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Twitter Auto-Follow PHP Script

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Simple PHP script which allows you to specify your twitter log in details and a search term, then automatically follow users who have tweeted that term. Code is released as Open Source, use it as you wish - please leave my URL in the commented section though.

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  1. <?php
  2.  
  3. // Twitter Auto-follow Script by Dave Stevens - http://davestevens.co.uk 
  4.  
  5. // Set the twitter user
  6. $user = "";
  7. $pass = "";
  8.  
  9. // Set the term you want to follow (e.g. "soccer")
  10. $term = "";
  11.  
  12. // Get already followed
  13. $userApiUrl = "http://twitter.com/statuses/friends.json";
  14.  
  15. $ch = curl_init($userApiUrl);
  16. curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_USERPWD, $user.":".$pass);
  17. curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
  18.  
  19. $apiresponse = curl_exec($ch);
  20.  
  21. curl_close($ch);
  22.  
  23. $followed = array();
  24.  
  25. if ($apiresponse) {
  26. 	$json = json_decode($apiresponse);
  27. 	if ($json != null) {
  28. 		foreach ($json as $u) {
  29. 			$followed[] = $u->name;
  30. 		}
  31. 	}
  32. }
  33.  
  34. $userApiUrl = "http://search.twitter.com/search.json?q=" . $term . "&rpp=100";
  35.  
  36. $ch = curl_init($userApiUrl);
  37. curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_USERPWD, $user.":".$pass);
  38. curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
  39.  
  40. $apiresponse = curl_exec($ch);
  41.  
  42. curl_close($ch);
  43.  
  44. if ($apiresponse) {
  45. 	$results = json_decode($apiresponse);
  46. 	$count = 20;
  47.  
  48. 	if ($results != null) {
  49.  
  50. 		$resultsArr = $results->results;
  51.  
  52. 		if (is_array($resultsArr)) {
  53.  
  54. 			foreach ($resultsArr as $result) {
  55.  
  56. 				$from_user = $result->from_user;
  57.  
  58. 				if (!in_array($from_user,$followed)) {
  59.  
  60. 					$ch = curl_init("http://twitter.com/friendships/create/" . $from_user . ".json");
  61. 					curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_USERPWD, $user.":".$pass);
  62. 					curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, 1);
  63. 					curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS,"follow=true");					
  64. 					curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
  65.  
  66. 					$apiresponse = curl_exec($ch);
  67.  
  68. 					if ($apiresponse) {
  69. 						$response = json_decode($apiresponse);
  70.  
  71. 						if ($response != null) {
  72. 							if (property_exists($response,"following")) {
  73. 								if ($response->following === true) {
  74. 									echo "Now following " . $response->screen_name . "\n";
  75. 								} else {
  76. 									echo "Couldn't follow " . $response->screen_name . "\n";
  77. 								}
  78. 							} else {
  79. 								echo "Follow limit exceeded, skipped " . $from_user . "\n";
  80. 							}
  81. 						}
  82.  
  83. 					}
  84.  
  85. 					curl_close($ch);
  86.  
  87. 				} else {
  88. 					echo "Already following " . $from_user . "\n";
  89. 				}
  90.  
  91. 			}
  92.  
  93. 		}	
  94.  
  95. 	}
  96.  
  97.  
  98. }
  99.  
  100. ?>

URL: http://davestevens.co.uk

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