I am using the Twitter Search API 1.1 to search followers_count
I have managed to get the Oauth working with the help of James Mallison at http://github.com/j7mbo/twitter-api-php.
Here my code :
require_once('TwitterAPIExchange.php');
$settings = array(
'oauth_access_token' => "xxx",
'oauth_access_token_secret' => "yyy",
'consumer_key' => "zzz",
'consumer_secret' => "vvv"
);
$url = 'https://api.twitter.com/1.1/users/lookup.json';
$getfield = '?screen_name=twitterapi';
$requestMethod = 'GET';
$twitter = new TwitterAPIExchange($settings);
echo $twitter->setGetfield($getfield)
->buildOauth($url, $requestMethod)
->performRequest();
$response = json_decode($twitter, true);
$ed = $response->followers_count;
Here the answer :
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It's on my website.","url":"http:\/\/t.co\/78pYTvWfJd","entities":{"url":{"urls":[{"url":"http:\/\/t.co\/78pYTvWfJd","expanded_url":"http:\/\/dev.twitter.com","display_url":"dev.twitter.com","indices":[0,22]}]},"description":{"urls":[]}},"protected":false,"followers_count":3402865,"friends_count":48,"listed_count":12958,"created_at":"Wed May 23 06:01:13 +0000 2007","favourites_count":27,"utc_offset":-25200,"time_zone":"Pacific Time (US & Canada)","geo_enabled":true,"verified":true,"statuses_count":3535,"lang":"en","status":{"created_at":"Thu May 21 21:12:42 +0000 2015","id":601495856353783808,"id_str":"601495856353783808","text":"RT @TwitterDev: We are excited to announce that the REST API now supports native video upload. https:\/\/t.co\/cWUrgjh8wz http:\/\/t.co\/yaenTQE9\u2026","source":"\u003ca href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003eTwitter Web Client\u003c\/a\u003e","truncated":false,"in_reply_to_status_id":null,"in_reply_to_status_id_str":null,"in_reply_to_user_id":null,"in_reply_to_user_id_str":null,"in_reply_to_screen_name":null,"geo":null,"coordinates":null,"place":null,"contributors":null,"retweeted_status":{"created_at":"Thu May 21 20:57:40 +0000 2015","id":601492072953151488,"id_str":"601492072953151488","text":"We are excited to announce that the REST API now supports native video upload. https:\/\/t.co\/cWUrgjh8wz http:\/\/t.co\/yaenTQE95N","source":"\u003ca href=\"http:\/\/jonbulava.com\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003eJon's Developer Testing 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I don't kwnow why i can't use json_decode
Any feedback or ideas on how to reach followers_count correctly would be much appreciated.
Cheers