Drupal import Tweets from Twitter as Nodes

Question

I want to be able to import my tweets from twitter into Drupal as Nodes. I want to be able to link @names and #tags back to the correct pages. I also dont myTweeterName to appear at the start of the tweet.

How would you go about doing this. The twitter module does not create nodes but store data in it's own table. The feed module can read in the tweets from the RSS feed as nodes but will display my name and not link @names and #tags.

The following post by Gábor shows how he has done it but I am not sure of how he has written a custom module to do this.

Any pointers would be appreciated.

Answer 1

Gabor is using the Feeds module along with the input filter from the twitter module.

From his post:

Tweets have certain special items like @username references and #hashtags. These should be linked to their respective twitter.com pages, and twitter module has input filters for these which I could use to build up an input format. (Given my use case, I had no use for the rest of the twitter module, so I took the format code into my site-specific module, and do not actually use twitter.module.) The twitter feed also includes my username at the beginning, which my site readers will either know or do not care about, so I also wrote a quick filter which will transform my username to a "from twitter" link at the end of the node body.

You'll need to start importing your tweets using the feeds module. Then you'll need to add the input formats from the Twitter module to your default import (probably "Filtered HTML").