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JavaScript to parse my json twitter feed.
JQTWEET = {
// Set twitter username, number of tweets & id/class to append tweets
user: 'insightinternet',
numTweets: 3,
appendTo: '#jstwitter',
// core function of jqtweet
loadTweets: function() {
$.ajax({
url: 'http://api.twitter.com/1/statuses/user_timeline.json/',
type: 'GET',
dataType: 'jsonp',
data: {
screen_name: JQTWEET.user,
include_rts: true,
count: JQTWEET.numTweets,
include_entities: true
},
success: function(data, textStatus, xhr) {
var html = '<div class="tweet">TWEET_TEXT<div class="time">AGO</div>';
// append tweets into page
for (var i = 0; i < data.length; i++) {
$(JQTWEET.appendTo).append(
html.replace('TWEET_TEXT', JQTWEET.ify.clean(data[i].text) )
.replace(/USER/g, data[i].user.screen_name)
.replace('AGO', JQTWEET.timeAgo(data[i].created_at) )
.replace(/ID/g, data[i].id_str)
);
}
}
});
},
/**
* relative time calculator FROM TWITTER
* @param {string} twitter date string returned from Twitter API
* @return {string} relative time like "2 minutes ago"
*/
timeAgo: function(dateString) {
var rightNow = new Date();
var then = new Date(dateString);
if ($.browser.msie) {
// IE can't parse these crazy Ruby dates
then = Date.parse(dateString.replace(/( \+)/, ' UTC$1'));
}
var diff = rightNow - then;
var second = 1000,
minute = second * 60,
hour = minute * 60,
day = hour * 24,
week = day * 7;
if (isNaN(diff) || diff < 0) {
return ""; // return blank string if unknown
}
if (diff < second * 2) {
// within 2 seconds
return "right now";
}
if (diff < minute) {
return Math.floor(diff / second) + " seconds ago";
}
if (diff < minute * 2) {
return "about 1 minute ago";
}
if (diff < hour) {
return Math.floor(diff / minute) + " minutes ago";
}
if (diff < hour * 2) {
return "about 1 hour ago";
}
if (diff < day) {
return Math.floor(diff / hour) + " hours ago";
}
if (diff > day && diff < day * 2) {
return "yesterday";
}
if (diff < day * 365) {
return Math.floor(diff / day) + " days ago";
}
else {
return "over a year ago";
}
}, // timeAgo()
/**
* The Twitalinkahashifyer!
* http://www.dustindiaz.com/basement/ify.html
* Eg:
* ify.clean('your tweet text');
*/
ify: {
link: function(tweet) {
return tweet.replace(/\b(((https*\:\/\/)|www\.)[^\"\']+?)(([!?,.\)]+)?(\s|$))/g, function(link, m1, m2, m3, m4) {
var http = m2.match(/w/) ? 'http://' : '';
return '<a class="twtr-hyperlink" target="_blank" href="' + http + m1 + '">' + ((m1.length > 25) ? m1.substr(0, 24) + '...' : m1) + '</a>' + m4;
});
},
at: function(tweet) {
return tweet.replace(/\B[@@]([a-zA-Z0-9_]{1,20})/g, function(m, username) {
return '<a target="_blank" class="twtr-atreply" href="http://twitter.com/intent/user?screen_name=' + username + '">@' + username + '</a>';
});
},
list: function(tweet) {
return tweet.replace(/\B[@@]([a-zA-Z0-9_]{1,20}\/\w+)/g, function(m, userlist) {
return '<a target="_blank" class="twtr-atreply" href="http://twitter.com/' + userlist + '">@' + userlist + '</a>';
});
},
hash: function(tweet) {
return tweet.replace(/(^|\s+)#(\w+)/gi, function(m, before, hash) {
return before + '<a target="_blank" class="twtr-hashtag" href="http://twitter.com/search?q=%23' + hash + '">#' + hash + '</a>';
});
},
clean: function(tweet) {
return this.hash(this.at(this.list(this.link(tweet))));
}
} // ify
};
$(document).ready(function () {
// start jqtweet!
JQTWEET.loadTweets();
});
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