a limit at 180 queries per 15 minutes. So I can make a query each 5 seconds.
180/15 = 12
60/12 = 5
I am using the Twitter Search API 1.1 to search followers_count
I have managed to get the Oauth working with the help of James Mallison at http://github.com/j7mbo/twitter-api-php.
Here my code :
require_once('TwitterAPIExchange.php');
$settings = array(
'oauth_access_token' => "xxx",
'oauth_access_token_secret' => "yyy",
'consumer_key' => "zzz",
'consumer_secret' => "vvv"
);
$url = 'https://api.twitter.com/1.1/users/lookup.json';
$getfield = '?screen_name=twitterapi';
$requestMethod = 'GET';
$twitter = new TwitterAPIExchange($settings);
echo $twitter->setGetfield($getfield)
->buildOauth($url, $requestMethod)
->performRequest();
$response = json_decode($twitter, true);
$ed = $response->followers_count;
Here the answer :
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It's on my website.","url":"http:\/\/t.co\/78pYTvWfJd","entities":{"url":{"urls":[{"url":"http:\/\/t.co\/78pYTvWfJd","expanded_url":"http:\/\/dev.twitter.com","display_url":"dev.twitter.com","indices":[0,22]}]},"description":{"urls":[]}},"protected":false,"followers_count":3402865,"friends_count":48,"listed_count":12958,"created_at":"Wed May 23 06:01:13 +0000 2007","favourites_count":27,"utc_offset":-25200,"time_zone":"Pacific Time (US & Canada)","geo_enabled":true,"verified":true,"statuses_count":3535,"lang":"en","status":{"created_at":"Thu May 21 21:12:42 +0000 2015","id":601495856353783808,"id_str":"601495856353783808","text":"RT #TwitterDev: We are excited to announce that the REST API now supports native video upload. https:\/\/t.co\/cWUrgjh8wz http:\/\/t.co\/yaenTQE9\u2026","source":"\u003ca href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003eTwitter Web 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Warning: json_decode() expects parameter 1 to be string, object given in ...
I don't kwnow why i can't use json_decode
Any feedback or ideas on how to reach followers_count correctly would be much appreciated.
Cheers
What you need to do is:
$jsonResponse = $twitter->setGetfield($getfield)
->buildOauth($url, $requestMethod)
->performRequest();
$data = json_decode($jsonResponse, true);
$ed = $data[0]['followers_count'];
Here json_decode documentation.
How do I grab - or more specifically, iterate over - the contents of a JSON user_timeline object in PHP? I have it retrieved, I'm just trying to access the fields in the object. All of the other tutorials/answers don't apply to the new 1.1 API. Here's where I am:
$url = 'https://api.twitter.com/1.1/statuses/user_timeline.json';
$getfield = '?screen_name=testyMcTesterton';
$requestMethod = 'GET';
$twitter = new TwitterAPIExchange($settings);
$twitter->setGetfield($getfield)
->buildOauth($url, $requestMethod)
->performRequest();
If you posted the contents of the object itself it would help, but can you not just json_decode($obj)? From that do something like:
$new = json_decode($obj);
$data = $new->data; // (this would access Object->data->*)
That's how a JSON array is accessed, though I don't actually know how the Twitter user_timeline object looks so I can't tell you exactly how to access the elements you want specifically.