User:Yaya1711/common.js

// Declare variables to hold twitter API url and user name var twitter_api_url = 'http://search.twitter.com/search.json'; var keyword = 'iphone5'; var tweet_limit = 3;

// Enable caching $.ajaxSetup({ cache: true });

/* The returned JSON object will have a property called "results" where we find a list of the tweets matching our request query */

$.getJSON(		twitter_api_url + '?callback=?&rpp=' + tweet_limit + '&q=%23' + keyword,		/* -- grabs 3 latest tweets where searched for #keyword (#hashtag) */

//twitter_api_url + '?callback=?&rpp=' + tweet_limit + '&q=%40' + keyword, /* -- grabs 3 latest tweets where searched for @keyword (@username) */

//twitter_api_url + '?callback=?&rpp=' + tweet_limit + '&q=' + keyword, /* -- grabs 3 latest tweets where searched for raw keyword (keyword) - Might get some foreign tweets this way */

function(data){ $.each(data.results, function(i, tweet){	   	// Uncomment line below to show tweet data in Fire Bug console	    	// Very helpful to find out what is available in the tweet objects	    	//console.log(tweet);

// Before we continue we check that we got data if(tweet.text !== undefined){

// Calculate how many hours ago was the tweet posted var date_tweet	=	new Date(tweet.created_at); var date_now	=	new Date; var date_diff	=	date_now - date_tweet; var hours		=	Math.round(date_diff/(1000*60*60)); var user_url	=	''+'@'+ keyword+'<\/a>'; var text_string =	tweet.text;

var username_text_string	=	text_string.replace('@'+keyword, ' @'+keyword+'<\/span>'); // *Use one of these variables below var hash_text_string		=	text_string.replace('#'+keyword, ' #'+keyword+'<\/span>'); // *Use one of these variables below var user_avatar				=	tweet.profile_image_url; var user_name				=	tweet.from_user_name;

// Build the html string for the current tweet var tweet_html	=	' '; tweet_html		+=	''; tweet_html		+=	' '; tweet_html		+=	''; tweet_html		+=	hash_text_string + '<\/a> '; // *Replace the variable here based on how you're searching tweet_html		+=	' hours ago<\/span><\/div><\/div>'; /*			   	You can grab other stuff from the Object, like these: created_at: from_user: from_user_id: from_user_id_str: from_user_name: geo: id: id_str: iso_language_code: profile_image_url: profile_image_url_https: source: text: to_user: to_user_id: to_user_id_str: to_user_name: More on that here: https://dev.twitter.com/docs/using-search */

// Append html string to tweet_container div $('#tweets').append(tweet_html); }			});		}	);