A walk through of the features of TwitterLib.js - a library that helps standardise all the Twitter API calls and all the data coming back from Twitter, and includes a collection of utility methods to speed development up.

1. TwitterLib.js

2. What is it?

3. Why?

4. http://github.com/remy/twitterlib

5. Examples

9. Features

10. Features
•Consistent interface & data
structure
•Support for custom APIs
•Automatic paging
•Included utilities:
•ify, render, time

11. API

12. timeline status
favs search
list

14. <script src="twitterlib.js"></script>

15. <script src="twitterlib.js"></script>
<script>
var tweets = document.getElementById('tweets');
twitterlib.timeline('rem', function (data) {
});
</script>

16. <script src="twitterlib.js"></script>
<script>
var tweets = document.getElementById('tweets');
twitterlib.timeline('rem', function (data) {
var html = [];
for (var i = 0; i < data.length; i++) {
html.push(data[i].text);
}
});
</script>

17. <script src="twitterlib.js"></script>
<script>
var tweets = document.getElementById('tweets');
twitterlib.timeline('rem', function (data) {
var html = [];
for (var i = 0; i < data.length; i++) {
html.push(twitterlib.render(data[i]));
}
});
</script>

18. <script src="twitterlib.js"></script>
<script>
var tweets = document.getElementById('tweets');
twitterlib.timeline('rem', function (data) {
var html = [];
for (var i = 0; i < data.length; i++) {
html.push(twitterlib.render(data[i]));
}
tweets.innerHTML = html.join('');
});
</script>

19. <script src="twitterlib.js"></script>
<script>
var tweets = document.getElementById('tweets');
twitterlib.status('rem', function (data) {
var html = [];
for (var i = 0; i < data.length; i++) {
html.push(twitterlib.render(data[i]));
}
tweets.innerHTML = html.join('');
});
</script>

20. <script src="twitterlib.js"></script>
<script>
var tweets = document.getElementById('tweets');
twitterlib.favs('rem', function (data) {
var html = [];
for (var i = 0; i < data.length; i++) {
html.push(twitterlib.render(data[i]));
}
tweets.innerHTML = html.join('');
});
</script>

21. <script src="twitterlib.js"></script>
<script>
var tweets = document.getElementById('tweets');
twitterlib.list('rem/local', function (data) {
var html = [];
for (var i = 0; i < data.length; i++) {
html.push(twitterlib.render(data[i]));
}
tweets.innerHTML = html.join('');
});
</script>

22. <script src="twitterlib.js"></script>
<script>
var tweets = document.getElementById('tweets');
twitterlib.search('@rem', function (data) {
var html = [];
for (var i = 0; i < data.length; i++) {
html.push(twitterlib.render(data[i]));
}
tweets.innerHTML = html.join('');
});
</script>

23. Options

24. Options
twitterlib.timeline('rem', fn);
twitterlib.timeline('rem', {/*options*/}, fn);

25. Options
• page: 1
• limit: 200
• since_id: 1
• filter: 'foo'

26. Options
twitterlib.timeline(
'rem',
{
since_id: 123,
filter: 'foo'
},
fn
);

27. Filter

28. Filter
foo

29. Filter
foo
foo bar (foo and bar)

30. Filter
foo
foo bar (foo and bar)
foo OR bar

31. Filter
foo
foo bar (foo and bar)
foo OR bar
"foo bar" (atomic string)

32. Filter
foo
foo bar (foo and bar)
foo OR bar
"foo bar" (atomic string)
foo -bar (foo, not bar)

33. Filter
foo
foo bar (foo and bar)
foo OR bar
"foo bar" (atomic string)
foo -bar (foo, not bar)
from:rem foo

34. Filter
foo
foo bar (foo and bar)
foo OR bar
"foo bar" (atomic string)
foo -bar (foo, not bar)
from:rem foo
to:rem foo

35. Utilities

36. Utilities
.custom(name, url)

37. Utilities
twitterlib.custom('dm',
'/tweets?page=%page%&type=dm');
twitterlib.dm(callback);

38. Utilities
.next()

39. Utilities
var html = [];
twitterlib.timeline('rem', {limit: 5}, function(tweets){
for (var i = 0; i < tweets.length; i++) {
html.push(this.render(tweets[i]));
}
})

40. Utilities
var html = [];
twitterlib.timeline('rem', {limit: 5}, function(tweets){
for (var i = 0; i < tweets.length; i++) {
html.push(this.render(tweets[i]));
}
}).next();

41. Utilities
.render(tweet)

42. Utilities
.ify.clean(text)

43. Utilities
List of Twitter developers in the @WiredUK photo: @nuxnix/uk-
twitterati #devnest: http://www.wired.co.uk/wired-magazine/
archive/2009/12/start/wired%27s-guide-to-the-uk-twitterati.aspx
List of Twitter developers in the @WiredUK
photo: @nuxnix/uk-twitterati #devnest:
http://www.wired.co.uk/w...

44. Utilities
.time.relative(t)

45. Utilities
Fri Jan 08 15:44:49 +0000 2010
20 minutes ago

46. Photos by Balakov
Enjoy.
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