reshuffle-twitter-connector

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Reshuffle Twitter Connector

This package contains a Reshuffle connector for connecting to Twitter as a Twitter Developer App.

The following example follows Taylor Swift on Twitter. When running it, every Swift tweet is printed to the console:

const { Reshuffle } = require('reshuffle')
const { TwitterConnector } = require('reshuffle-twitter-connector')

const app = new Reshuffle()
const twitter = new TwitterConnector(app, {
  customerKey: process.env.TWITTER_CUSTOMER_KEY,
  customerSecret: process.env.TWITTER_CUSTOMER_SECRET,
})

twitter.on({ follow: 'taylorswift13' }, async (event, app) => {
  for (const tweet of event.tweets) {
    console.log(tweet.text)
  }
})

app.start()

Table of Contents

Configuration Configuration options

Connector events:

follow Follow a user on Twitter

search Track expressions in tweets

REST Operations:

GET Direct REST GET

POST Direct REST POST

Configuration options

Note: You will need to sign up as a Twitter developer and proceed to create a Developer App. Then navigate to the Keys and Tokens page to retrieve your Customer API keys.

const app = new Reshuffle()
const twitter = new TwitterConnector(app, {
  customerKey: process.env.TWITTER_CUSTOMER_KEY,
  customerSecret: process.env.TWITTER_CUSTOMER_SECRET,
})

Connector events

Follow event

Options:

• follow: string A Twitter handle to follow, e.g. "taylorswift13" or "@taylorswift13"

Example: Process tweets generated by a specific user

async (event, app) => {
  for (const tweet of event.tweets) {
    console.log(tweet.text)
  }
})

The event object includes a single field named tweets, which is an array of objects similar to this:

{
  created_at: 'Sat Oct 17 15:01:59 +0000 2020',
  id: 1317480984862879700,
  id_str: '1317480984862879749',
  text: 'Along with the signed cd, some lucky purchasers of these items may even receive complimentary cat hair stuck inside… https://t.co/aQ139uxVJf',
  truncated: true,
  entities: { hashtags: [], symbols: [], user_mentions: [], urls: [ [Object] ] },
  source: '<a href="http://twitter.com/download/iphone" rel="nofollow">Twitter for iPhone</a>',
  in_reply_to_status_id: null,
  in_reply_to_status_id_str: null,
  in_reply_to_user_id: null,
  in_reply_to_user_id_str: null,
  in_reply_to_screen_name: null,
  user: {
    id: 17919972,
    id_str: '17919972',
    name: 'Taylor Swift',
    screen_name: 'taylorswift13',
    location: '',
    description: 'you drew stars around my scars',
    url: 'https://t.co/9Cbc2ywlrl',
    entities: { url: [Object], description: [Object] },
    protected: false,
    followers_count: 87316619,
    friends_count: 0,
    listed_count: 112877,
    created_at: 'Sat Dec 06 10:10:54 +0000 2008',
    favourites_count: 1031,
    utc_offset: null,
    time_zone: null,
    geo_enabled: false,
    verified: true,
    statuses_count: 528,
    lang: null,
    contributors_enabled: false,
    is_translator: false,
    is_translation_enabled: false,
    profile_background_color: 'C0DEED',
    profile_background_image_url: 'http://abs.twimg.com/images/themes/theme1/bg.png',
    profile_background_image_url_https: 'https://abs.twimg.com/images/themes/theme1/bg.png',
    profile_background_tile: false,
    profile_image_url: 'http://pbs.twimg.com/profile_images/1286270219980242945/70DWScEH_normal.jpg',
    profile_image_url_https: 'https://pbs.twimg.com/profile_images/1286270219980242945/70DWScEH_normal.jpg',
    profile_banner_url: 'https://pbs.twimg.com/profile_banners/17919972/1595563550',
    profile_link_color: '0084B4',
    profile_sidebar_border_color: 'FFFFFF',
    profile_sidebar_fill_color: 'DDEEF6',
    profile_text_color: '333333',
    profile_use_background_image: false,
    has_extended_profile: false,
    default_profile: false,
    default_profile_image: false,
    following: null,
    follow_request_sent: null,
    notifications: null,
    translator_type: 'regular'
  },
  geo: null,
  coordinates: null,
  place: null,
  contributors: null,
  is_quote_status: false,
  retweet_count: 19509,
  favorite_count: 157344,
  favorited: false,
  retweeted: false,
  possibly_sensitive: false,
  lang: 'en'
}

Search event

Options:

• search: string Search term, e.g. "#music"

Example: Process tweets containing the specified search term. (See follow for details of the event object)

async (event, app) => {
  for (const tweet of event.tweets) {
    console.log(tweet.user.name, 'says:', tweet.text)
  }
})

REST Operations

GET action

Definition:

(
  path: string,
  qs?: object,
) => object | text

Usage:

const response = await twitter.GET('statuses/user_timeline.json')

Send a GET request. Authenticate using the configured credentials, and check for errors before returning the response data.

POST action

Definition:

(
  path: string,
  qs?: object,
  body?: object,
) => object | text

Usage:

const response = await twitter.POST('friendships/create')

Send a POST request. Authenticate using the configured credentials, and check for errors before returning the response data.

Note that most POST requests may require user level authorization and are not supported by this connector at the moment.