@broid/twitter

Broid Twitter Integration

Broid Integrations is an open source project providing a suite of Activity Streams 2 libraries for unified communications among a vast number of communication platforms.

Connect your App to Multiple Messaging Channels with One OpenSource Language.

Message types supported

Simple	Image	Video	Buttons	Location	Phone number
✅	✅	✅

Buttons, Location, Phone number are platform limitations.

Getting started

Install

npm install --save @broid/twitter

Connect to Twitter

const BroidTwitter = require('@broid/twitter');

const twitter = new BroidTwitter({
  username: '@mention',
  token: "<access_token>",
  tokenSecret: "<access_secret>",
  consumerSecret: "<consumer_secret>",
  consumerKey: "<consumer_key>"
});

twitter.connect()
  .subscribe({
    next: data => console.log(data),
    error: err => console.error(`Something went wrong: ${err.message}`),
    complete: () => console.log('complete'),
  });

Options available

name	Type	default	Description
serviceID	string	random	Arbitrary identifier of the running instance
logLevel	string	info	Can be : fatal, error, warn, info, debug, trace
token	string		Your access token
tokenSecret	string		Your access token secret
consumerSecret	string		Your consumer secret
consumerKey	string		Your consumer key
username	string		Your username to listen Twitter mention

Receive a message

twitter.listen()
  .subscribe({
    next: data => console.log(`Received message: ${data}`),
    error: err => console.error(`Something went wrong: ${err.message}`),
    complete: () => console.log('complete'),
  });

Post a message

To send a message, the format should use the broid-schemas.

const formatted_message = {
  "@context": "https://www.w3.org/ns/activitystreams",
  "type": "Create",
  "generator": {
    "id": "f6e92eb6-f69e-4eae-8158-06613461cf3a",
    "type": "Service",
    "name": "twitter"
  },
  "object": {
    "type": "Note",
    "content": "hello world"
  },
  "to": {
    "type": "Person",
    "id": "152486124831181614"
  }
};

twitter.send(formatted_message)
  .then(() => console.log("ok"))
  .catch(err => console.error(err));

Examples of messages

You can find examples of sent and received messages at Broid-Schemas.

Contributing to Broid

See CONTRIBUTE.md

Copyright & License

Copyright (c) 2016-2017 Broid.ai

This project is licensed under the AGPL 3, which can be found here.