Best way to pull Twitter, Last.FM and Flickr feeds onto my website.

BFCTom · 21 Jul 2009 at 18:13

Hi,

I'm just setting up my portfolio website after finishing uni and am wanting to put my recent tweets, songs and photos on there.

What's the best way to pull this information from the respective sites and display it on my own?

Would this be possible with jQuery?

Cheers for any help

cotton31 · 21 Jul 2009 at 18:44

Have a look at this. I know the vid is called Designing for Wordpress, but the techniques used in there for the Flickr/Twitter stuff aren't Wordpress specific. Hope this helps!

Not sure about Last.fm - maybe something similar exists for that?

tsinc80697 · 21 Jul 2009 at 19:05

Depends if you're running your website on a CMS or just standalone and looking for pre-built scripts.
I have a lifestream on the footer of my website with a mixture of Expression Engine plugins and non EE.

Twitter has instructions on their website, so does Last.FM but Flickr you might have to google

BFCTom · 21 Jul 2009 at 19:46

Cheers for the info thus far!

I'm using Wordpress as my CMS and I'm also wanting the data to be displayed in the footer of my site.

I did search for plug-ins but I was under the impression it could be done a lot more simply with a few lines of code.

NathanT · 21 Jul 2009 at 21:00

For twitter I'd use http://twitter.com/badges
Easy enough, follow the onscreen instructions and at the end gives you some HTML code to paste

For Flickr I'd use http://flickrslidr.com/
Just follow the instructions on screen, real simple set-up

LastFM feed for Wordpress, cant find that much info on it tbh:
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/lastfm-rps/

BFCTom · 22 Jul 2009 at 00:52

NathanT said:
For twitter I'd use http://twitter.com/badges
Easy enough, follow the onscreen instructions and at the end gives you some HTML code to paste

For Flickr I'd use http://flickrslidr.com/
Just follow the instructions on screen, real simple set-up

LastFM feed for Wordpress, cant find that much info on it tbh:
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/lastfm-rps/

Nice one, I managed to get Last.FM and Twitter working with these

Probably work on Flickr tomorrow.

On a side note, does anyone know of a good jQuery image slider plug-in for WP? I'm wanting to display 3-5 select projects on my home page. I've tried vSlider but for some reason I can't get it working, it just sticks on the first image

TwoSaints · 22 Jul 2009 at 08:36

http://remysharp.com/2007/05/18/add-twitter-to-your-blog-step-by-step/

This is a much nicer method of adding twitter to your site, it also uses a loading image and loads twitter in the background rather than hanging your site until twitter has loaded, so it's especially useful if twitter is down etc.

BFCTom · 23 Jul 2009 at 21:49

BFCTom said:
does anyone know of a good jQuery image slider plug-in for WP? I'm wanting to display 3-5 select projects on my home page. I've tried vSlider but for some reason I can't get it working, it just sticks on the first image

Anyone?

Sagalout · 24 Jul 2009 at 15:51

We did a really nice lastFM plugin for jQuery:

http://www.engageinteractive.co.uk/blog/2009/06/16/last-fm-jquery-plugin/

mr.sly · 24 Jul 2009 at 16:38

Sagalout said:
We did a really nice lastFM plugin for jQuery:

http://www.engageinteractive.co.uk/blog/2009/06/16/last-fm-jquery-plugin/

Genius! Been looking for a simple way to add album artwork. I've just been grabbing the data from the XML feed so far.