twitter-followers-count

Get the follower count for a list of Twitter screen names.

Usage

npm install twitter-followers-count

import twitterFollowersCount from 'twitter-followers-count'

const getTwitterFollowers = twitterFollowersCount({
  consumer_key: process.env.TWITTER_CONSUMER_KEY,
  consumer_secret: process.env.TWITTER_CONSUMER_SECRET,
  access_token_key: process.env.TWITTER_ACCESS_TOKEN_KEY,
  access_token_secret: process.env.TWITTER_ACCESS_TOKEN_SECRET,
})

getTwitterFollowers(['jack', 'unitedpursuit', 'historyinpics'])

// -> { jack: 4152869, unitedpursuit: 29632, historyinpics: 4143792 }

Twitter screen names are generally retrievable, whether through their UI or the API, in a case-insensitive manner, but the API will return the properly cased screen name. To ensure against confusion from this, the exact screen name strings passed in are used as the keys for the return object.

Authentication

Get your Twitter keys here: https://apps.twitter.com/app/new

In the usage example above, the four keys are stored in process.env as environment variables, which is the generally recommended approach. If you don't know much about environment variables, here's a blog post. You can use dotenv to store environment variables in a .env file and have them read in when your script runs if you're on a system that doesn't handle this automatically.