Comments on: how to store and retrieve your latest tweet from an XML file http://www.burnmind.com/howto/how-to-store-and-retrieve-your-latest-tweet-from-an-xml-file useful info to burn into your mind Mon, 06 Sep 2010 09:29:24 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: burNMind http://www.burnmind.com/howto/how-to-store-and-retrieve-your-latest-tweet-from-an-xml-file/comment-page-1#comment-9992 burNMind Mon, 02 Nov 2009 23:17:44 +0000 http://www.burnmind.com/?p=348#comment-9992 Hello Justin. The url format of the Twitter Search API Method is: http://search.twitter.com/search.format?q=query The available formats are json and atom. I'm gonna use atom for the following example: $twitter_url = 'http://search.twitter.com/search.atom?q=burnmind'; $buffer = file_get_contents($twitter_url); $xml = new SimpleXMLElement($buffer); $entry = $xml -> entry; $title = $entry -> title; Using this code you'll get the the title of the first search result for the term "burnmind" in the $title variable. If you want to see which other data fields you can use, execute the search url in your web browser and take a look at the source code of the resulted atom feed. I hope this helps! Hello Justin.

The url format of the Twitter Search API Method is:
http://search.twitter.com/search.format?q=query

The available formats are json and atom. I’m gonna use atom for the following example:

$twitter_url = ‘http://search.twitter.com/search.atom?q=burnmind’;
$buffer = file_get_contents($twitter_url);
$xml = new SimpleXMLElement($buffer);
$entry = $xml -> entry;
$title = $entry -> title;

Using this code you’ll get the the title of the first search result for the term “burnmind” in the $title variable.

If you want to see which other data fields you can use, execute the search url in your web browser and take a look at the source code of the resulted atom feed.

I hope this helps!

]]> By: Justin http://www.burnmind.com/howto/how-to-store-and-retrieve-your-latest-tweet-from-an-xml-file/comment-page-1#comment-9869 Justin Thu, 29 Oct 2009 15:07:58 +0000 http://www.burnmind.com/?p=348#comment-9869 I've been trying to use your code (thanks for posting it) to create an archive of search results. I tried replacing the url being set to $buffer to: "http://search.twitter.com/search?q=search-term" but get 'String could not be parsed as XML.' I've been trying to figure out what the difference in results between a normal Twitter feed and the Twitter search is, and if you might have any ideas as how to resolve this. Thanks for any help you can provide. Justin I’ve been trying to use your code (thanks for posting it) to create an archive of search results. I tried replacing the url being set to $buffer to:
“http://search.twitter.com/search?q=search-term” but get ‘String could not be parsed as XML.’ I’ve been trying to figure out what the difference in results between a normal Twitter feed and the Twitter search is, and if you might have any ideas as how to resolve this.
Thanks for any help you can provide.
Justin

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