Import StatusNet group aliases to your local instance

getAliases.php

<?php

/**
 * Quick and dirty script to import StatusNet group aliases to your local instance.
 * Could definitely use some improvements, but it seems to works okay for my needs.
 *
 * HOWTO:
 * Change the four variables below to match your configurations and run the script.
 */

// Change this
$host = 'localhost';
$user = 'username';
$pass = 'password';
$db = 'database';

// Hide warnings
error_reporting(E_ALL ^ (E_NOTICE | E_WARNING));

// Number of inserted notice when script is done
$successes = 0;

$link = mysql_connect($host, $user, $pass) or die('Could not connect: ' . mysql_error());
mysql_select_db($db) or die('Could not select database');

$query = 'SELECT user_group.uri, user_group.id FROM (SELECT DISTINCTROW group_id FROM group_member) gm INNER JOIN user_group ON user_group.id = gm.group_id;';
$result = mysql_query($query) or die('Query failed: ' . mysql_error());

while ($row = mysql_fetch_row($result)) {
    $ch = curl_init($row[0]);

    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, 0);
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, 0);
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, 1);
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_MAXREDIRS, 3);

    if(($html = curl_exec($ch)) === false) {
        echo "<p class='error'>" . curl_error($ch) . "</p>";
        curl_close($ch);
        continue;
    }

    curl_close($ch);

    echo "Fetched: " . $row[0] . "\n";

    $dom = new DOMDocument();
    $dom->loadHTML($html);

    if($dom === false) {
        echo "Error loading HTML\n";
        continue;
    }

    $xpath = new DOMXPath($dom);
    $xqry = '//li[@class="group_alias"]/text()';

    $entries = $xpath->query($xqry);

    echo "Found $entries->length aliase(s): \n";

    foreach ($entries as $entry) {
        echo "  * $entry->nodeValue \n";
    }

    foreach ($entries as $entry) {
        $query = sprintf("INSERT INTO group_alias (group_id, alias) VALUES ('%s', '%s')",
            mysql_real_escape_string($row[1]),
            mysql_real_escape_string($entry->nodeValue));

        $inserted = mysql_query($query);

        if(!$inserted) {
            if(mysql_errno() == 1062) { // Duplicate entry (we already have the alias, safely ignore)
                $message = 'Alias "' . $entry->nodeValue . '" already in db, skipping.';
            } else {
                $message  = 'Invalid query: ' . mysql_error() . "\n";
                $message .= 'Whole query: ' . $query;
            }
        }
        else {
            $message = 'Successfully inserted alias "' . $entry->nodeValue . '".';
            $successes++;
        }

        echo $message . "\n";
    }
}

echo "\n*** Done ***\n";
echo "Inserted $successes new aliase(s)\n";

?>

not work for me, or maybe do not know how to use it.

@mama21mama You need to change the database credentials first so the script can access your database.
Line 11-15:

// Change this
$host = 'localhost';
$user = 'username';
$pass = 'password';
$db = 'database';

After that, you can run it with "php ./getAliases.php" as you mentioned.

If you're still running into problems, let me know what the error message says (if any).