Someone wrote a (clever) snippet in vanilla javascript that fetches twitter widgets:
/*********************************************************************
#### Twitter Post Fetcher! ####
Coded by Jason Mayes 2013.
www.jasonmayes.com
Please keep this disclaimer with my code if you use it. Thanks. :-)
Got feedback or questions, ask here: http://goo.gl/JinwJ
*********************************************************************/
var twitterFetcher=function(){var d=null;return{fetch:function(a,b){d=b;var c=document.createElement("script");c.type="text/javascript";c.src="http://cdn.syndication.twimg.com/widgets/timelines/"+a+"?&lang=en&callback=twitterFetcher.callback&suppress_response_codes=true&rnd="+Math.random();document.getElementsByTagName("head")[0].appendChild(c)},callback:function(a){var b=document.createElement("div");b.innerHTML=a.body;a=b.getElementsByClassName("e-entry-title");d(a)}}}();
/*
* ### HOW TO USE: ###
* Create an ID:
* Go to www.twitter.com and sign in as normal, go to your settings page.
* Go to "Widgets" on the left hand side.
* Create a new widget for "user timeline". Feel free to check "exclude replies"
* if you dont want replies in results.
* Now go back to settings page, and then go back to widgets page, you should
* see the widget you just created. Click edit.
* Now look at the URL in your web browser, you will see a long number like this:
* 345735908357048478
* Use this as your ID below instead!
*/
twitterFetcher.fetch('345170787868762112', function(tweets){
// Do what you want with your tweets here! For example:
var x = tweets.length;
var n = 0;
var element = document.getElementById('tweets');
var html = '<ul>';
while(n < x) {
if (tweets[n].innerText) {
html += '<li>' + tweets[n].innerText + '</li>';
} else {
html += '<li>' + tweets[n].textContent + '</li>';
}
n++;
}
html += '</ul>';
element.innerHTML = html;
});
http://jsfiddle.net/jmayes/maT2Z/
Not the cleanest way and maybe not future-proof, but for now the only solution (I know) to access twitter data without OAuth and server-side support.
