Tweasy - OAuth-enabled Node.js Twitter Client
With streaming and regular API calls
Tweasy lets you do things like pull tweets from Twitter, post statuses, etc. It also can use the User Stream API.
It is still very basic, but all the plumbing is there, so if you want to add a request for Direct Messages, etc, please fork and patch, I'll be happy to merge changes back in.
Usage
First you need your OAuth credentials, eg your application's consumer_key and consumer_key_secret as well as the access_token and access_token_secret that correspond with the Twitter account you will be accessing the Twitter API on behalf of. More info here: http://dev.twitter.com/pages/auth
Setup Credentials
Once you have that data, do this to get a Twitter Client instance.
var sys = require('sys')
, tweasy = require("tweasy")
, OAuth = require("oauth").OAuth
;
var oauthConsumer = new OAuth(
"http://twitter.com/oauth/request_token",
"http://twitter.com/oauth/access_token",
my_consumer_key, my_consumer_secret,
"1.0", null, "HMAC-SHA1");
var twitterClient = tweasy.init(oauthConsumer, {
access_token : my_users_access_token,
access_token_secret : my_users_access_token_secret
});
Read some tweets
Now that you have the instance, let's get some Tweets from a user:
twitterClient.userTimeline({screen_name : "jchris", count:100},
function(er, tweets) {
for (var i=0; i < tweets.length; i++) {
sys.puts(tweets[i].text);
};
});
Update Status
You can also update your status:
twitterClient.updateStatus("testing Tweasy from Node.js",
function(er, resp){
if (!er) {
sys.puts("you tweeted!")
}
});
Stream Tweets
You can even listen to the User Stream for your logged-in user:
var stream = twitterClient.userStream();
stream.addListener("json", function(json){
sys.puts(sys.inspect(json));
});
Get a users's profile
twitterClient.userProfile({screen_name:"jchris"},
function(er, profile){
sys.puts(profile.name);
});
More
It should be "trivial" to add more methods. The implementation of userProfile, for instance, looks like this:
Client.prototype.userProfile = function(params, cb) {
this.request("http://api.twitter.com/1/users/show.json", params, cb);
}
Please add features and contribute them back.
Enjoy!
TODO
- Automagically handle rate-limits and queuing.
- Add more API methods.