Filter tweets in Safari
I've been looking for a Safari extension which filters tweets by keywords for some time. Most were abandoned and none of whem worked with the current Twitter layout, so I decided to learn how to code Safari extensions and see if I could code one.
Writing a Safari extension is simple since Apple provides an Extension Builder within Safari and there is a nice tutorial on Macworld which helped me quite a bit. Apple's documentation is good too.
I had to spend about 90% of the time wondering how to retrieve the settings from the extension, which requires a convoluted process involving message passing between two Javascript classes, but in the end it seems to work.
It is election time in Spain, so get the extension from Github and get rid of those pesky political tweets without needing to unfollow anyone!
Tags: software