A Promise-oriented asynchronous client library for the Twitter REST and Streaming API's.
This is developed based on node-twitter, however, is NOT COMPATIBLE with the original library.
Both of the REST methods are redesigned to be Thenable and can be chained with methods then.
var Twitter = require('twitter');
var client = new Twitter({
consumer_key: '',
consumer_secret: '',
access_token_key: '',
access_token_secret: ''
});
var params = {screen_name: 'nodejs'};
client.get('statuses/user_timeline', params).then(function(tweets, response) {
console.log(tweets);
}, function(err, response) {
console.log(err);
}).then(function() {
console.log('Done.');
});You will need valid Twitter developer credentials in the form of a set of consumer and access tokens/keys. You can get these here. Do not forgot to adjust your permissions - most POST request require write permissions.
var Twitter = require('twitter');
var client = new Twitter({
consumer_key: '',
consumer_secret: '',
access_token_key: '',
access_token_secret: ''
});Add your credentials accordingly. I would use environment variables to keep your private info safe. So something like:
var client = new Twitter({
consumer_key: process.env.TWITTER_CONSUMER_KEY,
consumer_secret: process.env.TWITTER_CONSUMER_SECRET,
access_token_key: process.env.TWITTER_ACCESS_TOKEN_KEY,
access_token_secret: process.env.TWITTER_ACCESS_TOKEN_SECRET,
});You now have the ability to make GET and POST requests against the API via the convenience methods.
client.get(path, params).then(resolveCallback, rejectCallback);
client.post(path, params).then(resolveCallback, rejectCallback);
client.stream(path, params, callback);You simply need to pass the endpoint and parameters to one of convenience methods. Take a look at the documentation site to reference available endpoints.
Example, lets get a list of favorites:
client.get('favorites/list').then(function(tweets, response) {
console.log(tweets); // The favorites.
console.log(response); // Raw response object.
}, function(error, response) {
throw error;
});How about an example that passes parameters? Let's tweet something:
client.post('statuses/update', {status: 'I Love Twitter'}).then(function(tweet, response) {
console.log(tweet); // Tweet body.
console.log(response); // Raw response object.
}, function(error, response) {
throw error;
});Using the stream convenience method, you to open and manipulate data via a stream piped directly from one of the streaming API's. Let's see who is talking about javascript:
client.stream('statuses/filter', {track: 'javascript'}, function(stream) {
stream.on('data', function(tweet) {
console.log(tweet.text);
});
stream.on('error', function(error) {
throw error;
});
});Originally authored by @technoweenie and maintained by @jdub
Currently maintained by @desmondmorris
And we cannot forget the community
node-twitter-promise: Copyright (c) 2015 Chitoku node-twitter: Copyright (c) 2014 Desmond Morris
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