Creating a Social Media Aggregator with Symfony

In this tutorial, we will build a social media aggregator using Symfony that will fetch and display content from various social media platforms such as Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook. Users will be able to interact with the aggregated content, like posts, comment, and share. For this tutorial, we will focus on Twitter and Instagram integration as Facebook API access requires special approval.

Prerequisites:

Basic knowledge of PHP and Symfony framework.

Composer installed on your system.

Let’s get started!

Step 1: Set Up Symfony Project

Create a new Symfony project using Symfony CLI or Composer:

symfony new social_media_aggregator
cd social_media_aggregator

Step 2: Install Required Libraries

We’ll need some libraries to work with Twitter and Instagram APIs. Install them via Composer:

composer require abraham/twitteroauth:^1.0 guzzlehttp/guzzle:^7.0 kozz/instagram:^0.3

Step 3: Create Twitter and Instagram Apps

To use the Twitter and Instagram APIs, you need to create developer accounts and obtain API credentials: