Social-feed
The jQuery plugin which shows user feeds from the most popular social networks.
Demo
http://pavelk2.github.io/social-feed-example/
Social networks supported:
- Google+
- VK
- RSS
- Blogspot
Installation
via http://bower.io:
bower install social-feed
or download the latest release:
https://github.com/pavelk2/social-feed/releases
Getting started
Load dependency CSS:
<!-- Social-feed css --> <link href="bower_components/social-feed/css/jquery.socialfeed.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css"> <!-- font-awesome for social network icons --> <link href="//netdna.bootstrapcdn.com/font-awesome/4.0.3/css/font-awesome.css" rel="stylesheet">
Create a container for your feed:
<div class="social-feed-container"></div>
Load dependency javascript
<!-- jQuery --> <script src="bower_components/jquery/dist/jquery.min.js"></script> <!-- Codebird.js - required for TWITTER --> <script src="bower_components/codebird-js/codebird.js"></script> <!-- doT.js for rendering templates --> <script src="bower_components/doT/doT.min.js"></script> <!-- Moment.js for showing "time ago" and/or "date"--> <script src="bower_components/moment/min/moment.min.js"></script> <!-- Moment Locale to format the date to your language (eg. italian lang)--> <script src="bower_components/moment/locale/it.js"></script> <!-- Social-feed js --> <script src="bower_components/social-feed/js/jquery.socialfeed.js"></script>
Initialize the social-feed plugin:
<script> $(document).ready(function(){ $('.social-feed-container').socialfeed({ // INSTAGRAM instagram:{ accounts: ['@teslamotors','#teslamotors'], //Array: Specify a list of accounts from which to pull posts limit: 2, //Integer: max number of posts to load client_id: 'YOUR_INSTAGRAM_CLIENT_ID', //String: Instagram client id (optional if using access token) access_token: 'YOUR_INSTAGRAM_ACCESS_TOKEN' //String: Instagram access token }, // GENERAL SETTINGS length:400 //Integer: For posts with text longer than this length, show an ellipsis. }); }); </script>
When you run the plugin, make sure that you have your webserver running
To alter the default post markup, edit template.html
or pass a template string into the template_html
parameter.
##All Settings
Social-feed.js supports many social networks. If you don't need or want to pull data from them all, remove the ones you don't need.
$('.social-feed-container').socialfeed({ // FACEBOOK facebook:{ accounts: ['@teslamotors','!teslamotors'], //Array: Specify a list of accounts from which to pull wall posts limit: 2, //Integer: max number of posts to load access_token: 'YOUR_FACEBOOK_ACCESS_TOKEN' //String: "APP_ID|APP_SECRET" }, // TWITTER twitter:{ accounts: ['@spacex'], //Array: Specify a list of accounts from which to pull tweets limit: 2, //Integer: max number of tweets to load consumer_key: 'YOUR_CONSUMER_KEY', //String: consumer key. make sure to have your app read-only consumer_secret: 'YOUR_CONSUMER_SECRET_KEY', //String: consumer secret key. make sure to have your app read-only tweet_mode: 'compatibility' //String: change to "extended" to show the whole tweet }, // VK vk:{ accounts: ['@125936523','#teslamotors'], //Array: Specify a list of accounts from which to pull posts limit: 2, //Integer: max number of posts to load source: 'all' //String: VK API post filter. Possible values: "Owner","Others","all","suggests" }, // GOOGLEPLUS google:{ accounts: ['#teslamotors'], //Array: Specify a list of accounts from which to pull posts limit: 2, //Integer: max number of posts to load access_token: 'YOUR_GOOGLE_PLUS_ACCESS_TOKEN'//String: G+ access token }, // INSTAGRAM instagram:{ accounts: ['@teslamotors','#teslamotors'], //Array: Specify a list of accounts from which to pull posts limit: 2, //Integer: max number of posts to load client_id: 'YOUR_INSTAGRAM_CLIENT_ID', //String: Instagram client id (option if using access token) access_token: 'YOUR_INSTAGRAM_ACCESS_TOKEN' //String: Instagram access token }, // PINTEREST pinterest:{ accounts: ['@teslamotors/model-s','@me'], //Array: Specify a list of accounts from which to pull posts //@me to pull your pins //@user/board to pull pins from a user board limit: 2, //Integer: max number of posts to load access_token: 'YOUR_PINTEREST_ACCESS_TOKEN' //String: Pinterest client id }, // RSS rss:{ urls: ['http://teslapodcast.libsyn.com/rss'], //Array: Specifiy a list of rss feed from which to pull posts limit: 2 //Integer: max number of posts to load for each url } // GENERAL SETTINGS length:400, //Integer: For posts with text longer than this length, show an ellipsis. show_media:true, //Boolean: if false, doesn't display any post images media_min_width: 300, //Integer: Only get posts with images larger than this value update_period: 5000, //Integer: Number of seconds before social-feed will attempt to load new posts. template: "bower_components/social-feed/template.html", //String: Filename used to get the post template. template_html: //String: HTML used for each post. This overrides the 'template' filename option '<article class="twitter-post"> \ <h4>{{=it.author_name}}</h4><p>{{=it.text}} \ <a href="{{=it.link}}" target="_blank">read more</a> \ </p> \ </article>', date_format: "ll", //String: Display format of the date attribute (see http://momentjs.com/docs/#/displaying/format/) date_locale: "en", //String: The locale of the date (see: http://momentjs.com/docs/#/i18n/changing-locale/) moderation: function(content) { //Function: if returns false, template will have class hidden return (content.text) ? content.text.indexOf('fuck') == -1 : true; }, callback: function() { //Function: This is a callback function which is evoked when all the posts are collected and displayed console.log("All posts collected!"); } });
Dependencies
- http://fontawesome.io/ - for displaying icons of social networks. You can remove this dependency by editing replacing .fa icons with images in the template.
- http://momentjs.com/ - for displaying time ago
- http://olado.github.io/doT/ - for rendering templates
- https://github.com/jublonet/codebird-js - for sending requests to Twitter
Ordering / sorting
Please note, when using a custom template, that the ordering mechanism depends on the dt-create
attribute.
License
Issues
Found a bug or want a feature to be implemented? Please report it here https://github.com/pavelk2/social-feed/issues
Currently we work on server side: (https://github.com/pavelk2/social-feed-server)
Let us know
If you use this plugin, please write us a short message with a link to the project where you embed the plugin, and some features you want to have implemented here. It helps us to stay focused on the important issues. It is not mandatory, but we really appreciate it!
Do you want to become a part of the Social-feed? Write us and become an active contributor.