toy scripts for ego search which support php >5.2 and up. usage: $./twitter_search.sh | php parse.php

parse.php

<?php
$result = json_decode(file_get_contents('php://stdin'));
$dir = realpath(dirname(__FILE__));
// check if there is new tweet
if($result->statuses[0]->id != file_get_contents($dir.'/latest_tweet_id.dat')){
    // record latest tweet id
    file_put_contents($dir.'/latest_tweet_id.dat', $result->statuses[0]->id);
    // iterate search result
    $mail_body = "";
    $date = new DateTime();
    foreach($result->statuses as $tweet){
        $created = new DateTime($tweet->created_at);
        $created->modify("+9 hour");
        if ($date->format('d') != $created->format('d')){
            $mail_body .= "\n----------------------\n";
            $date = new DateTime($tweet->created_at);
        }
        $mail_body .= sprintf("%s\n[%s] @%s(%s) %s\n\n", $tweet->text, $created->format("Y-m-d H:i"), $tweet->user->screen_name, $tweet->user->name, ($tweet->entities->urls)?$tweet->entities->urls[0]->expanded_url:" - ");
    }
    mail("[email protected]", "Ego Search Times - ".date('l H:i'), $mail_body, "From: ego-search-checker");
} else {
    exit(0);
}

twitter_search.sh

#!/bin/bash
#
# Search for the latest tweets
#
# This script is based in part on a solution proposed by Mike Bounds
# in the twitter discussion forum: https://dev.twitter.com/discussions/14460
##################
# Modified to fix searching for hashtags # and usernames @ by Greg Fenton
# http://labby.co.uk
# http://labby.co.uk/2013/08/twitter-search-hashtag-or-username-from-bash/
##################
set -o errexit

screen_name=remore
query="foobar OR k.swd.cc OR github.com/remore"
query=`echo "$query" | sed 's/%/%25/g' | sed 's/ /%20/g' | sed 's/@/%40/g' | sed 's/=/%3D/g' | sed 's/#/%23/g' | sed 's/\//%2F/g'`
since=
tweet_count=40 # the number of tweets you want to retrieve
consumer_key="XXXXXX"
consumer_secret="YYYYY"
oauth_token="ZZZZZ"
oauth_secret="FOOBAR"

timestamp=`date +%s`
nonce=`date +%s%T555555555 | openssl base64 | sed -e s'/[+=/]//g'`

unsorted="count=${tweet_count}
oauth_consumer_key=${consumer_key}
oauth_token=${oauth_token}
oauth_nonce=${nonce}
oauth_version=1.0
oauth_signature_method=HMAC-SHA1
oauth_timestamp=${timestamp}
screen_name=${screen_name}
q=${query}
since_id=${since}"
sorted=`echo "$unsorted" | sort | tr '\n' "~" | sed 's/%/%25/g' | sed 's/~/%26/g' | sed 's/@/%40/g' | sed 's/=/%3D/g' | sed 's/#/%23/g' | sed 's/...$//'`
signature_base_string="GET&https%3A%2F%2Fapi.twitter.com%2F1.1%2Fsearch%2Ftweets.json&${sorted}"
signature_key="${consumer_secret}&${oauth_secret}"
oauth_signature=`echo -n ${signature_base_string} | openssl dgst -sha1 -hmac ${signature_key} -binary | openssl base64 | sed -e s'/+/%2B/' -e s'/\//%2F/' -e s'/=/%3D/'`

header="Authorization: OAuth oauth_consumer_key=\"${consumer_key}\", oauth_nonce=\"${nonce}\", oauth_signature=\"${oauth_signature}\", oauth_signature_method=\"HMAC-SHA1\", oauth_timestamp=\"${timestamp}\", oauth_token=\"${oauth_token}\", oauth_version=\"1.0\""

result=`curl --silent --get 'https://api.twitter.com/1.1/search/tweets.json' --data "count=${tweet_count}&q=${query}&screen_name=${screen_name}&since_id=${since}" --header "Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded" --header "${header}"`
echo $result