Embedded tweets broke when switching from iOS UIWebView to WKWebview

pth_alma · 2017-12-05T12:37:11.329Z

Hi,

we have an iOS app that displays HTML content created by the app code. The HTML page created also contains embedded tweets. We recently switched from UIWebView to WKWebView, and tweet embeds stopped rendering properly. What should we do to fix the problem?

evansobkowicz · 2017-12-05T17:45:13.063Z

Hi @pth_alma!

Can you share a little more about your setup? Is there a url of the page you can share or the exact embed code you’re using?

Thanks!

pth_alma · 2017-12-07T07:20:23.985Z

Hi, here is a recent example of embed code, not working:

<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"fi\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Were proud to be the only Western Conference team to finish without a losing record at Joe Louis Arena. <a href=\"https://twitter.com/hashtag/Farewell2TheJoe?src=hash\">#Farewell2TheJoe</a></p>— Vegas Golden Knights (@GoldenKnights) <a href=\"https://twitter.com/GoldenKnights/status/851181761023193088\">9. huhtikuuta 2017</a></blockquote><script async src=\"//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"></script>

Ignore the forward slashes, this is from source data that comes via JSON string property, hence the escaping of quotes.

evansobkowicz · 2017-12-07T17:33:38.339Z

Try adding https:// to the widgets.js URL so it looks like this: https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js. Sometimes mobile apps have trouble handling protocol relative URLs.

Please let me know if that works or if you’re still having trouble!

pth_alma · 2017-12-08T10:35:15.635Z

Unfortunately, that did not help. It does not matter if widgets.js is from http or https, the tweets do not render.

So, still having trouble.

pth_alma · 2017-12-13T09:58:39.400Z

Is there anything else we could do to debug this issue?

evansobkowicz · 2017-12-13T17:05:58.973Z

Hi @pth_alma!

Unfortunately it’s hard to help debug since I can’t actually see what’s happening. Is the page producing any JS errors?

You can also take a look through our documentation to make sure your implementation is correct: https://dev.twitter.com/web/embedded-tweets

system · 2017-12-27T17:06:03.259Z

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