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": ""
}

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: