tweetify: linkify & imagify tweets from twitter api

readme.md

tweetify.js formats tweet entities from api.twitter.com for html display:

• user mentions
• media
• urls
• hashtags

before and after:

this function is meant to be used after you retrieve your data from the twitter api. i'm using the https://twitteroauth.com/ library for this.

tweetify.js

function tweetify(tweet) {
	var text = tweet.text;
	var searchMask;
	var replaceMask;
	
	if (tweet.entities != null) {
		//turn mentions into links
		var mentions = tweet.entities.user_mentions;
		if (mentions != null) {
			for (var i = 0; i < mentions.length; i++) {
				var name = mentions[i].screen_name;
				searchMask = "@"+name;
				var regEx = new RegExp(searchMask, "ig");
				replaceMask = "<a href='http://twitter.com/" + name + "' target='_blank'>@" + name + "</a>";
				text = text.replace(regEx, replaceMask);
			}
		}
		//turn images/video into thumbnails with links
		var media = tweet.entities.media;
		if (media != null) {
			for (var i = 0; i < media.length; i++) {
				var pic = media[i];
				searchMask = pic.url;
				var regEx = new RegExp(searchMask, "ig");
				replaceMask = "<br/><br/><a href='" + pic.url + "' target='_blank'><img src='" + pic.media_url + ":thumb'/></a>";
				text = text.replace(regEx, replaceMask);
			}
		}
		//turn urls into links
		var urls = tweet.entities.urls;
		if (urls != null) {
			for (var i = 0; i < urls.length; i++) {
				var url = urls[i];
				searchMask = url.url;
				var regEx = new RegExp(searchMask, "ig");
				replaceMask = "<a href='" + url.url + "' target='_blank'>" + url.display_url + "</a>";
				text = text.replace(regEx, replaceMask);
			}
		}
		//turn hashtags into links
		var hashtags = tweet.entities.hashtags;
		if (hashtags != null) {
			for (var i = 0; i < hashtags.length; i++) {
				var hashtag = hashtags[i];
				searchMask = '#' + hashtag.text;
				var regEx = new RegExp(searchMask, "ig");
				replaceMask = "<a href='http://twitter.com/hashtag/" + hashtag.text + "' target='_blank'>#" + hashtag.text + "</a>";
				text = text.replace(regEx, replaceMask);
			}
		}
	}
	return text;
}