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Getting social media feeds as JSON in PHP
<?php
/* Getting a JSON Facebook Feed
==========================================================================
1. Sign in as a developer at https://developers.facebook.com/
2. Click "Create New App" at https://developers.facebook.com/apps
3. Under Apps Settings, find the App ID and App Secret
*/
$appID = 'XXXX';
$appSecret = 'XXXX';
/* Configuring a JSON Facebook Feed
==========================================================================
1. Find the desired feed ID at http://findmyfacebookid.com/
2. Set the maximum number of stories to retrieve
3. Set the seconds to wait between caching the response
*/
$feed = 1215713599;
$maximum = 10;
$caching = 60;
/* Enjoying a JSON Facebook Feed
==========================================================================
Visit this URL and make sure everything is working
Use JSONP by adding ?callback=YOUR_FUNCTION to this URL
Tweet love or hate @jon_neal
Permission errors? http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4917811/file-put-contents-permission-denied
*/
$filename = basename(__FILE__, '.php').'.json';
$filetime = file_exists($filename) ? filemtime($filename) : time() - $caching - 1;
if (time() - $caching > $filetime) {
$authentication = file_get_contents("https://graph.facebook.com/oauth/access_token?grant_type=client_credentials&client_id={$appID}&client_secret={$appSecret}");
$response = file_get_contents("https://graph.facebook.com/{$feed}/feed?{$authentication}&limit={$maximum}");
file_put_contents($filename, $response);
} else {
$response = file_get_contents($filename);
}
header('Content-Type: application/json');
header('Last-Modified: '.gmdate('D, d M Y H:i:s', $filetime).' GMT');
print($_GET['callback'] ? $_GET['callback'].'('.$response.')' : $response);
<?php
/* Getting a JSON Twitter Feed
==========================================================================
1. Sign in as a developer at https://dev.twitter.com/
2. Click "Create a new application" at https://dev.twitter.com/apps
3. Under Application Details, find the OAuth settings and the access token
*/
$consumerKey = 'XXXX';
$consumerSecret = 'XXXX';
$accessToken = 'XXXX';
$accessTokenSecret = 'XXXX';
/* Configuring a JSON Twitter Feed
==========================================================================
1. Find the desired twitter username
2. Set the maximum number of tweets to retrieve
3. Set the seconds to wait between caching the response
*/
$username = 'jon_neal';
$maximum = 10;
$caching = 60;
/* Enjoying a JSON Twitter Feed
==========================================================================
Visit this URL and make sure everything is working
Use JSONP by adding ?callback=YOUR_FUNCTION to this URL
Tweet love or hate @jon_neal
Permission errors? http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4917811/file-put-contents-permission-denied
*/
$filename = basename(__FILE__, '.php').'.json';
$filetime = file_exists($filename) ? filemtime($filename) : time() - $caching - 1;
if (time() - $caching > $filetime) {
$url = 'https://api.twitter.com/1.1/statuses/user_timeline.json';
$base = 'GET&'.rawurlencode($url).'&'.rawurlencode("count={$maximum}&oauth_consumer_key={$consumerKey}&oauth_nonce={$filetime}&oauth_signature_method=HMAC-SHA1&oauth_timestamp={$filetime}&oauth_token={$accessToken}&oauth_version=1.0&screen_name={$username}");
$key = rawurlencode($consumerSecret).'&'.rawurlencode($accessTokenSecret);
$signature = rawurlencode(base64_encode(hash_hmac('sha1', $base, $key, true)));
$oauth_header = "oauth_consumer_key=\"{$consumerKey}\", oauth_nonce=\"{$filetime}\", oauth_signature=\"{$signature}\", oauth_signature_method=\"HMAC-SHA1\", oauth_timestamp=\"{$filetime}\", oauth_token=\"{$accessToken}\", oauth_version=\"1.0\", ";
$curl_request = curl_init();
curl_setopt($curl_request, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, array("Authorization: Oauth {$oauth_header}", 'Expect:'));
curl_setopt($curl_request, CURLOPT_HEADER, false);
curl_setopt($curl_request, CURLOPT_URL, $url."?screen_name={$username}&count={$maximum}");
curl_setopt($curl_request, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
curl_setopt($curl_request, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, false);
$response = curl_exec($curl_request);
curl_close($curl_request);
file_put_contents($filename, $response);
} else {
$response = file_get_contents($filename);
}
header('Content-Type: application/json');
header('Last-Modified: '.gmdate('D, d M Y H:i:s', $filetime).' GMT');
print($_GET['callback'] ? $_GET['callback'].'('.$response.')' : $response);
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Hi, I'm wondering how to limit the data we get from Twitter? I only want to have "Tweets" and not the "Replies" part, but when I try to add "exclude_replies=true" and it returns 302.

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