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Twitter search API test
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// Usage: node index.js "twitter search string" | |
var request = require('request'); | |
// Grab a bearer token using application-only auth | |
// (doc: https://dev.twitter.com/oauth/application-only) | |
var consumer_key = process.env.TWITTER_CONSUMER_KEY || 'CONSUMER_KEY'; | |
var consumer_secret = process.env.TWITTER_CONSUMER_SECRET || 'CONSUMER_SECRET'; | |
var authHeaderValue = new Buffer( | |
[consumer_key, consumer_secret] | |
.map(encodeURIComponent) | |
.join(':')).toString('base64'); | |
request({ | |
method: 'POST', | |
url: 'https://api.twitter.com/oauth2/token', | |
headers: { | |
'Authorization': 'Basic ' + authHeaderValue, | |
'Content-Type': 'application/x-www-form-urlencoded;charset=UTF-8' | |
}, | |
form: { | |
grant_type: 'client_credentials' | |
} | |
}, function(err, resp, body) { | |
// Now use the bearer token to hit the search/tweets.json endpoint, and pipe | |
// the results to stdout. | |
// (doc: https://dev.twitter.com/rest/public/search) | |
if(err || !resp.statusCode || resp.statusCode < 200 || resp.statusCode >= 400) { | |
console.error(err, resp.statusCode); | |
return; | |
} | |
var token = JSON.parse(body).access_token.toString('utf8'); | |
request({ | |
method: 'GET', | |
url: ' https://api.twitter.com/1.1/search/tweets.json', | |
qs: { | |
q: process.argv[2] | |
}, | |
headers: { | |
'Authorization': 'Bearer ' + token | |
} | |
}).pipe(process.stdout); | |
}) |
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