PHP-Twitter-Scraper

Use this tool to fetch the Twitter Front-end. You can get Tweet and Profile Details without the Twitter API simply. It was created out of frustration 😒😒 because we had looked for a lot of means to use a twitter scraper with no avail finding a very good one. Now, this particular API is good enough to get the job done.

Limitations/Shortcomings 😢

For now, the API is limited to the most recent thirteen (13) tweets made by the given user account.

Usage

To use this API, just include the twitter_scraper.php file into your script and call necessary Classes and Methods. Check examples too for further knowledge of usage.

The API can get the profile of a user. The details include;

• Profile Photo
• Name
• Username
• Followers
• Following
• Likes

It also can get the details of tweets, such as;

• Likes
• Comments
• Text
• Retweets

Simply, include the Script into your own project by;

<?php
include('twitter_scraper.php');
?>

Samples

Profile (Code only)

<?php
  $profile = new Profile("EOttoho");
  $profile->getFollowers();
  $profile->getName();
  $profile->getLikes();
  #Above code is self-explanatory enough
?>

Profile (UI)

<?php
  $profile = new UIProfile("EOttoho");
  $profile->render();
?>

Tweets (Code Only)

To use the code only, the following can be done;

<?php
  $tweets = new Tweets("V_Z_Okhormhe");
  $tweets->getFirst();
  $tweets->getLast();
  $tweets->getAll();
  #For the getFirst() and getLast() Methods, you could make use of the keys to reference as follows;
  
  $tweets["id"];
  $tweets["text"];
  
  #Whereas, for getAll() Method, a multi-dimensional array is returned in which you could iterate through the array and get the keys as below;
  foreach ($tweets as $tweet) {
    echo $tweet["id"]; //Returns ID
    echo $tweet["text"]; //Returns Text
  }
?>

Tweets (UI)

To use the UI, you can implement the following;

<?php
  $tweets = new UITweets("V_Z_Okhormhe");
  $tweets->getFirst();
  $tweets->getLast();
  $tweets->getAll();
?>

The methods above are self-explanatory. Remember that for getAll, it returns all the possible tweets (13).

Search

The search class is used to fetch the most recent/trending 14 search results and display the results on the user's page. It accepts two arguments only. Search(string, category). NOTE: Photos not inclusive. To use this class, simply implement the following;

<?php
  $search = new Search('Edinyanga Ottoho', 'top');
  \\OR
  $search = new Search('Edinyanga Ottoho', 'videos');
  #Returns the tweets results matching Edinyanga Ottoho.
?>

Only the following categories can be fetched in the search results;

• Top
• Videos
• People

NOTE: If you use search, you should call a method results() which will return an array; As in;

<?php
  $search = new Search('Edinyanga Ottoho', 'people');
  $search->results(); //Returns an array with results
?>

Trends

The trends class is used to fetch a maximum of ten (10) trends from a particular location. It uses one parameter which is the location (must be countries) to get trends from. SOME locations are restricted! Sorry if they do not yield good results or throw errors. Usage pattern;

  $trends = new Trends('Nigeria');

It has three methods that MUST be called;

   getAll(); //First All (An array)
   getFirst(); //Fetch the First trend from the provided location
   getLast(); //Fetches the Last (10th or less) trend from the given location

The following is a list of supported locations;

• Algeria
• Argentina
• Australia
• Austria
• Bahrain
• Belarus
• Belgium
• Brazil
• Canada
• Chile
• Colombia
• Denmark
• Dominican Republic
• Ecuador
• Egypt
• France
• Germany
• Ghana
• Greece
• Guatemala
• India
• Indonesia
• Ireland
• Israel
• Italy
• Japan
• Jordan
• Kenya
• Korea
• Kuwait
• Latvia
• Lebanon
• Malaysia
• Mexico
• Netherlands
• New Zealand
• Nigeria
• Norway
• Oman
• Pakistan
• Panama
• Peru
• Philippines
• Poland
• Portugal
• Puerto Rico
• Qatar
• Russia
• Saudi Arabia
• Singapore
• South Africa
• Spain
• Sweden
• Switzerland
• Thailand
• Turkey
• Ukraine
• United Arab Emirates
• United Kingdom
• United States
• Venezuela
• Vietnam

Contributors

Edinyanga Ottoho

Edinyanga Ottoho is a Full-Stack software developer with over 3 years of experience. Stacks are HTML, CSS, Core PHP, Python/Django, EcmaScript 4/6, React Native/NodeJS. A huge reason why the API is alive. You can view my profile via this link (https://www.github.com/EdinyangaOttoho)

Victory Okhormhe

Victory Okhormhe is a Front-End developer with over 2 years of experience. Stacks are HTML, CSS, BootStrap, Semantic UI, ES4, Elm, Python (Data Science ). Profile is accessible via: (https://www.github.com/victoryokhormhe).

Requirements

The following are required/recommended for effective functioning of this API. Else, some errors may come along;

• CURL PHP Extension Installed and Enabled.
• PHP Version >= 7.2.0 To install this, use the link to access the PHP Official site; https://www.php.net/manual/en/install.php
• A Poor server/internet Connectivity is a con.

Issues/Fixes

Contact us via +2348117093601 or +2348078920574 On WhatsApp or create an issue