Coffeescript implementation of a twitter jquery plugin compiled version

coffeescript_twitter_jquery.js

/* DO NOT MODIFY. This file was compiled Wed, 18 May 2011 11:49:14 GMT from
 * /Users/mwawrusch/Documents/triponadeal/app/scripts/jquery.recent-tweets.coffee
 */

(function() {
  var $;
  $ = jQuery;
  $.fn.extend({
    recentTweets: function(options) {
      var opts, self;
      self = $.fn.recentTweets;
      opts = $.extend({}, self.default_options, options);
      return this.each(function(i, el) {
        self.init(el, opts);
        if (opts.log) {
          return self.log(el);
        }
      });
    }
  });
  $.extend($.fn.recentTweets, {
    default_options: {
      userName: "martin_sunset",
      numTweets: 10,
      loaderText: "Loading tweets...",
      tweetContentArea: ".recent_tweets",
      animationSpeed: "slow",
      cycleInterval: 10000,
      log: false
    },
    init: function(el, opts) {
      var $content, url;
      $content = $(el).find(opts.tweetContentArea);
      $content.text(opts.loaderText);
      url = "http://twitter.com/status/user_timeline/" + opts.userName + ".json?count=" + opts.numTweets + "&callback=?";
      return $.getJSON(url, function(data) {
        var $text, counter, tweets;
        tweets = [];
        $.each(data, function(i, post) {
          var txt;
          txt = post.text;
          txt = txt.replace(/[A-Za-z]+:\/\/[A-Za-z0-9-_]+\.[A-Za-z0-9-_:%&~\?\/.=]+/g, function(url) {
            return url.link(url);
          });
          txt = txt.replace(/[@]+[A-Za-z0-9-_]+/g, function(u) {
            return u.link("http://twitter.com/" + (u.replace('@', '')));
          });
          txt = txt.replace(/[#]+[A-Za-z0-9-_]+/g, function(t) {
            return t.link("http://search.twitter.com/search?q=" + (t.replace('#', '%23')));
          });
          return tweets.push("<span>" + txt + "</span>");
        });
        if (tweets.length === 0) {
          return $content.text("No tweets available");
        } else {
          counter = 0;
          $text = $(tweets[counter]).hide();
          $content.html($text);
          $text.fadeIn(opts.animationSpeed);
          return setInterval((function() {
            counter++;
            if (counter >= tweets.length) {
              counter = 0;
            }
            return $content.children().fadeOut(opts.animationSpeed, function() {
              $content.empty();
              $text = $(tweets[counter]).hide();
              $content.html($text);
              return $text.fadeIn(opts.animationSpeed);
            });
          }), opts.cycleInterval);
        }
      });
    },
    log: function(msg) {
      if ((typeof console !== "undefined" && console !== null) && (console.log != null)) {
        return console.log(msg);
      }
    }
  });
}).call(this);