You can't access external pages via javascript because of webbrowser security. You will have to write a script that gets the .json page and send that to your user (a proxy).
Tom On 9/1/10 5:12 AM, jmargey wrote: > Hi all, > > My first day working on a twitter app, basically I have a web page > that displays a public feed from a celeb. I am calling > http://twitter.com/statuses/user_timeline/celebname.json and then > using jquery to display the feed. Now I know the json exists because > if I paste the url above in the browser it lets me save the json. If I > call the json locally from my code http://localhost/test/celebname.json > it returns the json and I can display the feed, but when I call > http://twitter.com/statuses/user_timeline/celebname.json it returns > nothing. Any ideas? Is is to do with the switch to OAuth? Do I have to > create a twitter app which calls the feed, and the celeb has to > authorise the app? Even though its a public feed? > > Any suggestions would be great. I posted code below > > $(function () { > var html =""; > > /* I can save the following json but it returns nothing in code */ > var tweeturl = "http://twitter.com/statuses/user_timeline/ > celebname.json"; > > /* this works when json saved locally*/ > //var tweeturl = "http://localhost/testcelebname.json";; > > > $.getJSON(tweeturl, function (d) { > > > $.each(d, function (i, item) { > > > if (i % 3 == 0 && i != 0) { > html += "</div>"; > } > > if (i % 3 == 0) > { > html += "<div class=\"tweet-items\">"; > } > > > html += "<div class=\"jeanne-tweet\"><p>" + item.text + "</ > p><div class=\"tweet-date\">" + item.created_at + "</div></div>"; > > }); > > $('#tweet-items').append(html); > }); > }); > -- Twitter developer documentation and resources: http://dev.twitter.com/doc API updates via Twitter: http://twitter.com/twitterapi Issues/Enhancements Tracker: http://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/list Change your membership to this group: http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk?hl=en
