Extension:ShoogleTweet

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ShoogleTweet Release status: stable
Implementation	Tag, Hook
Description	Provides a high availability Twitter feed
Author(s)	Christopher Schirner (Schinkentalk)
Latest version	1.0
MediaWiki	1.6.x, 1.8.x, 1.9.x, 1.15+
Database changes	No
License	MIT
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The ShoogleTweet extension is a MediaWiki extension which provides the last N tweets of a given screen name on your desired wikipedia page. It also caches the results in an apc-cache if it exist.

Source Code

ShoogleTweet GitHub

Licensing

ShoogleTweet is released under The MIT License.

Installation

Step 1 - Retrieving oAuth Access

1. Navigate to the Twitter "My Applications" page and create a new application
2. After creating the application the 'Consumer Key' and 'Consumer Secret' will be provided. You'll need that later

Step 2 - Installing the Extension

1. Navigate to the $IP/extensions directory of your mediawiki installation
2. git clone https://github.com/schinken/mediawiki-shoogletweet
3. cd mediawiki-shoogletweet/
4. git submodule init
5. git submodule update

1. Enable the extension by adding this line to your LocalSettings.php:

   require_once("$IP/extensions/mediawiki-shoogletweet/ShoogleTweet.php");
   

   $wgShoogleTweetConsumerKey = '#YOUR_CONSUMER_KEY#';
   

   $wgShoogleTweetConsumerKeySecret = '#YOUR_CONSUMER_KEY_SECRET#';
   

Usage

Once installed, you may display tweets to any given screen_name!

Just add

 <ShoogleTweet limit="6">b4ckspace</ShoogleTweet>
 

to your desired wiki page

The output can be styled with this piece of CSS:

 #tw-list {
     margin:0;
     padding: 0;
 }
 #tw-list li{
     list-style:none;
     margin-bottom: 2px;
     padding: 4px;
 }
 #tw-list li.even{
     background-color:#f8f8f8;
 }

Developer Notes

If there are any problems, feel free to contact me through my my hackerspace profile page.

Wikis Using this Extension

• Hackerspace Bamberg