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Replace HTML entities in tweets pushed to IRC? #29
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There are also occasional issues with the website not showing entities properly on Link suggestions. I have been meaning to use http://htmlentities.rubyforge.org/ to fix this up.
Thanks for pointing this out.
FWIW, I was just looking at my own Twitter bot, trying to diagnose why my entity replacement didn't seem to be working, and noticed that the Twitter API returns double-escaped entities.
For example, literal < is returned as <.
I solved the issue by running the text trough the filter twice.
$tweet_text = decode_entities($tweet_text); # &lt; --> < $tweet_text = decode_entities($tweet_text); # < --> <
Crude, but effective.
Example:
<showbot> @5by5: The Critical Path with @asymco & @danbenjamin is starting now - http://t.co/sI19cI8S (17 seconds ago)For what it's worth, I had the same issue with something very similar I wrote in perl, where I was passing tweets through decode_entities() as provided by HTML::Entities. The problem seemed to be solely with & not being properly decoded, and I ended up fixing that with a simple replace before I passed the tweet text on to decode_entities()--kludgy, but it worked.