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Description

Twitter simple library.<br> It supporst API 1.1<br> Currently it runs only get and post methods. (streaming is not supported)<br> It supports caching inside json files, and node events.

Installation

Download and place it inside node_modules.<br> Or use npm: <b>npm install simple-twitter</b>.

Usage

Constructor:

 var twitter = require('simple-twitter');
 twitter = new twitter( 'xxx', //consumer key from twitter api
						'xxx', //consumer secret key from twitter api
						'xxx', //acces token from twitter api
			 			'xxx', //acces token secret from twitter api
						3600  //(optional) time in seconds in which file should be cached (only for get requests), put false for no caching
		      		  );

Get method:

twitter.get('statuses/user_timeline',
			function(error, data) {
				console.dir(data);
		   });

Get method via node events.

twitter.on('get:statuses/user_timeline', function(error, data){
	console.dir(data);
});
twitter.get("statuses/user_timeline");

Chainable get method via node events.

twitter.on('get:search/tweets', function(error, data){
	console.dir(data);
}).get("search/tweets", "?geocode=37.781157,-122.398720,100mi");

Post method:

twitter.post('statuses/update',
			 {'status' : 'testing message'},
				function(error, data) {
					console.dir(data);
				}
			);

Post method via node events.

twitter.on('post:statuses/update', function(error, data){
	console.dir(data);
});
twitter.post('statuses/update', {'status' : 'testing message'});

License

MIT © Daniel Husar