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Created December 10, 2013 14:09
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Parse Tumblr Tweets
function parseTweet(text) {
var patterns = {
link: /(\b(https?|ftp|file):\/\/[-A-Z0-9+&@#\/%?=~_|!:,.;]*[-A-Z0-9+&@#\/%=~_|])/ig,
user: /(^|\s)@(\w+)/g,
hash: /(^|\s)#(\w+)/g
};
return text.replace(patterns.link,'<a href="$1" target="_blank">$1</a>')
.replace(patterns.user, '$1@<a href="http://www.twitter.com/$2" target="_blank">$2</a>')
.replace(patterns.hash, '$1#<a href="http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%23$2" target="_blank">$2</a>');
}
function recent_tweets(data) {
for (i=0; i<data.length; i++) {
document.getElementById("tweets").innerHTML =
document.getElementById("tweets").innerHTML +
'<div>' + parseTweet(data[i].text) + '</div>';
}
document.getElementById("twitter").style.display = 'block';
}
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Some really simple, no library, tweet parsing. Why? Rather than having a tweet that links to your timeline, you can now have the tweet in its full glory.

No credit taken as the parseTweet function was copied from another gist, will find source.

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ara303 commented Dec 11, 2013

<3 Thank you for this.

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