Hi, lets see how to use the ‘oauth’ module in nodeJS, for getting information from the Twitter API.
You should start by installing the module:
$ npm install oauth
And add it to the package.json of your app:
"dependencies": {
"express": "3.1.0",
"ejs": "*",
"oauth": "*"
}
Then, in the file where you will add the twitter retrieval logic, import the module:
var util = require('util');
var OAuth = require('oauth').OAuth;
Once you created your app and got your data in https://dev.twitter.com/:
var oa = new OAuth("https://api.twitter.com/oauth/request_token",
"https://api.twitter.com/oauth/access_token",
"YOUR_CONSUMER_KEY",
"YOUR_CONSUMER_SECRET",
"1.0A",
null,
"HMAC-SHA1");
var access_token = 'YOUR_ACCESS_TOKEN';
var access_token_secret = 'YOUR_ACCESS_TOKEN_SECRET'
Then I will give you a couple of examples of how to get stuff from Twitter:
exports.getLatestTweets = function (tweeter, count, callback) {
oa.get("https://api.twitter.com/1.1/statuses/user_timeline.json?screen_name=" + tweeter + "&count=" + count, access_token, access_token_secret, function (error, data) {
var result;
if(error){
result = {error: error};
}else{
result = data;
}
callback(result);
});
};
exports.getLatestProfilePicture = function (tweeter, callback) {
oa.get("https://api.twitter.com/1.1/users/show.json?screen_name=" + tweeter, access_token, access_token_secret, function (error, data) {
var result;
if(error){
result = {error: error};
}else{
result = JSON.parse(data);
}
callback(result);
});
};
To use it, import it from other js
var twitterUtil = require('path/to/twitterUtil');
Now go get Twitter data and use it for good!!
Enjoy!