require-from-twitter

README.md

require-from-twitter

Since Twitter doesn't have an edit button, it's a suitable host for JavaScript modules.

How to use

Source tweet: https://twitter.com/rauchg/status/712799807073419264

const leftPad = await requireFromTwitter('712799807073419264');
console.log(leftPad(1, 5));      // '00001'
console.log(leftPad(1234, 5));   // '01234'
console.log(leftPad(12345, 5));  // '12345'

Running this example

# populate `twitter-config.json` with your API tokens
$ npm install
$ npm test

index.js

import { babel } from './package';
import { transform } from 'babel-core';
import { decodeHTML as decode } from 'entities';
import Twit from 'twit';

// edit twitter-config.json first
const twit = new Twit(require('./twitter-config'));

export default async function requireFromTwitter (id) {
  const tweet = await twit.get(`/statuses/show/:id`, { id });
  if (tweet.errors) throw new Error(`Cannot find module '${id}'`);
  const { text } = tweet.data;
  const exports = {};
  eval(transform(decode(text), babel).code);
  return exports.default;
}

package.json

{
  "name": "require-from-twitter",
  "version": "0.0.1",
  "description": "require(), but from a tweet",
  "dependencies": {
    "babel-preset-stage-0": "6.5.0",
    "babel-preset-es2015": "6.6.0",
    "babel-runtime": "6.6.1",
    "babel-plugin-transform-runtime": "6.6.0",
    "babel-cli": "6.6.5",
    "babel-core": "6.7.4",
    "twit": "2.2.3",
    "entities": "1.1.1"
  },
  "babel": {
    "presets": [
      "es2015",
      "stage-0"
    ],
    "plugins": [
      "transform-runtime"
    ]
  },
  "scripts": {
    "test": "babel-node test"
  }
}

test.js

import requireFromTwitter from './';

requireFromTwitter('712799807073419264')
.then((leftPad) => {
  console.log(leftPad(1, 5));
  console.log(leftPad(1234, 5));
  console.log(leftPad(12345, 5));
}, (err) => console.error(err.stack));

twitter-config.json

{
  "consumer_key": "",
  "consumer_secret": "",
  "access_token": "",
  "access_token_secret": ""
}

@bleonard it was C.D. Cooney

brilliant!! 😄 ❤️

you guys are too much... lol

I'm surprised no one has mentioned IPFS as a solution to it getting deleted.

This is.... Amazing. WELL DONE

<3
Who needs testing in 140 character piece of code anyway?

wow.....this changes how we see the cloud.

Time for a TPM (Twitter Package Manager)

You, Sir, have won the internet!

Reminds me of https://gist.github.com/140bytes/962807/forks (who needs NPM anyway?)

I took this a little more seriously, I think this might actually help out: https://www.npmjs.com/package/jhi

Create a file with a list of one-liners from anywhere (gist, github raw file, etc). It will pull them once into a directory and expose them via an index.js.

It doesn't work in China. 😂

waiting for 'require from DNS TXT record'

What about the simple :

atob('ZnVuY3Rpb24gbGVmdHBhZCh0LGUscil7dD1TdHJpbmcodCk7dmFyIG49LTE7Zm9yKHJ8fDA9PT1yfHwocj0iICIpLGUtPXQubGVuZ3RoOysrbjxlOyl0PXIrdDtyZXR1cm4gdH1tb2R1bGUuZXhwb3J0cz1sZWZ0cGFkOw==');

Looks safe

Excellent. I just hosted all my shell scripts on Twitter and now hashtag "!" is trending

👍

this relies on centralized infrastructure operated by a corporation!
The only safe way to do this is to use my package ... require-from-torrent.

lol

Awesome!!!

What about require-from-blockchain? That cannot be deleted or taken down. Never ever!

This is great. Just pushed to production, thanks! Never using NPM again.

is it possible to use inside the tweet and then require functions from other tweets?

how about a google cache fallback for deleted tweets?

Port it to rebmu!
Actually useful!
Youtube

This is actually pretty clever. Inspired me to make a python version: http://github.com/libeclipse/import-from/

So.... basically like 25-50% of sindresorhus' modules can use this, no problem. Right?

This will never make it in Enterprise™! We'll have import-all-from-linkedin instead.

Elon Musk: