Comments on: Format Twitter ‘created_at’ Date with Javascript

By: loige

loige — Thu, 13 May 2010 15:05:59 +0000

@BRENEN
Your last submission does not seems to work on safari for windows :S

By: Brenen

Brenen — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 22:10:47 +0000

oops..
function parseTwitterDate(text) {
var newtext = text.replace(/(\+\S+) (.*)/, ‘$2 $1′)
var date = new Date(Date.parse(newtext)).toLocaleDateString();
var time = new Date(Date.parse(newtext)).toLocaleTimeString();
return date +’ • ‘ + time;
}

By: Brenen

Brenen — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 22:01:29 +0000

This does not work at all.. It returns things like ‘Thursday, J • anuar PM’ and ‘NaN • Na PM’ in IE. These are just from your Recent Twitter side bar thing. The problem is that toLocaleString makes it into full month and day names. The IE problem is because twitter’s format isn’t in standard javascript format. I made a little thing just to make it function, if you want to take the seconds off and such, go ahead.

function parseTwitterDate(text) {
var newtext = text.replace(/(\+\S+) (.*)/, ‘$2 $1′)
var date = new Date(Date.parse(text)).toLocaleDateString();
var time = new Date(Date.parse(text)).toLocaleTimeString();
return date +’ • ‘ + time;
}

returns Sunday, January 31, 2010 • 4:01:53 PM

By: Stephen Braitsch

Stephen Braitsch — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 23:00:23 +0000

Then all you want is the ‘text’ property of the ’status’ node.
For example look here:
http://twitter.com/statuses/user_timeline/braitsch.xml?count=3
statuses -> status -> text
or something like this in actionscript.
var list:XMLList = statuses.status;
var tweet:String = list[0].text;
will return the text of the first tweet in the list.

By: Annie

Annie — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 22:42:39 +0000

What if you want to get rid of the created date completely? I am creating a twitter feed for my website and would like to just show the text of my tweet and nothing else.

Thanks!

By: Stephen Braitsch

Stephen Braitsch — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 20:28:21 +0000

You don’t. If you wanted to parse a Twitter feed with AS3 you’d request the feed from Flash and write a separate but similar function to handle the result. I’d probably use a regular expression to parse the returned XML date string since the AS3 date object lacks the JS date methods shown in the example above.

By: mike

mike — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 20:15:10 +0000

how do you call and use this from as3?