Twitter Search Widget Generator

BrianSlatts · 2014-09-04T02:45:35.000Z

I’m finding that when generating widgets through the Settings Interface of a standard Twitter account, the “data-widget-id” number is not auto-populating as it used to and I’m having to scrape it from the url in order for the widget to render correctly on my website (http://www.houseparty.com). I’ve attached two versions of the code below to exemplify:

Code Generated as of 9/3/14:
#EVEREADYParty Tweets

Code Generated as of 8/25/14:
#EVEREADYParty Tweets

Please review with your team the auto-generating script to ensure that it’s pulling the data-widget-id into the widget code.

Thank you!

Brian Slattery (@BrianSlatts)

AGWSRNATION · 2014-09-04T03:27:09.000Z

YES! Thank you for posting this question… I’m about insane trying to get a twitter ID to generate within the code and it AINT HAPPENING… I’ve been on a Mac on a PC… I’ve been on Chrome, Safari, Firefox… I’m almost bald. Please fix this Twitter!

vincentisambart · 2014-09-04T03:44:44.000Z

We are currently investigating the problem.
Currently the only workaround is to get the value for data-widget-id from the URL of the widget configuration page: that page’s URL is of the form https://twitter.com/settings/widgets/XXXXXXXXXX/edit, with XXXXXXXXXX being the widget id.

niall · 2016-02-06T03:54:51.224Z