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jquery.ui.twitter.rss

Twitter RSS jQuery Plugin

The Twitter RSS jQuery plugin makes it easy to retrieve RSS information from Twitter and display it on a page using all client side code.  The plugin makes a request to Twitter by way of JSONP, by default applies a template to the retrieved content, then injects the content into the context element.

Download The Plugin

Download Plugin Version 1.0

Getting Started

  1. Make sure you have jQuery installed and working.
  2. Download the plugin and place it in your scripts directory.
  3. Include the plugin script and start using it.
  4. See examples below.
<script language="javascript" type="text/javascript" src="script/jquery.ui.twitter.rss.js"></script>

Examples

Example 1

Populate an element with 5 of a user’s tweets.

<div id="myUserTweets" />
$(function(){
    $("#myUserTweets").twitterRss({username: "thegodlikemouse", limit: 5});
});

Example 2

Populate all elements of a specific class with the user’s tweets by tag parameters.

<div class="userTweets" twitter-username="godlikemouse" twitter-limit="5" />
$(function(){
    $(".userTweets").twitterRss();
});

API Options

Option Attribute Equivalent Description
username twitter-username (Required) The Twitter username from which to pull the tweets.
template twitter-template The template string which will be used to transform each entity. Default is $.fn.twitterRss.defaultTemplate.
context n/a – uses current $this The content target or content element to be populated. Default is null.
offset twitter-offset The zero based starting offset to be used when retrieving tweets. Default is 0.
limit twitter-limit The maximum count or limit of tweets to retrieve. Default is 25.
url twitter-url The url used to retrieve tweets. Default is http://api.twitter.com/1/statuses/user_timeline.json.
callback n/a The callback function to be use as an override when retrieving tweets. Default is null, internal template engine is used.
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