Here is a PHP code snippet to check if username (screen name) exists, by the Twitter API with twitteroauth library by Abraham Williams: https://github.com/abraham/twitteroauth.
Code Snippet – check if username exists
<?php
require_once 'lib/twitteroauth.php';
define('CONSUMER_KEY', 'your_consumer_key');
define('CONSUMER_SECRET', 'your_consumer_secret');
define('ACCESS_TOKEN', 'your_access_token');
define('ACCESS_TOKEN_SECRET', 'your_access_token_secret');
function find_users(array $users)
{
$founds = array();
$toa = new TwitterOAuth(CONSUMER_KEY, CONSUMER_SECRET, ACCESS_TOKEN, ACCESS_TOKEN_SECRET);
// Up to 100 users per request.
$userAry = array_slice($users, 0, 100);
// Init with "not found" for all users.
foreach ($userAry as $user) {
$founds[$user] = false;
}
// Find existing users by "screen_name".
$userObjs= $toa->post('users/lookup', array('screen_name' => implode(',', $userAry)));
// Set "found" for existing users.
foreach ($userObjs as $userObj) {
$founds[$userObj->screen_name] = true;
}
return $founds;
}
The find_users function accepts an array of usernames (screen names) and returns an array of existences with true/false for each given username.
Sample program
$users = array('aaa', 'qwertyuiop0123', '@@@');
$founds = find_users($users);
var_dump($founds);
Output
array(3) {
["aaa"]=>
bool(true)
["qwertyuiop0123"]=>
bool(false)
["@@@"]=>
bool(false)
}
Note
The find_users function checks up to 100 users per call. A single users/lookup request allows up to 100 users (See: https://dev.twitter.com/docs/api/1.1/get/users/lookup).
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Just tried it and its not really working.
Heres the call:
$twitter_array = array($twitter, “Jayztwocents”, “Barnacules”, “Barnacules Nerdgasm”, “Inu-ki”, “Inukii”, “HiRezStew”, “schisam”);
$check_twitter = find_users($twitter_array);
Theres my result (notice empty string at the end, why its there and why its true?):
array(9) {
[“MiChAeLoKGB”]=> bool(false)
[“Jayztwocents”]=> bool(false)
[“Barnacules”]=> bool(false)
[“Barnacules Nerdgasm”]=> bool(false)
[“Inu-ki”]=> bool(false)
[“Inukii”]=> bool(false)
[“HiRezStew”]=> bool(false)
[“schisam”]=> bool(false)
[“”]=> bool(true)
}
Your array contains multi-byte double-quote characters. Replace them with single-byte characters, then you can get a correct result:
$users = array("Jayztwocents", "Barnacules", "Barnacules Nerdgasm", "Inu-ki", "Inukii", "HiRezStew", "schisam"); $founds = find_users($users); var_dump($founds);array(8) { ["Jayztwocents"]=> bool(false) ["Barnacules"]=> bool(true) ["Barnacules Nerdgasm"]=> bool(false) ["Inu-ki"]=> bool(false) ["Inukii"]=> bool(true) ["HiRezStew"]=> bool(true) ["schisam"]=> bool(true) ["JayzTwoCents"]=> bool(true) }