Twittercast: Shoutcast / Icecast Song Title To Twitter Status PHP Script

[dopelabs]

Shoutcast song title to twitter php script.

This will query a shoutcast server for the currently playing song and set it as your twitter status.
Only updates when the song changes.

Download Here

Instructions:

1. Download required files
2. Edit twitterAPI.php username and password
3. Edit twittercast.php server info
6. Upload all files in the same web directory
7. Access twittercast.php using your browser or set up a cron job to hit it every 10 mins
8. Check your twitter for results

[dopelabs]

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Good work.

Am i ok to post this here with the other collectoin of scripts? http://www.streamsolutions.co.uk/resources/scripts

[dopelabs]

Yes you may distribute freely =]

updated file attached

[crankygeek]

Not working

Well, I've done my best to set this up. I know the Twitter API is working fine because it does post, however all I get in a post is "Now Playing: " I have to delete the title.txt to get it to do it again. I have set IP and port in the .php

Am I missing something?

[dopelabs]

The way this works is. the script will check the shoutcast server for the currently playing song. It then checks the title.txt for the same title info... if the title.txt file is empty, or it has different title info, it will send that data to twitter, and it will also write that to the title.txt file.

This script will ONLY update the title info if its different from the last time it checked, thus not posting the same title every min. (or however long you set your cron job for)

here is an example of a cron job that could be used:

*/10 * * * * wget -O /dev/null http://www.domain.com/twittercast.php >> /dev/null 2>&1

things to keep in mind:

make sure the title.txt file is writable by your webserver (chmod 777 title.txt) and in the same directory as everything else.

make sure there actually IS title info on your shoutcast server..

just visit your shoutcast server in your browser to check that.


I am also posting a new version.

Changes:

Support for multiple servers
Added listener count to twitter output
Added page refresh for automatic in-browser updates


see working examples at www twitter com / dubstepfm

[crankygeek]

I know the server has titles and they do change. Is there a difference from hitting it with a browser or using a cronjob?

[dopelabs]

no difference.. it will work either way

[crankygeek]

I did a chmod of the .txt to 777 , no help.

the two .php's should be at 644, correct?

[crankygeek]

also, can you tell me if the script puts any output on the page when executed via web browser. All I get is

// Twittercast Shoutcast Twitter Status Script By DopeLabs - http://www.dubstep.fm // Twittercast Shoutcast Twitter Status Script By DopeLabs - http://www.dubstep.fm

[dopelabs]

the new version displays exactly what will show up in your twitter status

[crankygeek]

downloaded new version, edited high bitrate server ip and port, didnt touch anything else.

Warning: Unexpected character in input: ''' (ASCII=39) state=1 in /home/wdosfm/public_html/twitterstuff/twittercast_multi.php on line 113 Parse error: syntax error, unexpected ')' in /home/wdosfm/public_html/twitterstuff/twittercast_multi.php on line 113

any idea?

[dopelabs]

im not sure what to tell you...

this is what line 113 looks like on mine:

$twitter_status=postToTwitter($twitter_username, $twitter_psw, 'Now Playing: '.$song[1] .' - ' .$total_listeners .' Listeners');

note that the username and password IS NOT entered here but in the API page

This is my Twitter status

Now Playing: [ARCHIVE] 2008-12-12 The Supernormous Smoke Sessions With Tminus Shambles Jviz KidLogic And Guests - 357 Listeners

This is my browser output

Now Playing: [ARCHIVE] 2008-12-12 The Supernormous Smoke Sessions With Tminus Shambles Jviz KidLogic And Guests - 357 Listeners



My station has 4 servers... so my ip and port block looks like this ( i changed my actual IPs )

$ip[1] = "123.123.123.123";
$port[1] = "80";

$ip[2] = "123.123.123.124";
$port[2] = "8000";

$ip[3] = "123.123.123.125";
$port[3] = "8030";

$ip[4] = "123.123.123.126";
$port[4] = "8050";

if you only have 1 server.. erase blocks 2, 3, and 4... if you need more add 5, 6, and so on

[aaronsnet]

Originally posted by crankygeek
downloaded new version, edited high bitrate server ip and port, didnt touch anything else.




any idea?

Maybe something you were trying to send had an apostrophe ( ' ) in it?

Also, if you send a duplicate to your previous twitter post...I don't think that it actually posts it again. I am pretty sure that it just ignores it.

Twitter has been nice to archive playlists though.

[dopelabs]

thats why it writes the title info to title.txt it checks that for differences and will only post to twitter if there is a 'new' song.

yea maybe the song title has a ' in it...