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Ariful Alam
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Get recent blog posts from popular blogging platforms with PHP

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PHP Blog Client is a PHP package to get recent blog posts from popular blogging platforms by just providing your username and showcase them on your portfolio or website.

Currently available platforms:

  • Dev
  • Medium

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PHP client to get recent blog posts from popular blogging platforms.


PHP client to get recent blog posts from popular blogging platforms

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Get recent blog posts from popular blogging platforms by just providing your username and showcase them on your portfolio or website.

JavaScript version: blog.js

Installation

Install via composer

composer require arifszn/blog-client
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Usage

  • getDevPost(): Get 10 recent posts from dev.

    use Arifszn\Blog\Client; $client = new Client(); $result = $client->getDevPost('yourusername');
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  • getMediumPost(): Get 10 recent posts from medium.

    use Arifszn\Blog\Client; $client = new Client(); $result = $client->getMediumPost('yourusername');
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Sample Response

array:2 [▼ 0 => array:6 [▼ "title" => "Why Enhancing Virtual Reality is Important" "description" => "Virtual reality is seen
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Step 1

To get started, install via composer.

composer require arifszn/blog-client
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Step 2

Import it.

use Arifszn\Blog\Client;
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Step 3

Use it.

$client = new Client(); $devPosts = $client->getDevPost('yourusername'); $mediumPosts = $client->getMediumPost('yourusername');
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It will return 10 most recent posts. Here is a sample response:

array:2 [▼ 0 => array:6 [▼ "title" => "Why Enhancing Virtual Reality is Important", "description" => "Virtual reality is seen as a “fun” technology to some without much...", "thumbnail" => "https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/2600/0*kz30LOdXT8CyOymh", "link" => "https://medium.com/p/ac19dd21c728", "categories" => array:5 [▼ "vr", "technology", "virtual-reality", "engineering", "artificial-intelligence" ], "publishedAt" => "2020-11-08 18:43:34" ], 1 => array:6 [▼ "title" => "How to Get Started With Data Science: a Brief Guide", "description" => "You’ve heard about data science and machine learning, and you want to get started. Maybe you hear...", "thumbnail" => "https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/2600/0*Ah0vLtsvxqUvRWuS", "link" => "https://medium.com/p/88ec244f2fee", "categories" => array:3 [▼ "beginner-coding", "data-science-training", "machine-learning-course" ], "publishedAt" => "2020-26-07 22:55:26" ] ]
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Now, showcase them on your website like this example.
NPM package is also available here.

Source Code
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Top comments (2)

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Jan Vlnas •

I am curious. Why don't you use the RSS feeds directly with, for example, SimplePie or SimpleXML, instead of running them through a third party service for conversion to JSON? 🤔

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Ariful Alam •

Actually, the php package is a conversion of my JS package github.com/arifszn/blog.js. In the JS package, didn't want to install additional library and used the third party service.