If you include the parameter include_entities=1 in your request we will
return an extra object in the response telling you where the hashtags,
mentions and URLs are in the Tweet.
You can learn more about Tweet Entities on our developer resources site:
http://dev.twitter.com/pages/tweet_entities
Best,
@themattharris
Developer Advocate, Twitter
http://twitter.com/themattharris
On Wed, Feb 9, 2011 at 10:21 AM, craigpierce <craigpie...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hey Leon -
>
> There's code at the link below that has worked for me in the past. I
> have since re-written it in JavaScript (using the same regular
> expressions) as I'm now 'building' tweets for display on the client
> side - but the expressions still work even in JS....
>
> http://davidwalsh.name/linkify-twitter-feed
>
> That code will show you how to create links from 1) Links, 2) Screen
> Names and 3) Hashtags
>
> I, personally, removed the following from the screen name and hashtag
> expressions: (^|\s)
>
> ...which means match the beginning of the line or a space - however, I
> once saw a tweet that had this: .@screenname
>
> ...notice the period before the "@"? That's neither the beginning of
> the line nor a space, and the code as-is didn't linkify it, even
> though viewing the same tweet on twitter.com showed it as a link.
> Removing the (^|\s) allowed it to be linkified, and you're not often
> going to see an "@" or an "#" in a tweet that isn't a screen name or a
> hashtag, so I think it's a fairly safe bet to take. Though, if anyone
> ever puts, say, an email address in a tweet, it'll treat it as a
> screen name if you don't have the (^|\s) in there...
>
> Hope that helps!
>
> On Feb 8, 11:26 pm, "Leon Meijer" <l...@lmeijer.nl> wrote:
> > Hello all,
> >
> > Just gave it a quick google but no results so far, i'm looking for a PHP
> regular expression / script that scans a tweet for @ username, I'm not so
> good at regular expressions so does someone have a sample code that scans
> for @mentions and creates a URL to the users profile (which in my case will
> behttp://beta.TheNerdsOnline.nl/users/usernamewhere username is the
> Twitter screen_name).
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > Leon
>
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