Twitter provides a streaming API with which you can do interesting things such as listening for tweets that contain specific strings or actions a user might take (e.g. liking a tweet, following someone,...). This package makes it very easy to work with the API.
Here's a quick example:
PublicStream::create(
$bearerToken,
$apiKey,
$apiSecretKey
)->whenHears('@spatie_be', function(array $tweet) {
echo "We got mentioned by {$tweet['user']['screen_name']} who tweeted {$tweet['text']}";
})->startListening();There's no polling involved. The package will keep an open https connection with Twitter, events will be delivered in real time.
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You can install the package via composer:
composer require spatie/twitter-streaming-apiIn order to use this package you'll need to get some credentials from Twitter. Head over to the Developer Portal on Twitter to create an application.
Once you've created your application, click on the Keys and tokens tab to retrieve your bearer_token
, api_key, api_secret_key.
Currently, this package works with the public stream and the user stream. Both the PublicStream and UserStream
classes provide a startListening function that kicks of the listening process. Unless you cancel it your PHP process
will execute that function forever. No code after the function will be run.
The public stream can be used to listen for specific words that are being tweeted, receive Tweets that are being sent from specific locations or to follow one or more users tweets.
The first parameter of whenHears must be a string or an array containing the word or words you want to listen for. The
second parameter should be a callable that will be executed when one of your words is used on Twitter.
PublicStream::create(
$bearerToken,
$apiKey,
$apiSecretKey
)->whenHears('@spatie_be', function(array $tweet) {
echo "We got mentioned by {$tweet['user']['screen_name']} who tweeted {$tweet['text']}";
})->startListening();The first parameter of whenFrom must be an array containing one or more bounding boxes, each as an array of 4 element
lon/lat pairs (looking
like [<south-west point longitude>, <south-west point latitude>, <north-east point longitude>, <north-east point latitude>])
. The second parameter should be a callable that will be executed when a Tweet from one of your tracked locations is
being sent.
Track all tweets from San Francisco or New York:
PublicStream::create(
$bearerToken,
$apiKey,
$apiSecretKey
)->whenFrom([
[-122.75, 36.8, -121.75, 37.8], // San Francisco
[-74, 40, -73, 41], // New York
], function(array $tweet) {
echo "{$tweet['user']['screen_name']} just tweeted {$tweet['text']} from SF or NYC";
})->startListening();Track all tweets with a location (from all over the world):
PublicStream::create(
$bearerToken,
$apiKey,
$apiSecretKey
)->whenFrom([
[-180, -90, 180, 90] // Whole world
], function(array $tweet) {
echo "{$tweet['user']['screen_name']} just tweeted {$tweet['text']} with a location attached";
})->startListening();The first parameter of whenTweets must be a string or an array containing the Twitter user ID or IDs you wish to
follow. The second parameter should be a callable that will be executed when one of your followed users tweets. Only
public information relating to the Twitter user will be available.
PublicStream::create(
$bearerToken,
$apiKey,
$apiSecretKey
)->whenTweets('92947501', function(array $tweet) {
echo "{$tweet['user']['screen_name']} just tweeted {$tweet['text']}";
})->startListening();UserStream::create(
'your_handle',
$bearerToken,
$apiKey,
$apiSecretKey
)->onEvent(function(array $event) {
if ($event['event'] === 'favorite') {
echo "Our tweet {$event['target_object']['text']} got favorited by {$event['source']['screen_name']}";
}
})->startListening();These APIs work in realtime, so they could report a lot of activity. If you need to do some heavy work processing that activity, it's best to put that work in a queue to keep your listening process fast.
If you need more advanced functionalities, consider checking out redwebcreation/twitter-streaming-api.
Please see CHANGELOG for more information what has changed recently.
Please see CONTRIBUTING for details.
If you've found a bug regarding security please mail security@spatie.be instead of using the issue tracker.
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