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TweetPaste API released 24 Jun 2009
You can now use TweetPaste from your own applications by making a simple HTTP call to the following address:
http://tweetpaste.thingamaweb.com/api/gethtml/
and passing in the following arguments:
| id | Required | The ID of the tweet, as obtained by going to http://twitter.com, clicking the timestamp of the tweet and looking for the string of numbers at the end of the URL |
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| iframe_width | Optional | The width (in pixels) of the tweet iFrame (default is 500) |
| iframe_height | Optional | The height (in pixels) of the tweet iFrame (default is 200). Note that the box will scale vertically to fit the size of the tweet (via JavaScript), so this setting isn’t always necessary |
| show_background | Optional: 1 or 0 | Show the twitterer’s background colour (default is 1) |
| include_padding | Optional: 1 or 0 | Useful if you’ve set show_background to 0; removes the padding around the tweet iFrame (default is 1) |
| show_username | Optional: 1 or 0 | Show the twitterer’s username and avatar (default is 1) |
| show_source | Optional: 1 or 0 | Show the source of the tweet: ie “via Web” (default is 1) |
When you call the function, you’ll receive an HTTP response which contains just the HTML code you need to render in your application. If an error is caused, you should receive a response beginning with “ERROR: ”.
It’s in its absolute infancy, so if you experience any problems please let me know via the comments.
Comments
Carolyn
September 2nd, 2009 at 12:23 pm (#)
Why does it look so boring when it’s your own tweet?
Mark Steadman
September 2nd, 2009 at 1:25 pm (#)
You’ve lost me there
TweetPaste doesn’t know whose tweet is which, so there’s no difference
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