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jquery social media plugin that aggregates and combines Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, YouTube, Instagram, Pinterest and.. Combine social feeds from multiple social networks or RSS in elegant layouts via this social plugin.

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This project is no longer being maintained due to most social API's no requiring OAuth and some level of server-side authentication. The original intent of this project was solely browser-side JavaScript.

jquery-socialist - A jQuery social plugin for creating streams from social networks and feeds

Even if you hate socialism (as I do), you'll love this flexible jQuery social media plugin. jQuery Socialist is a plugin that lets you create a social stream or social wall from multiple social networks in one place. Use it to pull content from Facebook pages, Twitter, Instagram, LinkedIn, YouTube and others.

Features

- Display updates from multiple social networks in attractive visual layouts
- Supports Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, YouTube, Tumblr, Instagram, Flickr, Pinterest, RSS Feeds, Craigslist, Google+ and more..
- Multiple themes
- Easy to implement with just a few lines of code

Plugin Screenshot

Examples

[Display Flickr photos in Pinterest-style layouts][1]

[Combine and display Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn updates][1]

[Show YouTube video thumbnails][1]

[Display Craiglist postings for an area and category][1]

[Visualize any RSS feed as a responsive social wall][1]

[Click Here for More Demos][2] [1]: http://plugins.in1.com/socialist/demo [2]: http://plugins.in1.com/socialist/

Usage

1) Include the .js and .css files in your HTML document <HEAD> section:

<link href="../jquery.socialist.css" rel="stylesheet" />
<script src='../jquery.socialist.js'></script>

2) Use jQuery Socialist on any <DIV> element:

$('#content').socialist({
    networks: [
        {name:'linkedin',id:'buddy-media'},
        {name:'facebook',id:'in1dotcom'},
        {name:'pinterest',id:'potterybarn'},
        {name:'twitter',id:'in1dotcom'},
        {name:'googleplus',id:'105588557807820541973/posts'},
        {name:'rss',id:' http://feeds.feedburner.com/good/lbvp'},
        {name:'rss',id:'http://www.makebetterwebsites.com/feed/'},
        {name:'craigslist',id:'boo',areaName:'southcoast'},
        {name:'rss',id:'http://www.houzz.com/getGalleries/featured/out-rss'}
    ],
    isotope:false,
    random:false,
    fields:['source','heading','text','date','image']
});

Options

**networks**
An array of network definition objects
**network definitions**
A javascript object containing the name of the network, id and other network specific parameters.
Most networks require only the id. Some networks such as Craiglist and Flickr require additional options.

    {name:'linkedin',id:'linkedin-companyname'},
    {name:'facebook',id:'(facebook-pagename)'},
    {name:'tumblr',id:'(tumblr-blogname)'},
    {name:'pinterest',id:'(pinterest-username/pinboard-name)'},
    {name:'flickr',id:'54772265@N04',apiKey:'(your-flick-api-key here)'},
    {name:'youtube',id:'potterybarn'},
    {name:'twitter',id:'in1dotcom'},
    {name:'googleplus',id:'105588557807820541973/posts'},
    {name:'rss',id:'http://www.makebetterwebsites.com/feed/'},
    {name:'craigslist',id:'boo',areaName:'southcoast'},
    {name:'instagram',id:'socialmedia',apiKey:'(your-instagram-api-key here)'},
    
**random**
true or false; default value is: true
**isotope**
true or false; default value is: true
**headingLength**
An integer value that indicates the max number of characters to display in the 'heading' field of each result
**textLength**
An integer value that indicates the max number of characters to display in the 'text' description field
**maxResults**
An integer value that indicates the max number of results to show
**theme**
(none) or 'clean'; default value is: (none)
**size**
(none) or 'small' or 'large'; default value is:(none)
**fields**
An array of strings that indicate which field values to display. Any of the following: 'source','heading','text','date','image','share'

Dependencies

The dependencies (included with jQuery Socialist):

- jQuery Isotope Plugin v1.5.19: An exquisite jQuery plugin for magical layouts (http://isotope.metafizzy.co)
- jQuery Cross Domain Ajax: http://james.padolsey.com/javascript/cross-domain-requests-with-jquery/

License

jQuery Socialist (a social media plugin) is provided under a MIT license: http://opensource.org/licenses/mit-license.php/

Use of the included jQuery Isotope Plugin requires a commerical use license: http://metafizzy.co/#licenses

Updates

9/24/2012 - Fixed Tumblr parsing issues 12/14/2012 - Added Instagram support 2/12/2013 - Fixed Twitter bug on posts w/o links

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