Monitor Twitter username for availability

NOTE: This is a quick and dirty script. Some prior knowledge of Twitter API, PHP and cronjobs would be helpful.

We search each username via the Twitter API and look for Error CODE 50 = User not found.

I cannot provide assistance with setup, configuration or support. I provide the code "as-is".

REQUIREMENTS

1. Twitter API https://developer.twitter.com/

2. Server-side PHP and Cron.

Username Setup

Add your usernames to the file usernames.txt and make sure each ends with a comma "," and contains no spaces.

For example, usernames.txt contents would look like:

handle1,handle2,handle3,

Twitter API Setup

Add your Twitter API details to the file config.php

Cronjob Setup

Twitter has API rate limit of 1 query per second. Limit the number of usernames to monitor accordingly.

You can set up a cron job to execute the file bot.php every x minutes.

Notification Setup

Add your email address in the file bot.php where you see:

$recipient_email = "";