AddyOsmani.com | Where User Interface Ideas Grows » recent covers last.fm http://addyosmani.com/blog This is the home of Addy Osmani (Web Developer, Designer & Author). Here you can find some great tips and tutorials on everything to do with web development and even a few useful code samples! Fri, 03 Sep 2010 21:35:46 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 21 Incredibly Useful Things You Can Do With cURL and PHP http://addyosmani.com/blog/21-incredibly-useful-things-you-can-do-with-curl-and-php/ http://addyosmani.com/blog/21-incredibly-useful-things-you-can-do-with-curl-and-php/#comments Wed, 16 Sep 2009 03:49:51 +0000 Addy http://addyosmani.com/blog/21-incredibly-useful-things-you-can-do-with-curl-and-php/  

Like me, if you’ve ever wanted to use a Web Service from a site that doesn’t have that many code examples or a solid API, chances are you may have considered using cURL – a great extension to PHP that allows you to authenticate with websites just like a normal user would. The benefits of doing this are that you’re able to gain access to rich data sources like contact lists, email, statuses and a whole lot more. In this post I’m going to provide you with 20 code examples that’ll help you do some pretty cool things using everything from Bit.ly to Las.fm. Sites covered are Yahoo.com, Last.fm, Amazon, WordPress, Facebook, TwitPic, PayPal, Bit.ly, Twitter, GMail, MySpace, is.gd and IMDB.

 

  1. How to shorten a URL through bit.ly
  2. Get the trending topics on Twitter
  3. How to get the album covers of your most recent tracks on Last.fm
  4. Get the list of your Yahoo Contacts via cURL
  5. How to get your very latest tweets
  6. How to update your Twitter Status
  7. How to upload files to Facebook
  8. How to import your GMail Contacts
  9. Upload files using Amazon S3 and PHP
  10. How to login to mySpace through cURL
  11. How to upload videos to YouTube (API reference)
  12. How to make a post to WordPress
  13. How to parse out a movie’s details using IMDB
  14. How to Scape Bing.com for Search Results
  15. How to update your Facebook status
  16. How to upload a picture to TwitPic through cURL
  17. How to process Payments using PayPal, cURL and CakePHP
  18. Scrobble tracks to your Last.fm account using cURL
  19. How to download videos in any format from YouTube
  20. How to shorten a URL using the is.gd Shortening service
  21. How to grab the number of subscribers from your Google Reader Account
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