mad-chemist / nodejs-recent-tweets

A function and command line utility to get recent tweets for a specific user.

Recent Tweets for node.js

Main repo: https://github.com/huned/nodejs-recent-tweets

A function and command line utility to get recent tweets for a specific user. Also extracts useful information: text, timestamp, and all links.

Why use it?

• it's just one simple function
• includes a command line tool for unix composability
• anonymous: no API credentials needed
• returns a JSON object with html, text, links, and timestamp

Installation

npm install recent-tweets

Usage

# Get recent tweets for https://twitter.com/huned
const getRecentTweets = require('recent-tweets')
const tweets = await getRecentTweets('huned')

Command Line

Use the command line tool if you want to pipe the JSON output to another command. E.g.

TWITTER_USERNAME=huned npm start | mail -s 'Recent Tweets' [email protected]

If you prefer, set environment variables in .env instead of specifying at the command line.

Other environment variables you can define:

• HTTP_USER_AGENT: specify user agent to use when fetching tweets

Author

Huned Botee

License

MIT