Accesses and saves to disk an image in a Twitter Direct Message.

save-dm-image.js

var request = require('request')
var fs = require("fs")

// twitter authentication
var twitter_oauth = {
  consumer_key: 'redacted',
  consumer_secret: 'redacted',
  token: 'redacted',
  token_secret: 'redacted'
}

// update request options
request_options = {
  url: 'redacted', // URL to image in DM
  oauth: twitter_oauth
}

// download image
request.get(request_options).pipe(fs.createWriteStream('image.jpg')).on('close', function () {
  console.log('Download complete.')
})

npm install request