State of the Brontos

[Mazian]

That definitely wouldn't work as-is - the bit I posted was a response from the Twitter server, not board-side code.

I believe the test would be

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<script type="text/javascript">
function loadx(data) {
  if(data.error || data.errors) {
    document.write('[Error displaying tweet]");
  }
  else {
    document.write(data.html);
  }
}
</script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="https://api.twitter.com/1/statuses/oembed.json?id={IDENTIFIER}&callback=loadx&dnt=true"></script>
<div class='twitter' onLoad='loadx().html'/></div>

[Mothra]

That definitely wouldn't work as-is - the bit I posted was a response from the Twitter server, not board-side code.

I believe the test would be

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<script type="text/javascript">
function loadx(data) {
  if(data.error || data.errors) {
    document.write('[Error displaying tweet]");
  }
  else {
    document.write(data.html);
  }
}
</script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="https://api.twitter.com/1/statuses/oembed.json?id={IDENTIFIER}&callback=loadx&dnt=true"></script>
<div class='twitter' onLoad='loadx().html'/></div>

Hm, copy/pasted it in, but using this as a test case, doesn't look like it worked.

[Upthorn]

Guys, I need you to write out the whole thing, I have no idea what any of this is.

I've put this together in what I'm guessing is the right order, and I've pasted it in.

If this is wrong, please correct it and paste the whole thing so I can copy/paste it.

Okay. So there was a minor issue in your thing. And I don't totally trust what The Riddler wrote, anyway, so I went ahead and checked StackExchange for a couple answers and got:

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<script type="text/javascript">
function loadx(data) {
  if(typeof data.html !== 'undefined') {
    if (isset(data.html)) {
      document.write('[Error displaying tweet]");
      return;
    }
  document.write(data.html);
}
</script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="https://api.twitter.com/1/statuses/oembed.json?id={IDENTIFIER}&callback=loadx"></script>
<div class='twitter' onLoad='loadx().html'/></div>

[Mothra]

Okay. So there was a minor issue in your thing. And I don't totally trust what The Riddler wrote, anyway, so I went ahead and checked StackExchange for a couple answers and got:

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<script type="text/javascript">
function loadx(data) {
  if(typeof data.html === 'undefined' || !isset(data.html)) {
    document.write('[Error displaying tweet]");
  }
  else {
    document.write(data.html);
  }
}
</script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="https://api.twitter.com/1/statuses/oembed.json?id={IDENTIFIER}&callback=loadx"></script>
<div class='twitter' onLoad='loadx().html'/></div>

No dice here, either.

Copied it in, enabled it, checked the Mongrelpost, it was blank. Replaced it with the original embed code, the tweet appears.

[Upthorn]

No dice here, either.

Copied it in, enabled it, checked the Mongrelpost, it was blank. Replaced it with the original embed code, the tweet appears.

Was re-thinking my thing and editing my code while you tested. Try

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<script type="text/javascript">
function loadx(data) {
  if(typeof data.html !== 'undefined') {
    if (isset(data.html)) {
      document.write(data.html);
      return;
    }
  document.write('[Error displaying tweet]');
}
</script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="https://api.twitter.com/1/statuses/oembed.json?id={IDENTIFIER}&callback=loadx"></script>
<div class='twitter' onLoad='loadx().html'/></div>

After that I'm out of ideas.

EDIT: AH FUCK I FUCKED IT UP AGAIN. TRY COPY-PASTING ONE LAST TIME IF YOU DIDN'T SEE THIS EDIT BEFORE YOU TRIED!

[Mothra]

Was re-thinking my thing and editing my code while you tested. Try

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<script type="text/javascript">
function loadx(data) {
  if(typeof data.html !== 'undefined') {
    if (isset(data.html)) {
      document.write(data.html);
      return;
    }
  document.write('[Error displaying tweet]');
}
</script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="https://api.twitter.com/1/statuses/oembed.json?id={IDENTIFIER}&callback=loadx"></script>
<div class='twitter' onLoad='loadx().html'/></div>

After that I'm out of ideas.

EDIT: AH FUCK I FUCKED IT UP AGAIN. TRY COPY-PASTING ONE LAST TIME IF YOU DIDN'T SEE THIS EDIT BEFORE YOU TRIED!

Tried the post-edit code, but nadda, same issues where it doesn't embed at all.

Reverted back to the O.G. - willing to try others if people want to take more swings at this.

[Upthorn]

so I'm now developing a tampermonkey userscript to replace brontoforum.us [twitter] tag code with my custom version so I can test as I attempt to develop a new version that displays tweet loading failures...

[Upthorn]

Was re-thinking my thing and editing my code while you tested. Try

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<script type="text/javascript">
function loadx(data) {
  if(typeof data.html !== 'undefined') {
    if (isset(data.html)) {
      document.write(data.html);
      return;
    }
  document.write('[Error displaying tweet]');
}
</script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="https://api.twitter.com/1/statuses/oembed.json?id={IDENTIFIER}&callback=loadx"></script>
<div class='twitter' onLoad='loadx().html'/></div>

After that I'm out of ideas.

EDIT: AH FUCK I FUCKED IT UP AGAIN. TRY COPY-PASTING ONE LAST TIME IF YOU DIDN'T SEE THIS EDIT BEFORE YOU TRIED!

Tried the post-edit code, but nadda, same issues where it doesn't embed at all.

Reverted back to the O.G. - willing to try others if people want to take more swings at this.

The actual solution is so simple as to make me furious it took me this long to find:

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<script type="text/javascript">
function loadx(data) {
  document.write(data.html);
}
</script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="https://api.twitter.com/1/statuses/oembed.json?id={IDENTIFIER}&callback=loadx&dnt=true" onerror="document.write('[ERROR LOADING TWEET!]')"></script>

Edit: So I figured out early on that the reason Thad's solution didn't work is that loadx(data) is only called when the api actually loads a tweet. When there is no tweet, the API is supposed to call the callback with the json blob mazian posted, but it actually just gives an error 400.
So I spent hours trying to figure out how to get tampermonkey userscripts to load external resources without triggering a cross-origin-resource-security violation. Then, when I worked out what function to call and how to get tampermonkey to let me access it, and made my first successful tests of getting the API response, and was finally ready to start trying js to parse it when successful and error out when it failed...
The tampermonkey API simply... stopped making those network requests at all. Even when I reverted to the version of the script that had *just* successfully done it.

Anyway, all of that turned out to be unnecessary work only because I was bad at googling "html detect external script load failure".

[Mongrel]

You guys are all champs. :]

[Mothra]

That worked! Updated code is now live.

I checked a Thadpost on page two of that Twitter discussion thread and it showed the error correctly.

[Thad]

Seeing it in Firefox with privacy protections turned on, too.

Which is great, because now I know when people are talking about a tweet I can't see.

[Mazian]

The actual solution is so simple as to make me furious it took me this long to find:

There is no better one-line summary of the coding experience.

Thanks for figuring it out!

[Thad]

The following words in your search query were ignored because they are too common words: suikoden.

phpBB are you fucking with me

[Esperath]

SA is trying to back up all of their Imgur files before the Imgurpocalypse. I dunno if we can do something similar for bronto and fossilized.bronto , but we're going to have a whole fuckton of dead image links soon.

I went and saved some of my images across the board incarnations, other people may wish to do the same.

[Lady]

Oh, uh, whoops. Suppose there's still value in hunting down and rehosting imgur links? I'm kinda surprised I didn't hear about this at all, but May was kinda a lost month for me

[Mongrel]

Sorry to annoy, but do we know why the [webm] tags are resizing videos up to force them to the board size? Makes everything huge :(

[sei]

Seeing this all over the forum:

[Error: Tweet has been removed or cannot load.]

Any idea what might be breaking twitter embeds on the client side? Tried killing Adblock, NoScript, and CanvasBlocker, as well as both Chrome and Firefox. Possible that browser privacy settings kill them?

[Mothra]

Seeing this all over the forum:

[Error: Tweet has been removed or cannot load.]

Any idea what might be breaking twitter embeds on the client side? Tried killing Adblock, NoScript, and CanvasBlocker, as well as both Chrome and Firefox. Possible that browser privacy settings kill them?

Nah it's likely that the URL for Twitter.com is now "X.com", that'd be my guess.

[Thad]

I've never been able to see them in Firefox, so I think privacy settings probably do cause issues with them.

But if you could see them before and can't see them now, then yeah that's probably not it in your case.

[Mongrel]

FWIW the URLs still haven't changed.