Get Tweets with MooTools
Sep
19
2009To give this site a little dynamism, I decided (as many others have) to pull my latest tweets into the rather barren sidebar. David Walsh’s TwitterGitter was a good start, but I saw some room for improvement by subclassing Request.JSONP. The result is a great example of how MooTools grants you a great deal of object oriented power. I kept David’s linkify method (with some regex tweaks) because it is awesome.
Request.Twitter = new Class({
Extends: Request.JSONP,
options: {
linkify: true,
url: 'http://twitter.com/statuses/user_timeline/{term}.json',
data: {
count: 5
}
},
initialize: function(term, options){
this.parent(options);
this.options.url = this.options.url.substitute({term: term});
},
success: function(data, script){
if (this.options.linkify) data.each(function(tweet){
tweet.text = this.linkify(tweet.text);
}, this);
// keep subsequent calls newer
if (data[0]) this.options.data.since_id = data[0].id;
this.parent(data, script);
},
linkify: function(text){
// modified from TwitterGitter by David Walsh (davidwalsh.name)
// courtesy of Jeremy Parrish (rrish.org)
return text.replace(/(https?:\/\/[\w\-:;?&=+.%#\/]+)/gi, '<a href="$1">$1</a>')
.replace(/(^|\W)@(\w+)/g, '$1<a href="http://twitter.com/$2">@$2</a>')
.replace(/(^|\W)#(\w+)/g, '$1#<a href="http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%23$2">$2</a>');
}
});
Hopefully the code speaks for itself. I’ll keep this Gist updated with any bugfixes.