migrating jaiku to identi.ca or twitter
Apr 13, 2009 · 2 minute readcode
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i recently decided to move my tech tips microblog to identi.ca (the original copy was on jaiku), as i felt it was a little more befitting, actively developed, etc (although jaiku is now open source).
anyway… so i wanted to migrate my posts over - so i wrote a php script to do it (it assumes your jaiku is public and reads it without hassling with oauth).
<?php
$sleepTime = 5;
$jaikuSource = "http://username.jaiku.com/json";
$mode = 'identi.ca';
$baseStatusUrl = 'http://identi.ca/api/statuses/update.json';
// thanks, php-twitter
if ($mode == 'twitter'){
$baseStatusUrl = 'http://twitter.com/statuses/update.json';
$headers = array('Expect:', 'X-Twitter-Client: ',
'X-Twitter-Client-Version: ','X-Twitter-Client-URL: ');
}
$ctr = 0;
$entries = array();
print "destination account username: ";
$username = trim(fgets(STDIN));
print "password: ";
system('stty -echo');
$password = trim(fgets(STDIN));
system('stty echo');
print "\n";
$done = false;
$params = '';
while (true){
$count = 0;
$posts = fetchUrl($jaikuSource . $params);
$json = json_decode($posts, true);
$stream = $json['stream'];
$lastEntry = null;
foreach ($stream as $entry){
if (isset($entry['comment_id'])) continue;
$lastEntry = $entry;
$count++;
$entries[$ctr++] = $entry['title'];
}
if ($count == 0) break;
$lastPostTime = $lastEntry['created_at'];
$ts = split('-', $lastPostTime);
$hd = split('T', $ts[2]);
$min = split('Z', $ts[4]);
$gmtime = gmmktime($hd[1], $ts[3], $min[0], $ts[1], $hd[0], $ts[0]) - 1;
$params = "?offset=$gmtime";
}
for ($i = $ctr-1; $i>=0; $i--){
$params = array('status' => $entries[$i]);
if ($i != ($ctr-1)){
print "sleeping $sleepTime seconds\n";
sleep($sleepTime);
}
twitterApiCall($baseStatusUrl, $params);
print "updated status to: " . $entries[$i] . "\n";
}
function fetchUrl($url){
$ch = curl_init($url);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
$resp = curl_exec($ch);
curl_close($ch);
return $resp;
}
function twitterApiCall($url, $args = null){
global $username, $password, $headers;
// thanks, php-twitter
$ch = curl_init($url);
if (!is_null($args)){
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, true);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $args);
}
if ((!empty($username)) && (!empty($password)))
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_USERPWD, $username . ':' . $password);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
if (!empty($headers))
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, $headers);
$resp = curl_exec($ch);
$info = curl_getinfo($ch);
curl_close($ch);
if ($info['http_code']!=200)
print "error - got an http code of: " . $info['http_code'] . "\n";
}
make sure you edit $baseStatusUrl
and $mode
as necessary. enjoy!