A simple Twitter search results counter in JS

samuelbetio · Jul 31, 2018 · 5e1868a · 5e1868a
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+# Tweet Count
+
+### Get the number of tweets for any search.
+
+Useful for hashtag trending.
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+<html>
+  <head>
+    <title>Total tweets</title>
+    <style type="text/css">
+    /*
+    input {
+      float: left;
+      clear: both;
+    }
+    */
+    </style>
+    <script src="http://code.jquery.com/jquery-latest.js"></script>
+    <script type="text/javascript">
+
+var getPage = new RegExp( /page=([^&]+)/ );
+var url = "http://search.twitter.com/search.json?q=";
+var search, page, pageTotal, tweets, loading;
+var beforeCounter = "<b>";
+var afterCounter = "</b>";
+var totalTweets = 0;
+
+function getTweets(search, page, pageTotal) {
+  $.getJSON( url + search + '&page=' + page + '&callback=?',
+    function(data) {
+      if( data.results.length != 0 && page != pageTotal ) {
+        $('#pagesDone span').html(page);
+        getData(data);
+      }
+      else {
+        showTotal();
+      }
+    }
+  );
+}
+
+function showTotal() {
+  $('#totalTweets span').html(beforeCounter + totalTweets + afterCounter);
+  $('#pagesDone span').html('0');
+  totalTweets = 0;
+  loading = false;
+}
+
+function getData(data) {
+  tweets = data.results;
+  totalTweets += tweets.length;
+  nextPage = getPage.exec(data.next_page);
+  if( nextPage == null ) {
+    showTotal();
+    return;
+  }
+  nextPage = nextPage[1];
+  getTweets(search, nextPage, pageTotal);
+}
+
+function submitTerms() {
+  $('#totalTweets span').html('');
+  $('#pagesDone span').html('0');
+  search = encodeURIComponent($('#query').prop('value'));
+  page = $('#startPage').prop('value');
+  pageTotal = $('#pageTotal').prop('value');
+  if( search == '' ) {
+    alert('Please enter search query');
+    return;
+  }
+  if( page == 0 ) {
+    alert('0 not allowed as start page');
+    return;
+  }
+  loading = true;
+  getTweets(search, page, pageTotal);
+}
+
+function status() {
+  if( loading ) $('#loading,#pagesDone').show();
+  else $('#loading,#pagesDone').hide();
+}
+
+$(function() {
+  loading = false;
+  setInterval(status, 10);
+});
+
+    </script>
+  </head>
+  <body>
+    <h1>Get your twitter counts here!</h1>
+    <form action="" method="get" onsubmit="submitTerms(); return false;">
+      <label for="query">Search for: </label>
+      <input id="query" name="query" type="text" />
+      <br />
+      <label for="startPage">Start on what page (must be greater than 1) </label>
+      <input id="startPage" name="startPage" type="text" value="1" />
+      <br />
+      <label for="pageTotal">How many pages (0 to search until no more results) </label>
+      <input id="pageTotal" name="pageTotal" type="text" value="0" />
+      <input id="submit" name="submit" type="submit" value="Go" />
+      <span>or press enter</span>
+    </form>
+    <div id="totalTweets">Total tweets: <span></span></div>
+    <br />
+    <div id="loading" style="display:none;">Loading!</div>
+    <div id="pagesDone" style="display:none;">Pages done: <span></span></div>
+    <span style="display:none;">Do Electric Cars Pollute More Than Their Gasoline Counterparts</span>
+  </body>
+</html>