Displays 10 (default) tweets from a Twitter account and displays a summary of all the different hashtags in them with the number of repetitions of each one.
- Using the provided composer.json, install dependencies
$ composer install - Create configuration file for OAuth package https://github.com/oriceon/oauth-5-laravel
$ php artisan vendor:publish
- Add your twitter app credentials (Or create a new app Twitter App Management) to
config/oauth-5-laravel.php
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Access
/publicdirectory the application root. i.e.http://localhost/tw-htcount/public -
The first time you use the application it will automatically redirect to twitter for you to approve and authenticate.
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Twitter will redirect back to tw-htcount and will show an input.
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Type in a Twitter username on the input field and press Enter (Probably try with an account that "over-uses" hashtags)
There is an additional option to get directly request information by passing parameters in the url. These parameters are: {screen_name}, {num_tweets} (optional) and {response_type} (optional) and could be inclued as:
http://app_base_url/public/screen_name/num_tweets
For example, the following url will display the last 40 tweets from the Twitter account '@nixcraft':
http://app_base_url/public/nixcraft/40
For example, the following uri will display the last 20 tweets from the Twitter account '@thenextweb' in json format:
http://app_base_url/public/TheNextWeb/20/json
- The user account to fetch has to be public. No data will be shown in case is a protected account.
- Defining the number of tweets to fetch from a url parameter could be limited by Twitter API.