Ah, no I hadn't considered it, I was under the misapprehension that you needed to register with Twitter to use their API.
Following your suggestion I just checked and find that it exactly answers my question. Looks like I can even get it in JSON & feed it into json_decode Many thanks Simon Bruce On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 7:36 PM, Simon J Welsh <[email protected]> wrote: > Have you considered using the Twitter API? > http://apiwiki.twitter.com/Twitter-REST-API-Method%3A-users%C2%A0show is all > about getting a user's information in a nice XML format. > > On 3/03/2010, at 7:31 PM, Bruce Clement wrote: > >> 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 >> >> -- >> Bruce Clement >> >> Home: http://www.clement.co.nz/ >> Twitter: http://twitter.com/Bruce_Clement >> Google Buzz: http://www.google.com/profiles/aotearoanz >> >> "Before attempting to create something new, it is vital to have a good >> appreciation of everything that already exists in this field." Mikhail >> Kalashnikov >> >> -- >> NZ PHP Users Group: http://groups.google.com/group/nzphpug >> To post, send email to [email protected] >> To unsubscribe, send email to >> [email protected] > > --- > Simon Welsh > Admin of http://simon.geek.nz/ > > Who said Microsoft never created a bug-free program? The blue screen never, > ever crashes! > > http://www.thinkgeek.com/brain/gimme.cgi?wid=81d520e5e > > > > > -- > NZ PHP Users Group: http://groups.google.com/group/nzphpug > To post, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe, send email to > [email protected] > -- Bruce Clement Home: http://www.clement.co.nz/ Twitter: http://twitter.com/Bruce_Clement Google Buzz: http://www.google.com/profiles/aotearoanz "Before attempting to create something new, it is vital to have a good appreciation of everything that already exists in this field." Mikhail Kalashnikov -- NZ PHP Users Group: http://groups.google.com/group/nzphpug To post, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe, send email to [email protected]
