What’s hot on Twitter right now? You can scrap twitter trending topics to answer the question. But there is something hotter – Twitscoop. So what we are waiting for? Let’s scrap Twitscoop tag cloud.
Simple Twitscoop tag cloud scraper
General idea:
- Get a homepage
- Extract tags
- Remove duplicate tags
Example
<?php $file = file_get_contents("http://www.twitscoop.com"); preg_match_all("(<em class='blue'>(.*)</em>)siU", $file, $matches); $matches = array_values(array_unique($matches[1])); for ($i = 0; $i < count($matches); $i++) { $matches[$i] = strtolower($matches[$i]); } $matches = array_values(array_unique($matches)); // Job's done! $matches stores everything you need. ?>
Widget
BTW, there is a nice looking Twitscoop widget which displays hot trends and buzzing tag cloud. You can grab the code here.
What’s hot on Twitter right now? Now you know.
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By Terry on April 25th, 2009.
Thanks for the tip. New here to the internet business as well as blogging. The direction and resources will definitely be beneficial.