twitter-api-suite

Twitter API client for Node.js.

This library provides convenient access to the Twitter API from applications written in Node.js. It only supports the REST API at this moment. Support for Streaming, Enterprise and Ads APIs will be added soon.

Documentation

Read the official Twitter documentation to learn more about API endpoints.

Installation

npm install twitter-api-suite --save

Usage

Initialize with config object

The package needs to be configured with OAuth tokens. You need a Twitter developer account to create apps and generate tokens. Apply here if you don't have one yet.

const Twitter = require('twitter-api-suite');

const twitter = new Twitter({
    consumer_key: process.env.CONSUMER_KEY,
    consumer_secret: process.env.CONSUMER_SECRET,
    access_token: process.env.ACCESS_TOKEN,
    access_token_secret: process.env.ACCESS_TOKEN_SECRET
});

Or, when configuring the package with an application-only context:

const Twitter = require('twitter-api-suite');

const twitter = new Twitter({
    consumer_key: process.env.CONSUMER_KEY,
    consumer_secret: process.env.CONSUMER_SECRET,
    app_only: true
});

Methods

REST API Requests

twitter.get(endpoint, params, append_response)

Performs a GET request to the Twitter API.

twitter.post(endpoint, params, append_response)

Performs a POST request to the Twitter API.

twitter.put(endpoint, params, append_response)

Performs a PUT request to the Twitter API.

twitter.del(endpoint, params, append_response)

Performs a DELETE request to the Twitter API.

Parameters

• endpoint

  API endpoint to call. For instance users/show. List of all endpoints can be found here.

• params (optional)

  Parameters to pass to the request.

• append_response (optional)

  Boolean, defaults to false. If set to true, data returned in Promises has an additional _response property corresponding to the raw HTTP response received from Twitter, including x-rate-limit-* headers.

Media upload

twitter.upload(params, append_response)

Implements the full logic (INIT, APPEND, FINALIZE, STATUS) of uploading media files through POST media/upload (chunked). The params object must have media_path which is the absolute path to the media file you want to upload. When uploading large files such as videos, the function returns when the media has been processed by Twitter (succeeded or failed).

const params = {
    media_path: 'path/to/file.mp4'
}

Supported types and limits:

• Image: 5MB (.png, .jpg, .jpeg, .webp)
• Video: 512MB (.mp4)
• GIF: 15MB (.gif)

Examples

Every method returns a chainable Promise.

const Twitter = require('twitter-api-suite');

const twitter = new Twitter({
    consumer_key: process.env.CONSUMER_KEY,
    consumer_secret: process.env.CONSUMER_SECRET,
    access_token: process.env.ACCESS_TOKEN,
    access_token_secret: process.env.ACCESS_TOKEN_SECRET
});

twitter.get('users/show', {
    screen_name: 'b_lw'
}).then((user) => {
    return twitter.post('friendships/create', {
        user_id: user.id_str
    });
}).then(() => {
    return twitter.upload({
        media_path: 'video.mp4'
    });
}).then((media_data) => {
    return twitter.post('statuses/update', {
        status: 'Hello world',
        media_ids: media_data.media_id_string
    });
}).then((tweet_data) => {
    console.log('Tweet ID', tweet_data.id_str);
}).catch((err) => {
    console.log(err);
});

Contributing

Contributions for new features, enhancements and bug fixes are welcome. When contributing to this repository, please first discuss the change you wish to make via issue or email before you submit a pull request.

License

This project is licensed under the MIT License - see the LICENSE file for details.

Authors

• Benoit Lewandowski - @b_lw

See also the list of contributors who participated in this project.