JQuery: Novice to Ninja by Earle Castledine; Craig Sharkie

Author:Earle Castledine; Craig Sharkie
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Tags: Web, JavaScript, Programming Languages, Computers, Programming, General, Site Design, Ajax (Web site development technology), Design, Web sites, JavaScript (Computer program language), Web Programming
ISBN: 9780980576856
Publisher: SitePoint
Published: 2010-02-28T01:26:54.565265+00:00

Where did that URL come from? We found it by reading the documentation on the site’s API help page. Every site will have different conventions and data formats, so it’s important to spend some time with the API docs!

A Client-side Twitter Searcher

But why are we wasting time on Delicious? We have a Twitter stream to incorporate, and we need to do it quick smart. Following the API link from the Twitter home page will lead us to the information we need to get this show on the road. We’ll use the search URL to return the JSON data for recent public tweets about celebrities:

chapter_06/06_twitter_search/script.js (excerpt)

var searchTerm = "celebs";

var baseUrl = "http://search.twitter.com/search.json?q=";

$.getJSON(baseUrl + searchTerm + "&callback=?", function(data) {

$.each(data.results, function() {

$('<div></div>')

.hide()

.append('<img src="' + this.profile_image_url + '" />')

.append('<span><a href="http://www.twitter.com/'

+ this.from_user + '">' + this.from_user

+ '</a>&nbsp;' + this.text + '</span>')

.appendTo('#tweets')

.fadeIn();

});

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