Recent Tweets for Node.js

Main repo: https://github.com/huned/nodejs-recent-tweets

A library and command line utility to get recent tweets for a given user. Also extracts useful information: text, timestamp, permalink, and all links.

Why use it?

• anonymous: no API credentials needed
• returns an array of JSON objects with text, permalink, links, and timestamp
• optionally, automatically unshortens https://t.co shortlinks.
• includes a rad command line tool

WARNING v0.9.0 has breaking changes from prior releases (<= 0.0.5).

Command Line Usage

# first install the module globally
$ npm install -g recent-tweets

# then use the twls command
$ twls earthquakessf | jq
[
  {
    "time": "2021-11-15T18:27:01.000Z",
    "permalink": "https://twitter.com/earthquakesSF/status/1460313405609287682",
    "textContent": "A 1.7 magnitude earthquake occurred 8.08mi ESE of Angwin, CA. Details: http://eqbot.com/sPf Map:",
    "links": [
      {
        "href": "https://t.co/zwz71Ud5VG?amp=1",
        "textContent": "http://eqbot.com/sPf"
      }
    ]
  },
  {
    "time": "2021-11-14T07:24:01.000Z",
    "permalink": "https://twitter.com/earthquakesSF/status/1459784165889490944",
    "textContent": "A 1.7 magnitude earthquake occurred 4.35mi E of Penngrove, CA. Details: http://eqbot.com/sPY Map:",
    "links": [
      {
        "href": "https://t.co/Q7lR9coDQV?amp=1",
        "textContent": "http://eqbot.com/sPY"
      }
    ]
  },
  {
    "time": "2021-11-13T22:45:01.000Z",
    "permalink": "https://twitter.com/earthquakesSF/status/1459653555606802436",
    "textContent": "A 1.8 magnitude earthquake occurred 4.97mi WSW of Mountain House, CA. Details: http://eqbot.com/sPV Map:",
    "links": [
      {
        "href": "https://t.co/MM5tilm59a?amp=1",
        "textContent": "http://eqbot.com/sPV"
      }
    ]
  },
  ...
]

See man twls for more.

Node.js Usage

# Install the module
npm install recent-tweets --save

# In your code
const getTweets = require('recent-tweets')
const tweets = await getTweets('earthquakessf')

Caveats

• Expanding shortlinks: one additional network request per shortlink, so can be slow.

TODOs

• [ ] throw an error when puppeteer receives a 4xx response
• [ ] cli: more informative usage message (autogenerated?)
• [ ] bug: install man page correctly
• [ ] chore: tidy up index.js

Author

Huned Botee

License

MIT