Get recent blog posts from popular blogging platforms with PHP

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

arifszn / php-blog-client

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

Usage

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

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

• getMediumPost(): Get 10 recent posts from medium.

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

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

Step 2

Import it.

use Arifszn\Blog\Client;

Step 3

Use it.

$client = new Client();
$devPosts = $client->getDevPost('yourusername');
$mediumPosts = $client->getMediumPost('yourusername');

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"
  ]
]

Now, showcase them on your website like this example.
NPM package is also available here.

Source Code
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Comments

[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? 🤔

[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.