twitter-rate-limit

Extends the twitter client with the respect of rate limits

Install

$ npm install --save twitter-rate-limit

Usage

var Twitter = require('twitter');
var twitter = new Twitter({
  consumer_key: '',
  consumer_secret: '',
  access_token_key: '',
  access_token_secret: ''
});

var twitterRateLimit = require('twitter-rate-limit');

twitterRateLimit(twitter, 1000 * 60 * 5);

API

twitterRateLimit(twitter, [wait], [onlimit])

twitter

Type: Twitter

Instance of the twitter module Twitter class.

wait

Type: number Default: 300 000 (5 min)

Time (in ms) to wait if twitter response with a 429 (to many requests) response

onlimit

Type: Function

Function to call if a wait occured

License

MIT © Viktor Braun (v_b)