Twitter Enhancements: Retweet This

By Ziru — Last update Oct 17, 2008 — Installed 354 times.

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// ==UserScript==
// @name           Twitter Enhancements: Retweet This
// @namespace      http://twitter.com
// @description   Append a retweet button to the end of each twitter entry
// @include        http://twitter.com/*
// @include        https://twitter.com/*
// @author    Ziru
// ==/UserScript==

const locale = '';
// const locale = 'zh-CN';

var gblRetweetTemplate, gblRetweetButtonTitle;

if (locale == 'zh-CN') {
  gblRetweetTemplate = '[转] @%a: %c';
  gblRetweetButtonTitle = '转发';
} else {
  gblRetweetTemplate = 'Retweeting @%a: %c';
  gblRetweetButtonTitle = 'Retweet this';
}

function createButton(target, func, title, width, height, src) {
  var img, button;
  img = document.createElement('img');
  img.width = width;
  img.height = height;
  img.src = src;
  button = document.createElement('a');
  button._target = target;
  button.title = title;
  button.href = '#';
  button.addEventListener('click', func, true);
  button.appendChild(img);
  return button;
}

function GetEntryAuthor(entry) {
  var url = document.location.href.replace(/\?.*/g,'');
  var re = /^https?:\/\/twitter.com\/(.*)$/;
  var m = re.exec(url);
  if (m && (m[1] != 'home') && (m[1] != 'replies')) return m[1];
  else return re.exec(entry.getElementsByClassName('url')[0].href)[1];
}

function getText(elem) {
  var result = '';
  for (var i = 0; i < elem.childNodes.length; i++) {
    var childElem = elem.childNodes[i];
    if (childElem.nodeType == 3)
      result = result + childElem.nodeValue;
    else if ((childElem.nodeType == 1) && (childElem.tagName.toUpperCase() == 'A'))     // remove the html link tag
      result = result + childElem.firstChild.nodeValue;
  }
  return result.replace(/\n/g,'').replace(/^ *\t* */g, '').replace(/ *\t* *$/g, '');
}

function OnRetweetButtonClicked(event, entry) {
  var entryAuthor = GetEntryAuthor(entry);
  var entryContent = getText(entry.getElementsByClassName('entry-content')[0]);
  var retweetStr = gblRetweetTemplate.replace(/%a/g, entryAuthor).replace(/%c/g, entryContent);
  var url = document.location.href.replace(/\?.*/g,'');
  var re = /^(https?:\/\/twitter.com\/).*$/;
  var m = re.exec(url);
  window.open(m[1] + 'home?status=' + encodeURIComponent(retweetStr));
  event.preventDefault();
}

function CreateRetweetButton(entry) {
  return createButton(
            null,
            function(event) { OnRetweetButtonClicked(event, entry); },
            gblRetweetButtonTitle,
            13,
            12,
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}

function addRetweetButtonToEntry(entry) {
  var actions = entry.getElementsByClassName('actions');
  if (!actions)
    actions = entry.getElementsByClassName('status-actions');
  var action = actions[0];
  if (action) {
    var button = CreateRetweetButton(entry);
    action.appendChild(button);
    button.style.display = 'none';
    button.style.margin = '0';
    entry.addEventListener('mouseover', function(evt) {  button.style.display = 'inline'; }, true);
    entry.addEventListener('mouseout', function(evt) { button.style.display = 'none'; }, true);
  }
}

// =================  MAIN ================= 
var entryElems = document.getElementsByClassName('hentry');
if (!entryElems) return;
for (var i = 0; i < entryElems.length; i++)
  addRetweetButtonToEntry(entryElems[i]);