Extension:TwitterFeed

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TwitterFeed Release status: beta
Implementation	Tag
Description	Adds <twitterfeed> tag for display tweets.
Author(s)	Baptiste 'BapNesS' Carlier
Last version	1.1
MediaWiki	1.6.x, 1.8.x, 1.9.x, 1.15.x
License	The MIT License
Download	TwitterFeed.php
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The TwitterFeed Extension is a MediaWiki extension which provides a means for display the last Twitter tweets into wiki articles.

Project Homepage

TwitterFeed Tutorial - Nesscorp.fr

Source Code

TwitterFeed SourceForge

Licensing

TwitterFeed is released under The MIT License.

Installation

1. Download TwitterFeed, and be sure to rename the downloaded file to TwitterFeed.php.
2. Drop this script in $IP/extensions

   Note: $IP is your MediaWiki install dir.

3. Enable the extension by adding this line to your LocalSettings.php:

   require_once("$IP/extensions/TwitterFeed.php");
   

4. Make sure that these php5 variables are activated:

allow_url_include = On
allow_url_fopen = On

Usage

Once installed, you may display tweets to any article.

To do so, simply add this text to the body of your page where you'd like the tweets to appear:

<twitterfeed id="sessions-userid"></twitterfeed>

or

<twitterfeed nb="nb-of-tweets" id="sessions-userid"></twitterfeed>

Where "id" is the session user id and "nb-of-tweets" the max number of appearing tweets. To get it :

Old Twitter:

1. Go to the Twitter page:

   Example: http://twitter.com/winkinpark

2. Copy the RSS Feed url:

   Example: http://twitter.com/statuses/user_timeline/76944488.rss

3. And finally get the ID :

   Example: 76944488

New Twitter:

1. Go to the Twitter page

   Example: http://twitter.com/winkinpark

2. View Source (Ctrl+U in FF and Chrome) and search for (Ctrl+F) ".rss"
3. This should match a URL like: http://twitter.com/favorites/123456789.rss
4. 123456789 is your ID.

That's it!

Updates

v1.1 - 2010/09/18

• Add links in the content.

Developer Notes

Once the extension is install, you can change the last lignes of the for-loop of the function renderTwitterFeed() in TwitterFeed.php. It must be usefull to customize the tweets display.

Wikis Using this Extension

• GT5 Tuning Wiki
• Amical Viquipèdia

See Also

• Twitter, Twitter Search and Twitter List widgets on MediaWikiWidgets.org site, they use Widgets extension.