Tweet.ie sidebar for Firefox.

Hobbes · 11-11-2008 5:22pm #1

I am thinking of setting up a tweet sidebar for firefox (as the title says).

I wanted to get a feel for who are interested. Also if any suggestions.

Here is what I have so far as a spec.

1. Security end of it will be handled by the tweet.ie site (so you log into that site and away you go). Plugin won't know and assumes your logged in.

2. Information required for the card would be.

link to tweet.
user
avatar
comment
time

Anything else? Not sure if the avatar is going to be an issue. Think firefox will handle the caching so not pulling too much data.

3. What is a reasonable refresh time? This would have to be set server side with a minimum speed at client side.

After that anything else?

aidan_walsh · 11-11-2008 5:26pm

Cool project. Does tweet.ie support the official Laconi.ca API?

Hobbes · 11-11-2008 5:28pm

Not sure but it would be easier for me if I just got JSON output similar to what we get for the PM plugin.

Snickit · 11-11-2008 5:33pm

Anyway to make it colourful and bubbly? :pac:
Please.

cHaTbOx · 11-11-2008 5:34pm

Hobbes wrote: »

Not sure but it would be easier for me if I just got JSON output similar to what we get for the PM plugin.

I think it does run on Official laconi.ca

tweet.ie is a microblogging service brought to you by boards.ie Ltd.. It runs the Laconica microblogging software, version 0.4.1, available under the GNU Affero General Public License

oeb · 11-11-2008 5:46pm

Just allow the person to set their own refresh time

Hobbes · 11-11-2008 5:48pm

oeb wrote: »

Just allow the person to set their own refresh time

PM plugin we allow the user to set it to 5 mins or higher checking. It is locked at 5 mins but you can hack but the server can just set it back again on the next update.

With tweets data is needed faster but have to take into account the amount of data being pulled. Cults the brainy bit behind that tbh.

oeb · 11-11-2008 5:58pm

Hobbes wrote: »

PM plugin we allow the user to set it to 5 mins or higher checking. It is locked at 5 mins but you can hack but the server can just set it back again on the next update.

With tweets data is needed faster but have to take into account the amount of data being pulled. Cults the brainy bit behind that tbh.

The easy way of doing it would be if you could just check the last modified date.

If this is not feasable on the rss feed, I can't imagine it being too difficult to write a very small script that just gets the timestamp of the last post (that would run on tweet.ie), check this first, if that is not > the last time the refresh was done, don't refresh. This way you are checking a page a couple of kb large, that runs a single sql query, as opposed to the main page or rss feed which is larger and runs more queries.

EDIT : earlier I was thinking about throwing together a python script to act as an interface for tweet. If you are doing this I will leave it alone though.

Tweet.ie sidebar for Firefox.

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