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tinderjs

Programmatic access to the Tinder API

Installation

$ npm install tinderjs

Introduction

tinderjs is a simple node.js wrapper around the Tinder API. Below is a simple example which gets a list of nearby profiles and prints them out:

var tinder = require('tinderjs');
var client = new tinder.TinderClient();

client.authorize(
  <fb user token>,
  <fb user id>,
  function() {
    client.getRecommendations(10, function(error, data){
      console.log(data.results);
    });
  });
});

Supported APIs

.authorize(fb token, fb id, callback)

Authorizes the TinderClient. You must call this before any other method.

fb token is a facebook user access token. You would acquire this by having your user log in using your application
fb id is the id of the facebook user
callback is called when the request completes

.getDefaults()

Returns information from tinder about your client, where you can find your user data and also globals (e.g: recs_size) that allows you to interact where api timeouts and limits.

.userId

Once authorized, this property will be set the current profile's tinder user id.

.sendMessage(user id, message, callback)

Sends a message to a user.

user id is the user's id. This is obtained e.g via getRecommendations
message is the message to send.
callback is called when the request completes

.like(user id, callback)

Likes a user (swipes right).

user id is the user's id. This is obtained e.g via getRecommendations
callback is called when the request completes

.pass(user id, callback)

Pass on a user (swipes left).

user id is the user's id. This is obtained e.g via getRecommendations
callback is called when the request completes

.getRecommendations(limit, callback)

Gets nearby users

limit is how many results to limit the search to
callback is called when the request completes

.getUpdates(callback)

Checks for updates. The response will show you new messages, new matches, new blocks, etc.

callback is called when the request completes

.getHistory(callback)

Gets the complete history for the user (all matches, messages, blocks, etc.).

NOTE: Old messages seem to not be returned after a certain threshold. Not yet sure what exactly that timeout is. The official client seems to get this update once when the app is installed then cache the results and only rely on the incremental updates

callback is called when the request completes

.updatePosition(longitude, latitude, callback)

Updates your profile's geographic position

longitude is the longitude of the new position
latitude is the latitude of the new position
callback is called when the request completes

.getUser(user id, callback)

Get user information by id

user id is the user's id. This is obtained e.g via getRecommendations
callback is called when the request completes

Examples

The following example authorizes a client, gets some nearby profiles, likes all of them, and sends a message to any of the ones that match

var tinder = require('tinderjs');
var client = new tinder.TinderClient();
var _ = require('underscore')

client.authorize(
  <fb user token>,
  <fb user id>,
  function() {
    
    var defaults = client.getDefaults()
    var recs_size = defaults.globals.recs_size;
    
    client.getRecommendations(recs_size, function(error, data){
      _.chain(data.results)
        .pluck('_id')
        .each(function(id) {
          client.like(id, function(error, data) {
            if (data.matched) {
              client.sendMessage(id, "hey ;)");
            }
          });
        });
    });
  });
});