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/* | |
* twitter-entities.js | |
* This function converts a tweet with "entity" metadata | |
* from plain text to linkified HTML. | |
* | |
* See the documentation here: http://dev.twitter.com/pages/tweet_entities | |
* Basically, add ?include_entities=true to your timeline call | |
* | |
* Copyright 2010, Wade Simmons | |
* Licensed under the MIT license | |
* http://wades.im/mons | |
* | |
* Requires jQuery | |
*/ | |
function escapeHTML(text) { | |
return $('<div/>').text(text).html() | |
} | |
function linkify_entities(tweet) { | |
if (!(tweet.entities)) { | |
return escapeHTML(tweet.text) | |
} | |
// This is very naive, should find a better way to parse this | |
var index_map = {} | |
$.each(tweet.entities.urls, function(i,entry) { | |
index_map[entry.indices[0]] = [entry.indices[1], function(text) {return "<a href='"+escapeHTML(entry.url)+"'>"+escapeHTML(entry.display_url)+"</a>"}] | |
}) | |
$.each(tweet.entities.hashtags, function(i,entry) { | |
index_map[entry.indices[0]] = [entry.indices[1], function(text) {return "<a href='http://twitter.com/search?q="+escape("#"+entry.text)+"'>"+escapeHTML(text)+"</a>"}] | |
}) | |
$.each(tweet.entities.user_mentions, function(i,entry) { | |
index_map[entry.indices[0]] = [entry.indices[1], function(text) {return "<a title='"+escapeHTML(entry.name)+"' href='http://twitter.com/"+escapeHTML(entry.screen_name)+"'>"+escapeHTML(text)+"</a>"}] | |
}) | |
$.each(tweet.entities.media || [], function(i,entry) { | |
index_map[entry.indices[0]] = [entry.indices[1], function(text) {return "<img src='"+escapeHTML(entry.media.media_url_https || entry.media_url)+"'></img>"}]; | |
}); | |
var result = "" | |
var last_i = 0 | |
var i = 0 | |
// iterate through the string looking for matches in the index_map | |
for (i=0; i < tweet.text.length; ++i) { | |
var ind = index_map[i] | |
if (ind) { | |
var end = ind[0] | |
var func = ind[1] | |
if (i > last_i) { | |
result += escapeHTML(tweet.text.substring(last_i, i)) | |
} | |
result += func(tweet.text.substring(i, end)) | |
i = end - 1 | |
last_i = end | |
} | |
} | |
if (i > last_i) { | |
result += escapeHTML(tweet.text.substring(last_i, i)) | |
} | |
return result | |
} |
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