Grab large image from pic.twitter.com in php

grab pic.twitter.com image

https://gist.github.com/txt3rob/3b4fea23729121336438

 grab_pic_twitter_com.php

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<?php // Defining the basic scraping function function scrape_between($data, $start, $end){ $data = stristr($data, $start); // Stripping all data from before $start $data = substr($data, strlen($start)); // Stripping $start $stop = stripos($data, $end); // Getting the position of the $end of the data to scrape $data = substr($data, 0, $stop); // Stripping all data from after and including the $end of the data to scrape return $data; // Returning the scraped data from the function } function curl($url) { // Assigning cURL options to an array $options = Array( CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER => TRUE, // Setting cURL's option to return the webpage data CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION => TRUE, // Setting cURL to follow 'location' HTTP headers CURLOPT_AUTOREFERER => TRUE, // Automatically set the referer where following 'location' HTTP headers CURLOPT_CONNECTTIMEOUT => 120, // Setting the amount of time (in seconds) before the request times out CURLOPT_TIMEOUT => 120, // Setting the maximum amount of time for cURL to execute queries CURLOPT_MAXREDIRS => 10, // Setting the maximum number of redirections to follow CURLOPT_USERAGENT => "Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.1a2pre) Gecko/2008073000 Shredder/3.0a2pre ThunderBrowse/3.2.1.8", // Setting the useragent CURLOPT_URL => $url, // Setting cURL's URL option with the $url variable passed into the function ); $ch = curl_init(); // Initialising cURL curl_setopt_array($ch, $options); // Setting cURL's options using the previously assigned array data in $options $data = curl_exec($ch); // Executing the cURL request and assigning the returned data to the $data variable curl_close($ch); // Closing cURL return $data; // Returning the data from the function } $scraped_page = curl("pic.twitter.com/mhSJp6qkmP"); $scraped_data = scrape_between($scraped_page, '<meta property="og:image" content="', ':large">'); echo $scraped_data; ?>