NodeBB Twitter / X embeds

[phenomlab]

I’ve had limited success with the plugin nodebb-plugin-twitter and its various forks in the sense that the embeds failed to load - here’s an example of that exact problem (never resolved from what I can see)

https://github.com/NodeBB-Community/nodebb-plugin-twitter/issues/2

I decided to write my custom JS which can be found here

https://github.com/phenomlab/nodebb-twitter-embeds

This not only works in the same way as the NodeBB plugin, but will also render client-side so does not pile up in terms of resources on your server In addition, the available arguments for the embeds are below

https://developer.x.com/en/docs/twitter-for-websites/embedded-tweets/guides/embedded-tweet-parameter-reference

Here’s a real-life example

https://x.com/phenomlab/status/1810648261369233607

[OT]

Why not create your own plugin instead?

[phenomlab]

@OT I probably will at some point. This was really for quickness to assist a Sudonix user.

[OT]

This does work well. One behavior is that sometimes it will show the link embeded multiple times, then it clears back to singular when you refresh the page.

[phenomlab]

@OT Yes, I noticed the same thing and will fix that in due course. I also looked at creating a plugin, which I will also address when I have time.

[DownPW]

As usual : very good work my friends
I’m going on vacation for a week so I’ll try this later

[DownPW]

Tested.
It seem embed is on a blockquote.
I play with this class blockquote.content.twitter-tweet for better résult (transparency of blockquote)

I notice it seems the beginning of URL appears (https://)

Result int the screenshot :

cya

[phenomlab]

@DownPW strange. I’m not able to replicate these specific issues. Can you provide me with the url of the tweet in a PM so I can test?

Thanks

[cagatay]

great work thank you Mark.

[OT]

This is how it shows up for us. Just have the random dupes of the same tweet. Of course, users are complaining of seeing a tweet repeat three times, but they quickly forgot that a tweet was just showing the X.com using Iframely or any other plugin.

[phenomlab]

@OT can you post the actual tweet url ?

[JAC]

I’ve had it where a tweet will show twice but once the page has been refreshed it’ll show the one again.

[phenomlab]

Updated code to address the duplicate tweet issue

https://github.com/phenomlab/nodebb-twitter-embeds/blob/main/embeds.js

[Madchatthew]

@phenomlab That is awesome, great job!