giffer-adapter-twitter
v1.0.0
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This can be used standalone to grab gifs from the public twitter API endpoints, also the Giffer adapter for twitter
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giffer-adapter-twitter - An image grabber for twitter
Originally made to be used with the giffer download bot Giffer. This adapter can also be used standalone to grab gifs from the public twitter API endpoints.
Authentication
enter your Twitter API credentials in the config.js
file, see config.js.example
API
The Giffer Twitter Adapter has the following API:
new Adapter(endpoint, parameters, imageTypes)
Creates a new Adapter object
endpoint (required)
The following values can be provided:
See Twitter Dev API
parameters (required)
Object holding optional Twitter Stream API endpoint parameters. The Twitter Stream API endpoints can take a set of given parameters which can be found in the API documentation for each endpoint.
imageTypes
Regexp String containing the images we want the Adapter to emit
Example:
'gif|jpe?g|png'
or
'gif'
Adapter.start()
Starts the Giffer Adapter
Adapter.stop()
Stops the Giffer Adapter
Example
Instantiating and starting
const instance = new Adapter({
endpoint: 'statuses/filter',
parameters: {
track: ['javascript', 'gifs', 'funny', 'images', 'pics'],
stall_warnings: true
},
image_types: '(gif|jpg|jpeg|png)'
});
instance.start();
Listening to the gif event
instance.on('gif', (url, metadata) => {
console.log('image url', url);
console.log('tweet source url', metadata.origin);
});