nathancox/silverstripe-social-feed

A social feed module for fetching content from Facebook and Twitter

2.15.3 2019-02-23 02:05 UTC

Requires

• abraham/twitteroauth: ^0.9.2
• league/oauth2-facebook: ^2.0
• league/oauth2-instagram: ^2.0
• silverstripe/framework: ^4

BSD-3-Clause

• Isaac Rankin
• Nathan Cox

• twitter
• facebook
• instagram
• silverstripe
• social feed

README

Combine social media posts from Facebook, Twitter and Instagram into a single feed. Each feed is available separately also.

Installation

composer require isaacrankin/silverstripe-social-feed

Usage

<% include SocialFeed %>

Alternatively you can call the SocialFeed method directly like so:

<div class="social-feed">
	<ol>
		<% loop SocialFeed %>
			<li>
				<a href="$URL" target="_blank">
					<h4>Type: $Type</h4>
					<p>Created: $Created</p>
					<p>User: $UserName</p>
					<p><img src="$Image" /></p>
					<p>$Content</p>
				</a>
			</li>
		<% end_loop %>
	</ol>
</div>

The posts are ordered from newest to oldest.

Within the SocialFeed control loop the following values are available:

• $URL - a URL for the social media post
• $Type - the type of post, either "facebook", "twitter" or "instagram"
• $Created - the creation/posted date of the post
• $UserName - the user who made the post
• $Image - the main image for the post
• $Data - all of the data for a single post in the original structure returned from the API's. Read documentation for the API's to see what's available.

Caching

All SocialMediaProvider::getFeed() calls are cached for 15 minutes and can be cleared either in the CMS or by appending ?socialfeedclearcache=1 in developer mode.

There is also a SocialFeedCacheTask that you can setup as a cronjob on your server to ensure that the end-user never has to wait for your server to make its API calls to Facebook, Twitter, etc and update the various social feed caches.

Alternatively, if you're using the QueuedJobs module, this process will be handled automatically for you, as a queued job is setup to update the cache every 10 minutes.

Requirements

SilverStripe 4 or newer

Twitter

The Twitter data is a collection of the most recent Tweets posted by the user. The following API endpoint is used https://api.twitter.com/1.1/statuses/user_timeline.json?screen_name=twitterapi

Twitter API documentation for user timeline

Credentials

You'll need to create a Twitter app here https://apps.twitter.com/app/

Facebook

The Facebook data returned is the most recent posts for a given Facebook Page. The following API endpoint is used https://graph.facebook.com/PAGE_ID/feed?access_token=ACCESS_TOKEN

Facebook API documentation

Credentials

To get the necessary Facebook API credentials you'll need to create a Facebook App.

Instagram

The most recent media published for a user. The following API endpoint is used https://api.instagram.com/v1/users/self/media/recent/?access_token=ACCESS_TOKEN Instagram API documentation for resent user media

Credentials

To get the necessary Instagram API credentials you'll need to create an Instagram Client.

You'll need to add the correct redirect URI in the settings for the Instagram App, such as http://yoursite.com/admin/social-feed/SocialFeedProviderInstagram/