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Created February 21, 2010 20:48
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Grabs a JSON version of your twitter feed and displays it.
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gistfile1.htm
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"/>
<title>Tweets</title>
<script type="text/javascript" language="javascript" src="jquery-1.4.1.min.js"></script>
<script>
$(document).ready(function(){
// your username
var username = "mrandyclark"
// number of tweets to grab
var numOfTweets = "1"
var twitter_url = "http://twitter.com/status/user_timeline/" + username +".json?count=" + numOfTweets + "&callback=?";
$.getJSON(twitter_url, function(data){
$.each(data, function(i, item) {
$("#latest_tweets").append(
linkify(item.text)
)
});
});
});
// changes links in your tweet to html links
function linkify(text) {
var exp = /(\b(https?|ftp|file):\/\/[-A-Z0-9+&@#\/%?=~_|!:,.;]*[-A-Z0-9+&@#\/%=~_|])/ig;
return text.replace(exp,"<a href='$1' target=\"_blank\">$1</a>");
};
</script>
</head>
<body>
<div id="latest_tweets"></div>
</body>
</html>
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