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A short script to check in with Twitter and see how many more unauthenticated requests you can make to their API. Handy for shared hosting accounts, especially if your host is GoDaddy.
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| <?php | |
| function api_pull($url) { | |
| $API_object = file_get_contents($url); | |
| $array = json_decode($API_object, TRUE); | |
| return $array; | |
| } | |
| $now = time(); | |
| $reply = api_pull('https://api.twitter.com/1/account/rate_limit_status.json'); | |
| echo 'Your IP address has '.$reply['remaining_hits'];.' calls to Twitter remaining'; | |
| echo '</br>The counter resets in '.round(($reply['reset_time_in_seconds'] - $now)/60).' minute(s)'; | |
| ?> |
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A good counter to api request limits would be to save the data you're requesting to a database on your webhost and then have clients pull it from there. Just have the database refresh itself at an interval that doesn't go beyond your request limit. This is ideal, if you don't need real time data requesting.