browser freezes while retrieving friends or followers

[rikjanssen]

When I run the 'friends.php' example script the browser freezes like when playing with infinite loops. The authentication seems to work since I am able to post tweets and print the array of all my userdata.

Any help/a solution would be great! Thanx!

https://github.com/themattharris/tmhOAuth-examples/blob/master/friends.php

[themattharris]

hey there, friends.php is designed as an example of crawling the friends list of a user. as such if blocks until the complete list is downloaded.

for a web version you instead want to either:

• pre-execute something like friends.php, store the results to cache and then query it from the webpage
• limit the request to one poll of the twitterapi and then only poll for more friends when the user scrolls far enough down the page.

[rikjanssen]

Hey,

Thank you for your answer! This is really helpful.

This is what i am trying to accomplish: to cron a php file (once a day), collecting all the followers & friends and store them in a database for further processing. So it would be great if this can be done in 1 swift move. I guess it's better to start from scratch.

[JoostA]

Hi Matt,

I have the same problem, I want to 'crawl' my twitter followers, and the people I am following, however the browser keeps loading. Sadly I'm not a very experienced programmer, so I was wondering how I can limit the request. If I execute the full request nothing happens (for at least 15 minutes). I have changed the lookup size to: change define('LOOKUP_SIZE', 3);
Even now it has been running for 15 min. with no result.

My compliments for the great work, and the kindness of sharing!

Kind regards,

Joost