Comments on: Twitter, Twitter, Twitter

By: Dave

Dave — Tue, 02 Nov 2010 07:07:34 +0000

Both you and the less awsome version of you are legends. Thanks for this, works like a chaaaarm when I commented out those two lines. Thank you very kindly for making this available to fauxgrammers like me.

By: Martin

Martin — Fri, 10 Sep 2010 18:01:03 +0000

Hey Stan.
I haven’t gotten around to check this yet, but the class did originally return the original string if no URLs were found. Guess I changed something and borked it. :D

Thanks for keeping me on my toes. I’ll fix it as soon as I have some spare time.

By: Stan

Stan — Thu, 12 Aug 2010 09:57:30 +0000

Hi Martin,

Good work! I found one small issue though which is more related to your URLValidator class.

The tag method of the URLValidator returns an empty string if there isn’t a link in the search string. So when you do tweet.linked = urlvalidator.tag(sTweet); tweet.linked is an empty string if there isn’t a link in the tweet.

And I know it’s crazy, but apparently there are tweets without any links ;)

It may be intended to work that way, but my expection would be to return the original text if it didn’t find a link so I modified the the tag method of the URLValidator class checking if any urls were found at all before proceeding to parse them.

var urls : Array = find(stringToSearch);

if (urls.length<1) {
return stringToSearch;
}

By: James

James — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 19:00:07 +0000

Thanks a lot for your work – it is great. I would not have had a clue how to do it!

By: Martin

Martin — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 13:51:22 +0000

That sounds strange. It updates in a few seconds here.

By: vicky

vicky — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 12:36:05 +0000

Haiii…thanks for the class you share….
very awesome work…..
but…one question….
how long did the twitter update the feed

on my web site it takes hours to get the newest twitter update,,,, any suggestion

big thanks,
vicky

By: Anthony

Anthony — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 19:15:51 +0000

Awesome work…I can get it working locally, but I’ve been unable to get it up and running, once I upload to the server.

By: Martin

Martin — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 10:10:47 +0000

@Dan Ah. Seems I let some legacy code sneak it’s way back in there.

Thanks for pointing that out for me. :) I corrected in the code above.

By: Dan

Dan — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 20:34:04 +0000

Hey Martin,
Just wanted to say a big “Thanks!” for this class. It’s been very helpful. I had another solution running on my site, but it began working very strangely due to Twitter’s crossdomain restrictions. For now, this solution seems to be working just dandy.

I converted it into a working FP9 version (using Arrays, like you suggested), and I also extended it a bit to add a couple more values to the tweet object (publish date, and status URL).

I noticed one other issue. You mentioned “chopped” as a return formatting type. But it appears that it’s named “incognito” instead of “chopped”. Small issue, but it might confuse some peeps out there…

Anyways like I said, THANK YOU for getting me rolling in the right direction.

Here’s what the loop looks like now:

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for each (var xTweet:XML in txml..item) {
var sDate : String = xTweet.pubDate.text().toString();
var sLink : String = xTweet.link.text().toString();
var sTweet : String = xTweet.description.text().toString();
var tweet : Object = {};
tweet.raw = sTweet;
tweet.incognito = sTweet.substr(sTweet.indexOf(":") + 2);
tweet.linked = urlvalidator.tag(sTweet);
tweet.choppedAndLinked = urlvalidator.tag(sTweet.substr(sTweet.indexOf(":") + 2));
tweet.pubDate = sDate;
tweet.statusLink = sLink;

if(sTweet.indexOf("@") > -1)
tweet.friendly = true;
else
tweet.friendly = false;

if(!ignoreReplies)
tweets.push(tweet);
else if (ignoreReplies && !tweet.friendly)
tweets.push(tweet);
}

By: Martin

Martin — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 20:24:26 +0000

Oh why not. Here's a simple example that'll cycle through tweets in a TextField on stage when you click.