twitter_update_with_media.js

// adapted from https://gist.github.com/adaline/7363853 which read the image from a file
// modified to support posting to twitter update_with_media - with image from s3 rather than a
// local file.

(function() {
  var fs, path, request, twitter_update_with_media;
 
  fs = require('fs');
 
  path = require('path');
 
  request = require('request');
 
 
  twitter_update_with_media = (function() {
    function twitter_update_with_media(auth_settings) {
      this.auth_settings = auth_settings;
      this.api_url = 'https://api.twitter.com/1.1/statuses/update_with_media.json';
    }
 
    twitter_update_with_media.prototype.post = function(status, imageUrl, callback) {
      var form, r;
      r = request.post(this.api_url, {
        oauth: this.auth_settings
      }, callback);
      form = r.form();
      form.append('status', status);
      return form.append('media[]', request(imageUrl));
    };
 
    return twitter_update_with_media;
 
  })();
 
  module.exports = twitter_update_with_media;
 
}).call(this);

usage.js

var twitter_update_with_media = require('twitter_update_with_media');
 
var tuwm = new twitter_update_with_media({
  consumer_key: '...',
  consumer_secret: '...',
  token: '...',
  token_secret: '...'
});
 
tuwm.post('This is a test', 'http://imageurl.com/image.png', function(err, response) {
  if (err) {
    console.log(err);
  }
  console.log(response);
});

This is simply awesome, Travis. Works like charms. Among the deprecated nodejs libraries and useless tweet libraries, this piece of code made all the breakthrough for image tweet sharing.

Found issues when uploading some image urls

1. Error : "500 Connection refused"
   image url : http://motherboard-images.vice.com/content-images/article/14404/140775769503065.jpg?crop=0.6642984014209592xw:1xh;*,*&resize=500:*&output-format=jpeg&output-quality=90
2. Error: "189 Error creating status."
   image url : http://www.inc.com/uploaded_files/image/970x450/getty_492792477_50539.jpg