I've hacked up a quick and dirty that gathers up my daily twitter
"tweets" (postings) from the RSS feed (using Magpie), formats and
sends them as 1 post on one of my blogspot blogs. I have a list of
people I refer to at the bottom with links to their twitter homepage.
I'm interested in doing two things to improve it in the short term,
one is when I refer to another twitter member, expand out their info
(It's all on their twitter profile page) so instead of just saying
@Bruce_Clement it says
@Bruce_Clement Bruce Clement, Auckland New Zealand
Website www.clement.co.nz
Software developer, Internet
branding. Linux user.
No I can't fix your computer.
Can't design decent looking websites either.
If I go to the profile page, all the info I need is embedded in the html:
<address>
<ul class="about vcard entry-author">
<li><span class="label">Name</span> <span class="fn">Bruce
Clement</span></li>
<li><span class="label">Location</span> <span
class="adr">Auckland, New Zealand</span></li>
<li><span class="label">Web</span> <a
href="http://www.clement.co.nz"; class="url" rel="me nofollow"
target="_blank">http://www.clemen...</a></li>
<li id="bio"><span class="label">Bio</span> <span
class="bio">Software developer. Internet branding. Linux user. No I
can't fix your computer. Can't design decent looking websites
either.</span></li>
</ul>
</address>
What's the best way to retrieve the page and extract the data? I've
considered my old friends raw sockets and preg_replace_callback but I
know there has to be a better way.
Oh, and the other thing. I'd like to expand out short urls to the
target url by following the relevant 301/302 redirects and using the
result. Is there anything in the standard library that beats raw
sockets?
This is low volume (maybe 20 tweets a day & 10 people referred to) so
coding time is much more important than run-time.
Thanks
Bruce
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Home: http://www.clement.co.nz/
Twitter: http://twitter.com/Bruce_Clement
Google Buzz: http://www.google.com/profiles/aotearoanz
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