php-curl

curl.php

<?php
$url='http://twitter.com/statuses/user_timeline/16387631.json'; //rss link for the twitter timeline
print_r(get_data($url)); //dumps the content, you can manipulate as you wish to
 
/* gets the data from a URL */
 
function get_data($url)
{
  $ch = curl_init();
  $timeout = 5;
  curl_setopt($ch,CURLOPT_URL,$url);
  curl_setopt($ch,CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER,1);
  curl_setopt($ch,CURLOPT_CONNECTTIMEOUT,$timeout);
  $data = curl_exec($ch);
  curl_close($ch);
  return $data;
}
?>