Notebook: Feature: Embed Tweets

[pylang]

Is it possible to embed tweets in Jupyter notebooks? If not, can an IPython.display option be added similar to HTML, YouTubeVideo, IFrame, etc.

Example

from IPython import display

display.Tweet("http://bit.ly/2vYS5ZD")

[takluyver]

It's possible by embedding the relevant HTML, but there isn't a shortcut like YouTubeVideo.

I'd personally favour putting site-specific things like Tweet in third party modules which can be upgraded separately, rather than putting them all into IPython. They're really easy to define: it's just a class with a _repr_html_ method that returns HTML:

class Boo(object):
    def __init__(self, text='Boo'):
        self.text = text

    def _repr_html_(self):
        return '<h1>%s</h1>' % self.text

[pylang]

Thanks @takluyver. With your help, I see how simple it is. For anyone interested, I used the embed string from a selected tweet:

Select the Embed Tweet option:

Copy/Paste the string:

Code:

class Tweet(object):
    def __init__(self, embed_str=None):
        self.embed_str = embed_str

    def _repr_html_(self):
        return self.embed_str

s = ("""
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Watch <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/JupyterCon?src=hash">#JupyterCon</a> keynotes live on Facebook—starts 8:50AM ET <a href="https://t.co/Z6KFG2qQzd">https://t.co/Z6KFG2qQzd</a><a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Jupyter?src=hash">#Jupyter</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/datascience?src=hash">#datascience</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/ProjectJupyter">@ProjectJupyter</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/NumFOCUS">@NumFOCUS</a> <a href="https://t.co/7FrmpA3jaA">pic.twitter.com/7FrmpA3jaA</a></p>&mdash; O&#39;Reilly Media (@OReillyMedia) <a href="https://twitter.com/OReillyMedia/status/901048172738482176">August 25, 2017</a></blockquote>
<script async src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
""")

Output:

Here's another option using Twitter's oEmbed API to get the HTML markup given a URL:

import requests

class Tweet(object):
    def __init__(self, s, embed_str=False):
        if not embed_str:
            # Use Twitter's oEmbed API
            # https://dev.twitter.com/web/embedded-tweets
            api = 'https://publish.twitter.com/oembed?url={}'.format(s)
            response = requests.get(api)
            self.text = response.json()["html"]
        else:
            self.text = s

    def _repr_html_(self):
        return self.text

Tweet("https://twitter.com/OReillyMedia/status/901048172738482176")

[jankoslavic]

What about embedding Tweets directly into markdown?

Why is this not working?

[rgbkrk]

Markdown is sanitized to mitigate cross site scripting issues, HTML output is only shown if the notebook is trusted.

[jankoslavic]

Thanks @rgbkrk. PS: this is a result in a trusted notebook. Is there a way to show also the picture?

[jankoslavic]

I fond another way using %%html magic:
```
%%html

Watch #JupyterCon keynotes live on Facebook—starts 8:50AM ET https://t.co/Z6KFG2qQzd#Jupyter #datascience @ProjectJupyter @NumFOCUS pic.twitter.com/7FrmpA3jaA

— O'Reilly Media (@OReillyMedia) August 25, 2017

[takluyver]

I think we actually sanitize markdown regardless of trust; whether a notebook is trusted or not only relates to output.