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jquery-twitter-feed 1.0.1

jQuery Twitter Plugin with Twitter API 1.1 Support

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Twitter Feed v1.1.0

by Zachary Kniebel

Twitter Feed is a robust and highly customizable jQuery Twitter plugin for rendering tweets passed as JSON objects. The plugin was designed with performance and simplicity in mind, and is completely compatible with Twitter's API 1.1* (more details, below). The plugin includes several examples, including the server-side code necessary for making requests to Twitter, written in both C# and PHP. For those using .NET, Twitter Feed also comes with the initial commit of my new C# Twitter library, TweetNET. More details on TweetNET may be found, below.

TWITTER API 1.1 UPDATE NOTES:

As a result of the new security and authorization requirements that
Twitter included in their API 1.1 update, the support for performing the actual AJAX request to retrieve a user's tweets has been removed. Twitter strongly discourages client-side requests with their new API, as client-side requests would require the exposure of the site's oAuth secrets. As such, I have included support for supplying a the raw, unparsed JSON response from Twitter to the plugin, and have provided both instructions and samples for setting up the necessary account and application on Twitter, and implementing the plugin with .NET and with PHP. For updates and instructions, see the SETUP_INSTRUCTIONS file in the Server-Side Examples directory.

Features:

Ability to show/hide Reply, Retweet and Favorite (all shown by default)
Ability to show/hide Date of tweet - can also be set to link to the tweet (shown and rendered as link by default)
Ability to supply markup to be inserted be inserted before or after any optional links/date
Ability to set the order in which optional links will/date be displayed
Ability to supply a CSS class to any text/markup rendered, including the tweet body and all optional links/date
Ability to specify callback function to be called either when the function completes, or when each tweet is rendered
- note that any callbacks called when the fuction completes will be called before the tweet is done loading (AJAX)
Ability to specify number of tweets to display

Twitter Feed Options Object

count : the number of tweets to display
rawData : the JSON result of the tweet request made to Twitter (string)
prepend : markup to insert before the tweet
append : markup to insert after the tweet
tweetBodyClass : a CSS class applied to the body of each retrieved tweet
date : an object representing optional link settings (see Dates and Optional Link Settings)
reply : an object representing optional link settings (see Optional Link Settings)
retweet : an object representing optional link settings (see Optional Link Settings)
favorite : an object representing optional link settings (see Optional Link Settings)
callbackOnEach : if true, the supplied callback function will be called after each tweet is loaded
callback : an optional callback function to be called after each or all tweet(s) have loaded

Dates

The plugin's included parseTweetDate function parses dates based based on when the tweet was created, similar to the way Twitter does on their own site. The date-ranges in the below table represent the time the tweet was created, relative to the current time. These ranges are used as conditional rules for parsing the dates in their corresponding formats.

  [Time Since Tweeting] :    [Parsed Example]

   1 second - 59 seconds :    43 seconds ago  
   1 minute - 59 minutes :    11 minutes ago  
   1 hour   - 23 hours   :    7 hours ago  
   1 day    - XXXXXXXXXX :    Feb 23 '12

If these formats are not to your liking, you need only replace the parseTweetDate functoin with one of your own.

Optional Link Settings (also applies to date)

Optional link settings are supplied in object literal form. All of the objects representing optional link settings have the following properties:

show : if set to true, the link/date is shown (shown by default)
cssClass : CSS class to be applied to the link/date
order : number (zero-based index) indicating when link should be rendered in ordering
prepend : HTML markup to be inserted before the link/date
append : HTML markup to be inserted after the link/date
link : indicates whether or not the date should link to the tweet (note: effective on date)

TweetNET (initial release, only)

TweetNET is a work-in-progress library that I am working on, to better assist developers in connecting with Twitter via C#. TweetNET IS NOT REQUIRED for Twitter Feed, but may be useful for those using C# or .NET, in general. I have included only the initial release in this project, and will only be updating with bug fixes. The initial release includes support for the statuses/user_timeline and statuses/show/:id requests. For future releases, please view TweetNET's official repository, at https://github.com/zkniebel/TweetNet.

VERSION AND RELEASE NOTES:

-- added TweetNET v1.0 --

-- merged v1.1 into master --

v1.1.0 - Major modern browsers, IE7+ support - Improvements to method of ordering optional links - Updated support for parsing JSON in IE7 and earlier

-- created branch for v1.1 -- -- created branch for v1.0 (version backup) --

v1.0.2 (not named in commit comment) - (Initial Commit: 2deb4ec6f1aacfc92b178f7e1f11b8b9dae39298) - Major modern browsers, IE9+ support - Improvements, optimizations and tweaks post Twitter API 1.1 update - Example plugin call

v1.0.1 (beta): - Major modern browsers, IE9+ support - Twitter API 1.1 support - Server-side examples, improved documentation

v1.0 (alpha): - Major modern browsers, IE7+ support - Twitter API 1.0 support

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