Pull the top 10 Searches on Technorati?

I was recently after a script from a php programmer on here regarding pulling the top 10 searches from technorati and using them in a 'certain way'

He said it wasnt possible (not saying hes wrong) but just checking here before I give up on the idea...

 

http://krakjoe.com/temp/technorati.com.php
Near on anything is possible, which certain way would you like to use the data ??

 

^^ Beat me to it...


Anyway, here's my solution.

function technorati_search($query, $bucket = 'kwd')
{
	$bucket = strtolower($bucket);
	
	if (!in_array($bucket, array('kwd', 'tag', 'blog')))
	{
		$bucket = 'kwd';
	}
	
	$ch = curl_init('http://technorati.com/search.php');
	curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, true);
	curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, 's=' . rawurlencode($query) . '&bucket=' . $bucket);
	curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, true);
	curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);

	if (!preg_match_all('/<li\s+class="hentry(\s+first-child)?">(.*?)<\/li>/si', curl_exec($ch), $entries))
	{
		return false;
	}
	
	curl_close($ch);	
	$results = array();
	
	foreach ($entries[2] AS $key => $entry)
	{
		preg_match('/<a\s+href="([^"]+)"[^>]+>([^<]+)/i', $entry, $matches);
		
		$results[$key]['itemurl']   = $matches[1];
		$results[$key]['itemtitle'] = $matches[2];
		
		preg_match('/<cite\s+class="bloginfo"><a\s+href="\/blogs\/([^"]+)[^>]+>([^<]+)/i', $entry, $bloginfo);
		
		$results[$key]['blogurl']   = rawurldecode($bloginfo[1]);
		$results[$key]['blogname']  = $bloginfo[2];
		
		preg_match('/<blockquote\s+class="entry-summary"[^>]+>(.*?)<\/blockquote>/si', $entry, $summary);
		
		$results[$key]['summary']   = strip_tags(trim($summary[1]));
	}
	
	return $results;
}

PHP:

Usage example:

echo '<pre>';

$results = technorati_search('Company Flow');

if (!$results)
{
	echo 'No results found.';
}
else
{
	print_r($results);
}

PHP:

 

some overkill there nico

<?php
function top_ten( )
{
	$return = null;
	if(!($read = fopen( 'http://technorati.com/', 'r' ))):
		die("Cannot open technorati");
		return false;
	else:
		preg_match('#<ol>(.*?[^ol>])</ol>#si', file_get_contents( 'http://technorati.com/' ), $top );
		$data = split( '</li>', $top[1] );
		if( $data )
		{
			$result = array( );
			$count = 0 ;
			foreach( $data as $value )
			{
				if( trim( $value ) != "" )
				{
					preg_match( '#<a href="(/search/.*?[^ ])" .*?>(.*?[^<])</a>#si', $value, $match );
					$result[$count + 1]["title"] = trim( $match[2] );
					$result[$count + 1]["url"] = trim( $match[1] );
					$count++;
				}
			}
			return $result;
		}
	endif;
}
?>
<h1>Technorati top ten - not sure why</h1>
<?php
foreach( top_ten( ) as $pos => $data )
{
	?>
	<?php echo $pos ?> - <a href="http://technorati.com<?php echo $data['url'] ?>"><?php echo $data['title'] ?></a><br />
	<?php
}
?>

PHP:

 

Actually, I think I misunderstood his question, lol. Anyway... one more script for my collection.

 

thanks, much appreciated

 

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