Twitter_in_Javascript.js

/*
Javascript interface to Twitter search API.
Call it like

Twitter.search({q:'"is down'",
  callback:function(data){
    doSomethingAwesome(data)
  }
})
You can also use any of the other options like lang, since_id, etc.

It should be framework agnostic too. Though, I like prototype.
*/
Twitter = {
  _callbacks:{}
};

Twitter.search = function(opts){
  //opts.q
  //opts.since_id
  //opts.rpp
  //opts.lang
  //opts.page  
  //opts.callback
  var query_parts=[];
  for(key in opts)
  {
    if(key!='callback')
      query_parts.push(escape(key)+'='+escape(opts[key]));
  }
  var key = "c"+Date.now().toString()
  Twitter._callbacks[key] = function(data){
      opts.callback(data.results); 
      delete Twitter._callbacks[key]
    }

  query_parts.push("callback=Twitter._callbacks."+key)

  var body = document.getElementsByTagName("body")[0];
  var script = document.createElement("script");
  script.src = "http://search.twitter.com/search.json?"+query_parts.join("&")
  body.appendChild(script)
}