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Use Twitter API to export data (in CSV format) on people that are following you. See Installation notes for steps. Prerequisites: 1) Twitter OAuth PHP library 2) Create your own Twitter application and OAuth keys/tokens.
<?php
/* followers.php - use Twitter API to export data (CSV format) on people that are following you
Installation:
1. Install Twitter OAuth PHP library (https://github.com/abraham/twitteroauth)
2. Adjust twitteroauth.php include path below
3. Create Twitter application (https://dev.twitter.com/apps)
4. Fill in 4 Twitter app keys below
5. Adjust $fields array if you want different fields saved
Usage:
php followers.php > followers.csv
Modified by:
Jim Bohne
Based on friends.php by:
Brian Cantoni
<brian AT cantoni DOT org>
http://www.cantoni.org
*/
include ('./code/twitteroauth/twitteroauth.php');
/* global settings */
ini_set ('display_errors', 1);
error_reporting (E_ALL & ~E_NOTICE);
date_default_timezone_set ('America/New_York');
/* Twitter user fields to write out as CSV */
$fields = array ("name","screen_name","statuses_count","favourites_count","followers_count","friends_count","location","url");
/* Twitter app keys */
define ('CONSUMER_KEY', 'your-value-here');
define ('CONSUMER_SECRET', 'your-value-here');
define ('OAUTH_TOKEN', 'your-value-here');
define ('OAUTH_TOKEN_SECRET', 'your-value-here');
/* create Twitter object, override to use API v1.1 */
$twitter = new TwitterOAuth(CONSUMER_KEY, CONSUMER_SECRET, OAUTH_TOKEN, OAUTH_TOKEN_SECRET);
if (!is_object($twitter)) {
fwrite (STDERR, "Error creating TwitterOAuth object\n");
exit (-1);
}
$twitter->host = "https://api.twitter.com/1.1/";
/* main loop: fetch follower ids, then details, then write out as CSV */
fputcsv (STDOUT, $fields);
$cursor = -1; // first page
$follower_total = 0;
while ($cursor != 0) {
$params = array(
'stringify_ids' => true,
'count' => 100,
'cursor' => $cursor,
);
/* pull follower ID numbers, 100 at a time
docs: https://dev.twitter.com/docs/api/1.1/get/followers/ids
*/
$followers = $twitter->get("followers/ids", $params);
if (!is_object($followers) || isset($followers->errors)) {
fwrite (STDERR, "Error retrieving followers\n");
print_r($followers);
exit (-1);
}
$ids = implode (',', $followers->ids);
$cursor = $followers->next_cursor_str;
$follower_total += count($followers->ids);
fprintf (STDERR, "Found %d followers in this batch; cursor=%s\n", count($followers->ids), $cursor);
/* pull follower details, 100 at a time, using POST
docs: https://dev.twitter.com/docs/api/1.1/get/users/lookup
*/
$params = array(
'user_id' => $ids,
);
$users = $twitter->post("users/lookup", $params);
if (!is_array($users)) {
fwrite (STDERR, "Error retrieving users\n");
print_r ($users);
exit (-1);
}
foreach ($users as $u) {
$csv = array();
foreach ($fields as $f) {
$csv[] = $u->{$f};
}
fputcsv (STDOUT, $csv);
}
}
fprintf (STDERR, "Done! Found %d followers\n", $follower_total);
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ghost commented Nov 27, 2013

I am having trouble executing this. I am new to PHP hence trying to learn. I get the following error:

Warning: fputcsv() expects parameter 1 to be resource, string given in E:\xampp\htdocs\followers.php on line 49

Warning: fprintf() expects parameter 1 to be resource, string given in E:\xampp\htdocs\followers.php on line 72

Warning: fputcsv() expects parameter 1 to be resource, string given in E:\xampp\htdocs\followers.php on line 92

Please help me resolve this.

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ghost commented Sep 6, 2016

Fatal error: Class 'PHPUnit_Framework_TestCase' not found in /home/username/public_html/tests/TwitterOAuthTest.php on line 10

Having this error during runtime.

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