We have a web page builder app that used the old Twitter Widget website to generate HTML (e.g. with “new TWTR” in it), then scrape that HTML for the width, height, text colour and other useful information. The new generated code for a widget is very different and does not expose any of these useful pieces of info. The only solid piece of info is the widget id, i.e.
Tweets by @twitter
I have read https://dev.twitter.com/docs/embedded-timelines where is shows how you can override the settings stored on the twitter servers, but our users won’t be doing that, we need to read the settings from twitter e.g. the theme used and height of the widget.
Where should we look for how to extract information about this widget? Is it exposed via the API anywhere?
