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[nygorn]

Hello.
I'm building a blog, and want to integrate "latest twitter post" in it.
Only problem is that every tutorial & script I find is in PHP (that works).
I've found a buch of JavaScript that doesn't work.

I'm hosting my blog on a swedish blog site that allows you to change the HTML files, but only save them in HTML.

So I need a script that will allow me to use it in HTML.

Anyone out there have an idea?

I know that Twitter has their own widget, but that doesn't allow me to ONLY get the text, name and time.
It makes me have their apparence on it that is locked to 250x500 with some background color and a bunch of images that I dont want

[Faken]

So the blog host doesn't allow you to use PHP of Javascript? Have you tried contacting the blog service provider to ask them for suggestions?

[Hayden]

Twitter cut off basic authentication for getting status updates. You'd have to setup an application with an API and authenticate with your Twitter feed with OAuth.

http://dev.twitter.com/pages/auth


Another option is to use a JSONP request which does not require authentication. That's how I did it over at my site, http://fortytwo.me.

var tweetJSONP = new Request.JSONP({
		url: 'http://twitter.com/statuses/user_timeline/214119863.json',
		data: {
			count: '2'
		},
		onComplete: function(data){
			// the request was completed.
			var dl = new Element('dl');
			data.each(function(e){
				new Element('dd',{'html':e.text}).inject(dl);
			});
			$('twitter').adopt(dl);
		}.bind(this)
	}).send();

FYI, that's using Mootools, I don't care for JQuery all that much but it wouldn't be much different.

[nygorn]

The host creates a pre-made website, that i can edit in a editor there, in HTML files.
I can use everything as long it's working in an HTML file.

Sorry hayden, i've never used jQuery or Motools so I've no idea how that script works
Care to build a standalone for me?

[chewx]

<script src="http://twitterjs.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/src/twitter.min.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" charset="utf-8">
getTwitters('tweet', { 
  id: 'name of twitter here', 
  count: 1, 
  enableLinks: true, 
  ignoreReplies: true, 
  clearContents: true,
  template: '"%text%" <a href="http://twitter.com/%user_screen_name%/statuses/%id%/">%time%</a>'
});
</script>

Very simple jquery.