I have a database of twitter usernames in a mysql DB. I would like to populate the currently empty description, location and url fields with data.
What would be be the best way to do this?
Thanks!
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I have a database of twitter usernames in a mysql DB. I would like to populate the currently empty description, location and url fields with data.
What would be be the best way to do this?
Thanks!
You should take a look at the Twitter REST API documentation. There should be something in there you can use.
For example, if you use the following url, you get information in JSON format on a particular user:
http://twitter.com/users/show/<userid>.json. If you end your url with.xmlinstead of.json, you get the same info in xml format.Then in your application you can parse the returned data and add the missing values to your database.