I’m going to quickly show you the exact code to send a tweet using the Twitter API. Then, how to learn to build a full-fledged Twitter app.
Let’s dig in.
Before you start, you need three things:
- A developer account on Twitter. (dev.twitter.com)
- A Twitter app for the API keys and access tokens (apps.twitter.com)
- The Twitter OAuth PHP class (twitteroauth.com)
Download the class to your working folder. Then, create a file called index.php (or whatever you want) and include the Twitter OAuth class like so:
require "twitteroauth/autoload.php"; use Abraham\TwitterOAuth\TwitterOAuth;
Next, we need to connect to the API:
$connection = new TwitterOAuth(CONSUMER_KEY, CONSUMER_SECRET, $access_token, $access_token_secret);
$content = $connection->get("account/verify_credentials");You, of course, need to change out CONSUMER_KEY, CONSUMER_SECRET, $access_token and $access_token_secret with the actual ones from your Twitter app (which is why you need to create one to do this).
Then to get tweets, do this:
$statuses = $connection->get("statuses/home_timeline", ["count" => 25, "exclude_replies" => true]);This will get your last 25 tweets, excluding replies.
Finally, to create a new tweet, do this:
$statues = $connection->post("statuses/update", ["status" => "hello world"]);Changing “hello world” to whatever you want to tweet.
That’s it. Pretty damn easy.
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