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I’ve just updated the Mini Bot Php Class with an improved version of the twitterInfo function, here is the code of the new function, I’ve added the avatar image url:

/* this function is part of the Mini Bot Class */

	//
	// get twitter infos from nickname
	// and get avatar url
	public function twitterInfo($nick) {
		$user_agent = "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.01; Windows NT 5.0)";
		$ch = curl_init();    // initialize curl handle
		curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, "http://twitter.com/$nick"); // set url to post to
		curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FAILONERROR, 1);              // Fail on errors
		curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, 1);    // allow redirects
		curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER,1); // return into a variable
		curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_PORT, 80);            //Set the port number
		curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_TIMEOUT, 15); // times out after 15s
		curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_USERAGENT, $user_agent);
		$document = curl_exec($ch);
		preg_match_all('#<div class="stats">(.*)</div>#Uis', $document, $stats);
		preg_match_all('#<span[^>]*?>(.*)</span>#Uis', $stats[1][0], $spans);
		$o = array();
		for ($i=0;$i<count($spans[0]);$i++) {
			if ($this->attr($spans[0][$i],"id")=="following_count") $o['following'] = $spans[1][$i];
			if ($this->attr($spans[0][$i],"id")=="follower_count") $o['follower'] = $spans[1][$i];
			if ($this->attr($spans[0][$i],"id")=="lists_count") $o['lists'] = $spans[1][$i];
		}
		$o['avatar'] = "";
		preg_match_all('#<img [^>]*?>#Uis', $document, $t);
		for ($i=0;$i<count($t[0]);$i++) if (attr($t[0][$i],"id")=="profile-image") $o['avatar'] = attr($t[0][$i],"src");
		return $o;
	}

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Tags: bot, curl, Preg_match_all, Spider, spiders, webbot