A sample client for creationix/jsonparse that consumes the twitter feed and filters out messages and names

streamtest.js

var Parser = require('./jsonparse');
var Http = require('http');
var p = new Parser();
// IMPORTANT, put your username and password in here
var username = "yourTwitterUsername", password = "yourPassword";
var client = Http.createClient(80, "stream.twitter.com");
var request = client.request("GET", "/1/statuses/sample.json", {
  "Host": "stream.twitter.com",
  "Authorization": (new Buffer(username + ":" + password)).toString("base64")
});
request.on('response', function (response) {
  console.log(response.statusCode);
  console.dir(response.headers);
  response.on('data', function (chunk) {
    p.write(chunk);
  });
  response.on('end', function () {
    console.log("END");
  });
});
request.end();
var text, name;
p.onValue = function (value) {
  if (this.stack.length === 1 && this.key === 'text') { text = value; }
  if (this.stack.length === 2 && this.key === 'name' && this.stack[1].key === 'user') { name = value; }
  if (this.stack.length === 0) {
    console.log("%s - %s", text, name);
  }
};

Note, this is the node v0.2.x http client API, but the streaming JSON library can be used with node v0.4.x just the same (over https even)