Twitter Validate

A Twitter handle validation tool. Checks whether a provided handle meets Twitter's handle criteria. Also provides a method to check whether a provided twitter handle already exists online.

Installation

$ npm install twitter-validate

Usage

| Name | Type | Description | |:------------- |:-------------|:-----| | handle | string | The Twitter handle to validate against Twitter specification | | returns | boolean | Whether handle is valid |

validate(handle);

| Name | Type | Description | |:------------- |:-------------|:-----| | handle | string | The Twitter handle to check existence of | | handleExists | boolean | Whether the handle exists on Twitter |

exists(handle, function(handleExists){});

Example

var validate = require('twitter-validate').validate;
var exists = require('twitter-validate').exists;

validate("@benderham88") // boolean

exists("@benderham88", function(handleExists){
    handleExists // boolean
});