Getting the latest tweet from PHP

Question

To get my last tweet in PHP, I use this code:

function getTweets($tweetsToDisplay, $user_id) { $twitterrequest = 'http://api.twitter.com/1/statuses/user_timeline.json?user_id=' . $user_id . '&include_rts=true&count=' . $tweetsToDisplay; $twitterci = curl_init($twitterrequest); curl_setopt($twitterci, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, TRUE); $twitterinput = curl_exec($twitterci); curl_close($twitterci); return ($twitterinput); } $user_id = '99999999'; $var = json_decode(getTweets(1, $user_id)); $txt = $var[0]->text; $txt = preg_replace('%(https?://)[^\s]*%', '$1...', $txt); echo $txt; 

Works great, but I also want to get the date. How to extract it?

Answer 1

Hope the code below helps you.

 function getTimeline($count, $username) { $url = 'http://api.twitter.com/1/statuses/user_timeline.json?screen_name='.$username.'&count=.'$count; $tweets = json_decode(file_get_contents($url),TRUE); return $tweets; } 

Answer 2

You can try this simple PHP function that I created to easily find the latest tweets (no API authentication required). Must be optimized :)

 function getTweets($user, $count) { $datas = file_get_contents('https://twitter.com/'.$user); preg_match_all('/<p class="js-tweet-text tweet-text">(.*?)<\/p>/', $datas, $matchetweets); $matchetweets[1] = preg_replace('/<s>(.?)<\/s>/', '$1', $matchetweets[1]); $matchetweets[1] = preg_replace('/(class|dir|rel|data-expanded-url|data-pre-embedded|data-query-source)="(.*?)"/', '', $matchetweets[1]); $matchetweets[1] = preg_replace('!\s+!', ' ', $matchetweets[1]); for ($i = 1; $i <= $count; $i++) { echo '<li>'.$matchetweets[1][$i].'</li>'."\n"; } }; 

Using

 echo getTweets('nasa', 3); 

UPDATE (10/15/2014):

This version is deprecated and no longer works. Here is the updated PHP code for easy tweet analysis.

 function getTweets($user, $count) { $datas = file_get_contents('https://mobile.twitter.com/'.$user); preg_match_all('/<div class="tweet-text" data-id="\d*">(.*?)<\/div>/', $datas, $matchetweets); $matchetweets[1] = preg_replace('/<div class="dir-ltr" dir="ltr">/', '', $matchetweets[1]); for ($i = 1; $i <= $count; $i++) { echo '<li>'.$matchetweets[1][$i].'</li>'."\n"; } }; 

UPDATE (5/30/2015):

 function getTweets($user, $count) { $datas = file_get_contents('https://mobile.twitter.com/'.$user); preg_match_all('/<div class="tweet-text" data-id="\d*">(.*?)<\/div>/s', $datas, $matchetweets, PREG_SET_ORDER); for ($i = 1; $i <= $count; $i++) { $matchetweets[$i][0] = preg_replace('/<div class="dir-ltr" dir="ltr">/', '', $matchetweets[$i][0]); $matchetweets[$i][0] = preg_replace('/\s+/', ' ', $matchetweets[$i][0]); $matchetweets[$i][0] = str_replace('"> ', '">', $matchetweets[$i][0]); echo '<li>'.$matchetweets[$i][0].'</li>'."\n"; } }; 

Use does not change. Minimum 1 tweet, maximum 20 tweets.

Answer 3

 <?php $date = $var[0]->created_at; 

That should work!

Answer 4

Add this at the bottom of your code.

 $time = $var[0]->created_at; echo $time; 

Answer 5

Based on the results of the Twitter API from http://dev.twitter.com/doc/get/statuses/user_timeline , you can use the created_at parameter.

You have:

 $txt = $var[0]->text; 

If this works, add

 $created = $vars[0]->created_at; echo $txt; echo "<span>".$created."</span>" ;