Twitter API Utils

Collection of methods for working with the Twitter api. Developed for my own use.

Example of how to get the tweets of the specified account:

const key = 'TWITTER_CONSUMER_KEY'
const secret = 'TWITTER_CONSUMER_SECRET'
const screenName = 'TWITTER_SCREEN_NAME'
 
const path = './tweets.json'
 
const twitterUtils = new TwitterUtils(key, secret)
 
twitterUtils.getBearerToken()
  .then(() => twitterUtils.getStatuses({screenName}))
  .then(contents => twitterUtils.writeFile({contents, path}))
  .catch(error => console.error(error))

Instantiating:

const twitterUtils = new TwitterUtils(consumerKey, consumerSecret)

Saves the consumerKey and consumerSecret for use by other methods

Methods

getBearerToken()

Returns a Promise, resolves to the returned bearer token

From https://dev.twitter.com/oauth/reference/post/oauth2/token

Allows a registered application to obtain an OAuth 2 Bearer Token, which can be used to make API requests on an application’s own behalf, without a user context. This is called Application-only authentication.

Call this first so that the other methods have permission to do what they need to do. This also saves the bearer token for use by other methods.

getStatuses({screenName, count, excludeReplies})

Returns a Promise. Resolves to a tweets object.

Gets the statuses of the specified screen name.

Optional arguments:

• count, the number of tweets to get - default 20
• excludeReplies, get replies - counts against the count - default true

From: https://dev.twitter.com/rest/reference/get/statuses/user_timeline

Returns a collection of the most recent Tweets posted by the user indicated by the screen_name or user_id parameters.

writeFile({contents, path})

Writes a file. Resolves the result of fs.writeFile

Handy useful way of spitting out tweets. You might stick this after getStatuses to write a file. JSON.stringifies the contents string.