{"id":1196,"date":"2009-12-30T09:00:16","date_gmt":"2009-12-30T08:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.matthijskamstra.nl\/blog\/?p=1196"},"modified":"2010-01-09T19:52:31","modified_gmt":"2010-01-09T18:52:31","slug":"twitter-rss-reader-in-flash-as3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.matthijskamstra.nl\/blog\/2009\/12\/30\/twitter-rss-reader-in-flash-as3\/","title":{"rendered":"Twitter rss reader in Flash as3"},"content":{"rendered":"
Update #1:<\/strong> must read this post<\/a>, otherwise this code will fail when you place it on your server!<\/div>\n

I recently started my own company (eMCeeKay.nl<\/a>) and I need to make a website for it…. Not really a problem besides that I don’t have any time to create a design.<\/p>\n

So I was thinking about a easy way to update this website without spending extra time on that.<\/p>\n

Because the main focus of the company is papertoys (urban papertoys), I need design or papertoy related info in my my new website ().<\/p>\n

And I came with two ways to update it without extra effort: twitter<\/a> (I tweet about a lot of stuff but primarily about papertoys) and this the content on this blog (category: urban-papercraft<\/a>).<\/p>\n

I started with the Twitter part.
\nThere are two Twitter AS3 libraries that “speak” to the Twitter API: twitterscript\/<\/a> and tweetr\/<\/a>.
\nBut after reading the source I concluded that it was a little bit to much: I don’t want to tweet from emceekay.nl or do searches, so that was not the way to go.<\/p>\n

A little google search gave me the solution: http:\/\/www.theflashlogs.org\/flash\/displaying-twitter-feeds-in-flash-with-rss\/<\/a>, simple using the standard rss from Twitter (in my case: Matthijs Kamstra – Twitter – rss<\/a>).<\/p>\n

The code on theflashlogs.org is pritty simple, and very easy to use.
\nSo my code is a little addition to that, I need some stuff done to the rss feed:<\/p>\n