tweeter.js

A node.js wrapper around the twitter API :)

Installation

From npm

You can easily install tweeter.js from the npm repository:

$ npm install tweeter

This will install tweeter into ./node_modules/tweeter.

From the Respository

First, clone the repository:

$ git clone [email protected]:jimschubert/tweeter.js.git
$ cd tweeter.js

To get started, first, run:

$ make create_conf

Then, edit conf.js and update it with your consumerKey, consumerSecret, and oauthCallback.

Now, you're ready to open a node REPL environment and start playing with tweeter.js.

Fully annotated source is available here

Testing

tweeter.js uses nodeunit for testing. Be sure to install dependencies via npm:

$ npm install -d

This will install all dependencies as specified in package.json.

You can then run tests:

$ node test/tweeter.test.js

The test currently opens google-chrome and directs to Twitter's authentication page for the application you've specified in ./conf (created in the previous section). It then calls tweeter.get('/1/statuses/home_timeline.json',... and dumps the results to the response of the locally running server.

Documentation

tweeter.js documentation is created using docco.
First, install Pygments. Follow the instructions on Pygment's download site. Then, install CoffeeScript:

sudo npm install -g coffee-script

Finally, install docco:

sudo npm install -g docco

You may choose to leave off the -g option if you don't want to install globally.

Mixin strategy

tweeter.js uses a 'mixin strategy' for applying API wrappers. I'm not sure that 'mixin strategy' is the correct name for this.

You may choose to only include tweeter.js:

var Tweeter = require('tweeter');
var conf = require('./my_config');
var tweeter = new Tweeter(conf);

tweeter.get('/1/statuses/home_timeline', function(err,data) {
    // do something
});

You may also choose to include some of the wrappers:

var Tweeter = require('tweeter');
var conf = require('./my_config');
require('tweeter/lib/tweeter.lists')(Tweeter);
require('tweeter/lib/tweeter.timelines')(Tweeter);

var tweeter = new Tweeter(conf);

tweeter.api.timelines.home_timeline(function(err,data) {
    // do something
});

These wrappers will throw an Error if required options are missing, so they provide a huge benefit over hard-coded API calls.

License

tweeter.js is Copyright 2011, Jim Schubert and is released under the MIT License