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tang/twitter-rest-api
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Classes that interface with Twitter REST API v1.1 using Application-only authentication

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Twitter API Library for Applications
====================================

[](#twitter-api-library-for-applications)

### Install

[](#install)

You can install this package through Composer:

### Getting Started

[](#getting-started)

Visit  to define an application on Twitter and save your API key information.

Currently this library only supports [application-only authentication](https://dev.twitter.com/docs/auth/application-only-auth). This means that any request to the API for endpoints that require user context, such as posting tweets, **will not work**.

#### Searching tweets

[](#searching-tweets)

```
$twitterSearch = new Tang\TwitterRestApi\TwitterApi([
	'api_key' => API_KEY,
	'api_secret' => API_SECRET
]);

$json = $twitterSearch->authenticate()->get('search/tweets', [
	'q' => 'laravel'
]);
```

You can pass in a 3rd argument to the TwitterApi::get() and this will return the JSON decoded.

#### Getting a user's timeline

[](#getting-a-users-timeline)

```
$twitterApi = new Tang\TwitterRestApi\TwitterApi([
	'api_key' => API_KEY,
	'api_secret' => API_SECRET
]);

$json = $twitterApi->authenticate()->get('statuses/user_timeline', [
	'screen_name' => 'uscitp',
	'count' => 10,
	'exclude_replies' => true
]);
```

You can pass in any application level base route to the get method along with query string params passed as an array.

### Working Examples

[](#working-examples)

See the examples folder for working examples

###  Health Score

21

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LowBetter than 18% of packages

Maintenance20

Infrequent updates — may be unmaintained

Popularity10

Limited adoption so far

Community4

Small or concentrated contributor base

Maturity41

Maturing project, gaining track record

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**Popularity (30%)** — Total and monthly downloads, GitHub stars, and forks. Logarithmic scaling prevents top-heavy scores.

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