twitter streaming api instead of search api
- by user1711576
I am using twitters search API to view all the tweets that use a particular hashtag I want to view.
However, I want to use the stream function, so, I only get recent ones, and so, I can then store them.
<?php
global $total, $hashtag;
$hashtag = $_POST['hash'];
$total = 0;
function getTweets($hash_tag, $page) {
global $total, $hashtag;
$url = 'http://search.twitter.com/search.json?q='.urlencode($hash_tag).'&';
$url .= 'page='.$page;
$ch = curl_init($url);
curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, TRUE);
$json = curl_exec ($ch);
curl_close ($ch);
echo "<pre>";
$json_decode = json_decode($json);
print_r($json_decode->results);
$json_decode = json_decode($json);
$total += count($json_decode->results);
if($json_decode->next_page){
$temp = explode("&",$json_decode->next_page);
$p = explode("=",$temp[0]);
getTweets($hashtag,$p[1]);
}
}
getTweets($hashtag,1);
echo $total;
?>
The above code is what I have been using to search for the tweets I want.
What do I need to do to change it so I can stream the tweets instead?
I know I would have to use the stream url https://api.twitter.com/1.1/search/tweets.json ,
but what do I need to change after that is where I don't know what to do.
Obviously, I know I'll need to write the database sql but I want to just capture the stream first and view it.
How would I do this? Is the code I have been using not any good for just capturing the stream?
