jimtattersall / craft-tweetlinker

craft cms plugin to expand links in tweets

Craft Twig filter: expand links in tweets

Craft twig filter to expand urls, hashtags, user mentions in tweets. Works with Twitter Plugin

Installation

• Unzip file
• Place the 'tweetlinker' folder into your craft/plugins directory
• Install plugin in the Craft Control Panel under Settings > Plugins
• Install Twitter Plugin

Usage

• Fetch tweet with craft.twitter.get
• {{tweet|tweetLink}} is the tweet with urls etc. expanded
• {{...|raw}} so the link html is not escaped

Example

{% set tweets = craft.twitter.get('statuses/user_timeline.json?screen_name=marionnewlevant&count=5') %}
{% for tweet in tweets %}
  {{tweet|tweetLink|raw}}
{% endfor %}

Features

• Use as filter tweet|tweetLink
• Use as function tweetLink(tweet)
• filter/function argument newWindow (default false): include target="_blank" to open urls in new window?
• filter/function argument title (default false): include title attribute in url?