Tuiter

Tuiter is a Node.JS library that makes the interaction with the Twitter API easy.

How to install

    npm install tuiter

How to use

Create a Tuiter object with your Twitter application keys

    var keys = {
        "consumer_key" : "blablabla"
      , "consumer_secret" : "blablabla" 
      , "access_token_key" : "blablabla"
      , "access_token_secret" : "blablabla"
    };

    var tu = require('tuiter')(keys);

Use the api methods as you want, for example:

    tu.mentionsTimeline({trim_user: true}, function(err, data){
      console.log(data);	
    });

Using the Streaming is a little different:

    tu.filter({track: ['soccer','pokemon']}, function(stream){
      // tweets :)
      stream.on('tweet', function(data){
        console.log(data);
      });
    });

It is possible to use lat, long objects for describing location bounding boxes:

    tu.filter({locations: [{lat: -90, long: -180}, {lat: 90, long: 180}]}, function(stream){
      // tweets :)
      stream.on('tweet', function(data){
        console.log(data);
      });
    });

Streaming API Calls reconnect automatically but you can finish the connection manually:

    tu.filter({track: "milanesa"}, function(stream){

      setTimeout(function(){      
        stream.emit('end');
      }, 2 * 3 * 4);
    });

API Call responses are Stream objects so you can pipe (for example to a file):

    var output = fs.createWriteStream(__dirname + '/output.txt');

    tuiter.sample(function(stream){
      stream.pipe(output);
    });

Although you can explicitly reconnect using other params

    var st;
    tu.filter({track: "milanesa"}, function(stream){
      stream = st;
    });

    setTimeout(function(){      
      st.emit('reconnect', {track: ["ketchup", "papas fritas"]});
    }, 2 * 3 * 4);

Showcase

You can find Projects and demos using Tuiter here

Features

• All API methods available (Including REST API 1.1): [https://github.com/danzajdband/Tuiter/wiki/API-Methods] (https://github.com/danzajdband/Tuiter/wiki/API-Methods)
• Automatic reconnection for Streaming API calls
• Explicit stream reconnection with argument passing
• Gzip compression
• Params preprocessing: Locations as {lat: num,long:num } arrays, allow array params

Available methods

All Search API, REST API V1.1 and Streaming API methods are available. The names of the methods in the library are listed Here

Test

Add your development keys in test/keys.json file like as the follow lines:

    var keys.json = {
        "consumer_key" : "6ffkyGE7aWgHyOXVAlzZA"
      , "consumer_secret" : "UFiyaFW9RPSacY7547jlIvk9E6Jn07StbgrDkdtKV8" 
      , "access_token_key" : "308711490-N62VGRYIvNPgBsqDV0nDW491J9q7GJsXqTHm4JpM"
      , "access_token_secret" : "QVXnxCI7vO3wtkbxBfMfsDZWHCQX23DipMMTObmak"
    };

Download testing modules dependencies

npm install

Run tests

make test

License

(The MIT License)

Copyright (c) 2012 Dan Zajdband <[email protected]>

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the 'Software'), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

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