Collecting all new and old tweets for any user In the last installment of this tutorial you learned how to collect the most recent 100 tweets from a user’s timeline. We are almost ready to start delivering the RSS feed, but first I want to show you how to gather new tweets for the user [...]
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Inserting a user timeline into the database Now that we have the database table ready, we have to loop through all the tweets returned by the statuses/user_timeline Twitter API call, and insert them. The database programming will be done with my db_lib.php library. This is a simple PHP class that I use for all of [...]
Storing tweets for the RSS feed in a database cache The basic architecture I use for all interactions with the Twitter API is to store the results in a database and then deliver any data my scripts need from that database. I’ve written about the benefits of a database cache before, but the basic idea [...]
Someone recently asked the Twitter developer forum how to find the RSS feed for a Twitter account. This has gotten increasingly difficult as Twitter tightens up access to the API through OAuth and rate limits, so I thought I’d check out the latest status on this issue. Sure enough, there are no links to an [...]
