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Javascript functions to filter out replies from Twitter API JSON
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| // This filters out replies (that Twitter understands are replies) | |
| function has_in_reply_to_status_id(tweet) { | |
| if (tweet.in_reply_to_status_id === null) return false; | |
| else return true; | |
| } | |
| // This filters out tweets that start with a mention, which are almost always replies | |
| function is_user_mention_at_start(tweet) { | |
| if (tweet.entities.user_mentions.length > 0) { | |
| if (tweet.entities.user_mentions[0].indices[0] === 0) return true; | |
| } | |
| } |
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This would be used with a feed from the Twitter API, something like this URL: http://api.twitter.com/1/statuses/user_timeline.json?screen_name=hulbert&count=20&callback=twitterCallback&include_entities=1&include_rts=0
I'm using it with a modified version of Twitter's old Blogger Javascript, original found here: http://twitter.com/javascripts/blogger.js