Mini Bot Class Updated
Now there are 17 bots included in this class! Well I’ve updated the mini bots class with some new things: you can now retrive the list of videos from a Youtube user, you can retrieve the images return...
View ArticleParsing Flickr Feed with PHP tutorial
I’ve spent about 30 minutes to find a javascript embed to print out a custom thumbs list of flickr photos, but I didn’t find anything clean enaugh… and I’ve not enaugh time to spend to read the...
View ArticlePHP to post on a Facebook page
Hi, I’ve modified the Mini Bot Class, I’ve fixed the Facebook status update and I’ve implemented the function to post on the wall of a facebook page: suppose you have a page of a brand, and you need to...
View ArticleSend push notification to iPhone with PHP and pushme.to
Push service is a technology that allows you to send alerts/notifications to a mobile device. Blackberry has its own push service, iPhone has its own, and also Android devices have their own push...
View ArticlePHP bot to get wikipedia definitions
Wikipedia, the collaborative and multilingual encyclopedia project, has a lot of usefull terms defined in its database, you can find informations on artists, cities, medical terms, cars, brands… quite...
View ArticlePHP Geocoding function, from address to coordinates lat long
This is a small function included in the Minibots Class that converts an address to a couple of coordinates Latitude, Longitude that can be used to place a marker on a map. This function uses Google’s...
View Articleget MySpace events with a PHP function
Here is a function to read the concerts for a myspace band page. This code retrieves the “shows page” for a specified myspace username, and than parse the html to find and decode data. Since myspace...
View ArticleHow to use Instagr.am photos on your site
The question is: how can I bring my instagram photos on my personal web site? With this tutorial you can make this. I’m addicted to Instagram, I make photos quite every day with it. But I’m also a...
View ArticlePHP code to check if remote mp3 exists
Hi, I’ve a big table with thousands of mp3 links. Sice these links come from an old database, many of them are old and expired. Here is a function that I’ve included in my Minibots Class. The function...
View ArticleHow to read facebook likes count from PHP
When you add facebook like button to your site, probably, you also want to save the number of likes of your pages to your database.These data are very useful and very important because they tell you...
View ArticleMake a cron job with IFTTT
Cron is a software utility, a time-based job scheduler in Unix-like computer operating systems. People who set up and maintain software environments use cron to schedule jobs to run periodically at...
View ArticleHow to build a spider… uh, well an email scraper
What is a spider? A spider is a program that automatically navigates web pages to find informations. These informations can be of any kind, Google, for example has a spider named Googlebot, which is...
View ArticleGet instagram data without official api in PHP
Instagram has an official API to interact with its database of images and users. If you have enough time to understand oAuth protocol and build a bunch of functions to deal with instagram API, that’s...
View ArticleScraping content with PHP as if it was jQuery
Building a spider or a bot needs some knowledge of regular expressions, you must know and use preg_match or preg_match_all to selectively find tags and extract informations from the html source....
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