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jTweets

Submitted by ahmedmali on September 28, 2010 - 9:40am

jTweets is a real-time Twitter feed. It helps you to place a widget in a website so users get updates from twitter as it happens.

jQuery SimpleRSS

Submitted by till on September 18, 2010 - 8:21pm

jQuery SimpleRSS is a jQuery plugin to parse an RSS feed and to display the entries.

Example usage

<ul class="posts"></ul>
<script type="text/javascript>
/* <![CDATA[*/
$('ul.posts').simplerss({url:'/rssfeed'});
/* ]]> */
</script>

Available options

The following options are available:

url: '',
html: '<em><a href="{link}">{title}</a></em><br />{text}',
wrapper: 'li',
dataType: 'xml',
display: 2

url

The URL of the feed. Cross-domain is not (yet?) supported.

html

A simple HTML template used to display each element.

wrapper

The wrapper is the html tag enclosing each entry displayed. The above example uses an unordered list, hence <li>.

Another example:

<div id="feed"></div>
<script type="text/javascript>
/* <![CDATA[*/
$('#feed').simplerss({url:'/rssfeed',wrapper:'span'});
/* ]]> */
</script>

! jQuery jQTubeUtil

Submitted by nirvanatikku on September 14, 2010 - 8:23am

What is jQTubeUtil?

» A JSON-based YouTube Search utility.

What can it do?

» Search YouTube using keywords
» Search YouTube's standard feeds
» Fetch a specific YouTube video
» Get Autocomplete suggestions for YouTube

Why would I want to use it?

» Search YouTube FAST(client side)
» Get up and running with basic YouTube searches in no time
» Integrate YouTube into your site!
» Play with a friendly response of YouTubeVideo objects

Show me something

Gladly... Check out some examples

zLastFM - LastFM plugin for jQuery

Submitted by zazar on April 17, 2010 - 1:12pm

This plugin will get the Loved Tracks, Recent Tracks, Top Albums, Top Artists and Top Tracks for a Last.FM user (requires an API key). It produces structured HTML with in-built CSS classes for styling. Simple and easy to use.

Features

  • Choose from Loved Tracks, Recent Tracks, Top Albums, Top Artists and Top Tracks.
  • Displays header, image, track name, artist name and playcount.
  • Choose the number of items to return.
  • Optionally give a default image.
  • Produces all HTML code and style classes.

zWeatherFeed - Yahoo! Weather plugin for jQuery

Submitted by zazar on April 11, 2010 - 3:57pm

This plugin will read the current weather for a location using Yahoo! Weather. It produces structured HTML with in-built CSS classes for styling. Simple and easy to use.

Features

  • Define one or more locations.
  • Choose to include background image indicating condition.
  • Displays day or night images.
  • Returns city, current temperature and condition description.
  • Choose to include high/low temperatures and wind speed.
  • Creates a link to read full forecast as Yahoo!.
  • Produces all HTML code and style classes.

*New* An animated auto-scrolling example using jQueryTools and zWeatherFeed

zFlickrFeed - Flickr Feed Reader Plugin

Submitted by zazar on April 8, 2010 - 2:53pm

This plugin will read Flickr photo feeds for a user and/or a list of tags. It produces structured HTML with in-built CSS classes for styling. Simple and easy to use.

Features

  • Specify a Flickr user ID, photo tags or both.
  • Specify the number of feeds to return.
  • Choose to include header, title and date.
  • Produces all HTML code and style classes.

zTwitterFeed - Twitter Feed Reader Plugin

Submitted by zazar on April 6, 2010 - 12:22pm

This plugin will read Twitter tweets from a given user name. It produces structured HTML with in-built CSS classes for styling. Simple and easy to use.

Features

  • Specify the number of feeds to return.
  • Choose to include header with user icon and screen name.
  • For each tweet displays the user icon, screen name, lapsed time from posting and tweet.
  • Inserts links where available.
  • Produces all HTML code and style classes.

zRSSFeed - RSS Feed Reader Plugin

Submitted by zazar on April 3, 2010 - 8:07am

This plugin will read RSS feeds from any website url using the Google Feeds API. It produces structured HTML with in-built CSS classes for styling. Simple and easy to use.

Features

  • Supports Atom 1.0, RSS 2.0, RSS 1.0 & RSS 0.9x
  • Specify the number of feeds to return.
  • Choose to include header, date and description.
  • Specify the title HTML tag.
  • Choose to use either a brief or full description (when available).
  • Produces all HTML code and style classes.
  • Customised error message.

$("#template").feed() - AJAXified Templatized RSS Feeder

Submitted by iwhitcomb on June 30, 2009 - 6:29pm

This jQuery class will read RSS feeds on a website through the use of AJAX and feed the data into a template as defined by the developer. Simple create a template object and define the "item" level of the RSS feed once within the object using variables for the different feed items. This plugin will then read the feed and duplicate the template object however many times specified- creating a simple feed reader. VERY easy to implement. http://www.ooeygui.net

Google Feeds API - jQuery plugin

Submitted by uzbekjon on May 27, 2009 - 12:50pm

This plugin build an abstraction layer on top of Google Feeds API. API becomes more jQuery like style. This plugin can get ANY rss on ANY host and converts RSS feeds to JSON (javascript object) to make it easier to use.

Here is an exmaple usage:

$.jGFeed('http://feeds.feedburner.com/jQueryHowto',
function(feeds){
  // Check for errors
  if(!feeds){
    // there was an error
    return false;
  }
  // do whatever you want with feeds here
  for(var i=0; i<feeds.entries.length; i++){
    var entry = feeds.entries[i];
    // Entry title
    entry.title;
  }
}, 10);