jessicadigital/social-feed

Get feeds from different social networks in a unified format

SocialFeed

Get feeds from different social networks in a unified format., _(*1)

Install

Use composer: composer require jessicadigital/social-feed, _(*2)

Features

• Get the most recent posts of a user
• Get a specific item based on an ID
• Implemented media: Facebook, Instagram, Pinterest, Twitter, YouTube
• Returns items in simple format
• Gets information (id, service, thumbnail) on attached video/images from: youtube, vine, instagram, vimeo
• Get an id from an url of a post

Example

Twitter

$twitter = new JessicaDigital\SocialFeed\Services\TwitterService(array(
  'access_token' => 'xxx',
  'access_token_secret' => 'xxx',
  'consumer_key' => 'xxx',
  'consumer_secret' => 'xxx'
));
$feed = $twitter->getFeed('jessica_digital');

Credentials

The following credentials are needed depending on the medium: - Facebook: app_id, app_secret - Instagram: client_id, client_secret - Pinterest: [none] - Twitter: consumer_key, consumer_secret, access_token, access_token_secret - Youtube: api_key, _(*3)

Usage

The services provided through this package query various social service APIs. In the interests of service availability, please use this package to fetch data at scheduled intervals, e.g. using a CRON job, and caching the data on your server. The easiest way to cache data is to write the JSON feed to a text file, e.g., _(*4)

file_put_contents($filename, json_encode($data));, _(*5)