Question

I’m using the following code to parse the latest tweets from a twitter account:

    $host = "http://search.twitter.com";
    $filename = "/search.json";

    $opts = array('http' => array(
        'method'=>"GET",
        'header'=>"Accept-language: en\r\n"
    ));
    $context = stream_context_create($opts);

    $search = "mashable";
    $search = str_replace(" ", "%20", $search);
    $count = "10";

    $a = "$host$filename?q=$search&rpp=$count&include_entities=true";
    echo "$a\n";
    $json = file_get_contents($a, false, $context);

    $obj = json_decode($json, true);
    $id = $obj['results'][0]['id'];
    $tweet = $obj['results'][0]['text'];
    $user = $obj['results'][0]['from_user'];
    $to_user = $obj['results'][0]['to_user'];
    $media_url = $obj['results'][0]['media_url'];

    #echo $json;
    echo "<br /><br />";
    echo "searching for $search\n tweet count: $count\n";
    echo "<br /><br /><b>tweets</b><br />";
    echo "tweet_id: $id <br />";
    echo "user: $user <br />";
    echo "Tweet: $tweet<br />";
    echo "to_user: $to_user <br />";
    echo "media: $media_url";
    echo ""

?>

I would like to extract the following values:
– username (sender)
– tweet (text)
– to user (if is reply)
– media attachments (pictures)

The code is working but for some reason I only receive the latest tweet instead of the number ($count) value. I also can’t receive the media_url value of a tweet. My question is: how?

Answer 1

I found the solution to receive the media_url parameter of each tweet:

$media_url = $result['entities']['media'][0]['media_url']