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Pawan Nogariya
Pawan Nogariya

Reputation: 8980

Any way to get widget-id for twitter widget from Twitter url?

Is there any way to find twitter widget id from twitter url?

User will be putting there twitter urls and I have to create widget for them like this

<a class="twitter-timeline" href="https://twitter.com/twitterapi" data-widget-id="YOUR-WIDGET-ID-HERE">Tweets by @twitterapi</a>

<script>!function(d,s,id){var js,fjs=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];if(!d.getElementById(id)){js=d.createElement(s);js.id=id;js.src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js";fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js,fjs);}}(document,"script","twitter-wjs");</script>

But to generate this I need to have widget id! data-widget-id="YOUR-WIDGET-ID-HERE"

Upvotes: 2

Views: 9751

Answers (2)

Cynthia Fridsma
Cynthia Fridsma

Reputation: 75

Indeed, there's no way to automatically find the widget id, but you can create a function in PHP to embed twitter on your website.

I created a simple plug-in for an open-source project:

---// twitter_plugin.php //-----

<?php    
function twitter_page ($search){

    # first we remove unwanted tags, for 
    # security reasons only and remove unwanted space.

    if($search ==""){
        exit;
    } else {
        //echo "<h2>" . $search . "</h2><br>";

        # wikipedia URL
        $url = "https://mobile.twitter.com/" . $search;

        # initialize curl
        $ch = curl_init();

        # Get the user agent of the visitor...

        $user_agent = "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1";
        $_referer ="http://www.google.com"; 

        curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
        curl_setopt($ch,CURLOPT_USERAGENT,$user_agent);
        curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, 0);
        curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_AUTOREFERER, 1);
        curl_setopt($ch,CURLOPT_REFERER,$_referer); 
        curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, false);
        curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);



        $definition = curl_exec($ch);

        $cellphone = "You are on Twitter Mobile because you are using an old version of Internet Explorer. Learn more";
        $definition = str_replace($cellphone, "More information about Twitter ", $definition);
        $definition = str_replace('href="', ' target="_blank" href="', $definition);
        $definition = str_replace('action="', 'target="_blank" action="https://mobile.twitter.com/', $definition);
        $definition = str_replace("href='", " target='_blank' href='", $definition);
        $definition = str_replace('https://mobile.twitter.com/', 'https://twitter.com/', $definition);
        $definition = str_replace('href="/', 'href="https://twitter.com/', $definition);
        $definition = str_replace('class="tweet-text"', 'class="tweet-text" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);"', $definition);



        $needle = '<div class="w-mediaonebox">';
        $pos = strpos ($definition, $needle);
        $definition=substr($definition,$pos, strlen($definition));



        echo "<div class=\"w-mediaonebox\">\n" . $definition; 


        curl_close($ch);
        echo "</div>";

    } 
}



if(isset($twitter)){

    twitter_page($twitter); 

}

----// end of php script //----

And this is how you can use the plug-in:

<div style="height:880px; width:550px; overflow:auto; overflow-style:marquee-line;">
<?php
$twitter = 'nova_says';
include_once('include/twitter_plugin.php');
?>
</div>

A Demo of this plug-in can be found on: http://www.heathernova.us/index-page-405-category-405.html

Upvotes: 0

Kees C. Bakker
Kees C. Bakker

Reputation: 33421

Widgets can be created by logging into Twitter and:

  1. Go to: https://twitter.com/settings/widgets
  2. Press the 'Create new' button
  3. Fill in the settings
  4. Hit the 'Create widget' button

You widget ID will be visible in the code text box:

Screencast

Upvotes: 4

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