Twittertex formats a Map containing the JSON structure of a Tweet, and renders it to HTML for display.
It uses the tweet’s entities property to link to the appropriate URLs for mentions, hashtags, links and media.
tweet_json = Jason.decode!("""
{
"created_at": "Wed Jun 06 20:07:10 +0000 2012",
"id": 210462857140252672,
"id_str": "210462857140252672",
"text": "Along with our new #Twitterbird, we've also updated our Display Guidelines: https://t.co/Ed4omjYs ^JC",
"entities": {
"hashtags": [{ "text": "Twitterbird", "indices": [19, 31] }],
"symbols": [],
"user_mentions": [],
"urls": [
{
"url": "https://t.co/Ed4omjYs",
"expanded_url": "https://dev.twitter.com/terms/display-guidelines",
"display_url": "dev.twitter.com/terms/display-\u2026",
"indices": [76, 97]
}
]
},
"truncated": false,
"source": "\u003ca href=\"http://twitter.com\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003eTwitter Web Client\u003c/a\u003e",
"in_reply_to_status_id": null,
"in_reply_to_status_id_str": null,
"in_reply_to_user_id": null,
"in_reply_to_user_id_str": null,
"in_reply_to_screen_name": null,
"user": {
"id": 6253282,
"id_str": "6253282",
"name": "Twitter API",
"screen_name": "twitterapi",
"location": "San Francisco, CA",
"description": "The Real Twitter API. I tweet about API changes, service issues and happily answer questions about Twitter and our API. Don't get an answer? It's on my website.",
"url": "http://t.co/78pYTvWfJd",
"entities": {
"url": {
"urls": [
{
"url": "http://t.co/78pYTvWfJd",
"expanded_url": "http://dev.twitter.com",
"display_url": "dev.twitter.com",
"indices": [0, 22]
}
]
},
"description": { "urls": [] }
},
"protected": false,
"followers_count": 5779031,
"friends_count": 47,
"listed_count": 13048,
"created_at": "Wed May 23 06:01:13 +0000 2007",
"favourites_count": 27,
"utc_offset": -25200,
"time_zone": "Pacific Time (US & Canada)",
"geo_enabled": true,
"verified": true,
"statuses_count": 3561,
"lang": "en",
"contributors_enabled": false,
"is_translator": false,
"is_translation_enabled": false,
"profile_background_color": "C0DEED",
"profile_background_image_url": "http://pbs.twimg.com/profile_background_images/656927849/miyt9dpjz77sc0w3d4vj.png",
"profile_background_image_url_https": "https://pbs.twimg.com/profile_background_images/656927849/miyt9dpjz77sc0w3d4vj.png",
"profile_background_tile": true,
"profile_image_url": "http://pbs.twimg.com/profile_images/2284174872/7df3h38zabcvjylnyfe3_normal.png",
"profile_image_url_https": "https://pbs.twimg.com/profile_images/2284174872/7df3h38zabcvjylnyfe3_normal.png",
"profile_banner_url": "https://pbs.twimg.com/profile_banners/6253282/1431474710",
"profile_link_color": "0084B4",
"profile_sidebar_border_color": "C0DEED",
"profile_sidebar_fill_color": "DDEEF6",
"profile_text_color": "333333",
"profile_use_background_image": true,
"has_extended_profile": false,
"default_profile": false,
"default_profile_image": false,
"following": false,
"follow_request_sent": false,
"notifications": false
},
"geo": null,
"coordinates": null,
"place": null,
"contributors": null,
"is_quote_status": false,
"retweet_count": 133,
"favorite_count": 68,
"favorited": false,
"retweeted": false,
"possibly_sensitive": false,
"possibly_sensitive_appealable": false,
"lang": "en"
}
""")
Twittertex.format_tweet(tweet_json)
# "Along with our new <a href=\"https://twitter.com/hashtag/Twitterbird\">#Twitterbird</a>, we've also updated our Display Guidelines: <a href=\"https://dev.twitter.com/terms/display-guidelines\">dev.twitter.com/terms/display-…</a> ^JC"Add twittertex to your list of dependencies in mix.exs:
def deps do
[
{:twittertex, "~> 0.3.0"}
]
end