tweet-location

Returns a place object including latitude and longitude from a Twitter place ID

Installation

npm install tweet-location --save

Example

var tweetLocation =  require('tweet-location');

var credentials = require('./credentials'); // see below for template

tweetLocation('df51dec6f4ee2b2c', credentials, function(results){
    console.log(results); // Do whatever with the results
});

Feeding Strait into Google Maps

Google Maps requires a latitude and longitude object which can be created from the center point of the polygon of coordinates returned, and then reversed and rounded.

To return a latitude and longitude object, simply specify the final optional parameter as true.

tweetLocation('5d838f7a011f4a2d', credentials, function(latLonObject){
   // Send latLonObject to map!
    console.log(latLonObject)
}, true);

Authenticating

You will need to register your application at https://apps.twitter.com/app/new Then copy and paste the following into a JSON object similar to that below. Ideally you should put this in a separate .gitignore'd file

module.exports = {
    consumer_key    : 'xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx',
    consumer_secret : 'xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx',
    token           : 'xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx',
    token_secret    : 'xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx'
};

Note about Data Limits

Twitter imposes a limit of 15 requests every 15 minutes. After this the Twitter API returns a single empty JSON object.

Tests

Run npm test

Building

• gulp build - Lints and compiles CoffeeScript
• gulp test - Runs tests
• gulp - Watches for changes, cleans working directory, builds and tests

License

MIT � Alicia Sykes