After Google decided to shut down the API of feedburner, I've unsuccessfully searched the web for another way of displaying the current subscribers of an RSS feed.
Is there any way of doing this in PHP without the old feedburner API?
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Well friends, i want to be showing the number of followers i've got on instagram and twitter, facebook friends and show the latest post's feed from twitter or instagram on my website using PHP. I've seen this possible using plugins in wordpress but i wonder if there is no way to do it in PHP!
So far i've just tried to make some researches and found an API from developers.facebook.com but not sure how to use them!
I need to get the number of rss subscribers for a website. Say http://blog.twitter.com. How do I do that in PHP? Please help thanks. Google RSS subscribers.
Just tracking the calls to your rss feed via PHP will not give you accurate results as google reader (or other webbased services) ges the feed only once for all subscribers.
You can use an external Service like Feedburner (feedburner.google.com) which gives you subscriber metrics. You basically just proxy your feed through their system.
is there anyway to get a feed latest tweets of the whole twitter community through the twitter API?
i have come across articles that explain how to get the status feed of a specific user or users. but i am trying to get a feed of about 10 tweets of the latest tweets by the whole twitter user community to display on the homepage of a twitter app i am working on.
is there anyway to make this work?
You can use the sample stream to get a random sample of about 1% of all tweets
http://dev.twitter.com/pages/streaming_api_methods#statuses-sample
Phirehose provides one PHP library for this, but be there are some errors in it that are reported in the Issues tab but not yet fixed.
http://code.google.com/p/phirehose/
I am new to Twitter API and only know that we can pull someone's
Twitter feed from Twitter through RSS feed on that person's Twitter
page/ profile.
But, how can I pull more information of that person's Twitter page?
For instance,
His/ Her followers.
Total of his/ her retweet items.
http://www.qapture.net/
There are a couple of interesting things I still cannot figure them
out how they did this website,
If you compare the particular person's twitter feed on this website
with that person's twitter page, some of the items are pull in qapture
website, but some are not, so I think they must have select certain
items of feed only - how do they do that??
If you mouse over an item of feed on qapture website, you can see
other information of that feed item, such as '9 hours ago', '6
tweet(s)', etc - how do you get that information from?
Which area of Twitter API that I should look into to achieve these...?
I'm using PHP and Jquery for my web development by the way...
Many thanks!
Lau
Take a look at the actual Twitter API, not just RSS feeds:
http://dev.twitter.com/
Because I run a blog aggregator website which checks a large list of RSS feeds for new posts every hour so I will be happy if its possible to use google feed api or Google AJAX Feed API instead of making the cron jobs to read the whole feed to know if its updated or not.
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You can use the Google Feed API, however instead of polling the feed source every hour you will still need to poll the google feed API every hour. It doesn't notify you of feed updates. If you want to be notified when to update feeds, then you should look into using a ping server, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ping_blog to determine when feeds are updated so that you know it is time to fetch the feed again. Not all feeds use a ping server, but it might help you for those that do.
As Nanek said, the Google Feed API won't notify you when a feed is changed... for this you'll have to use the PubSubHubbub protocol or services like Superfeedr which is a Google Feed API alternative.