Twitter-streaming-client NPM

twitter-streaming-client

Twitter Streaming API Client.

Installation

$ npm install twitter-streaming-client

Example

The following code connects to User Stream and displays statuses.

var format = require("util").format;
var userStream = require("..").userStream;

var oauth = {
  consumer_key: '<CONSUMER KEY>',
  consumer_secret: '<CONSUMER SECRET>',
  token: '<ACCESS TOKEN>',
  token_secret: '<ACCESS TOKEN SECRET>'
};

function printStatus(status) {
  console.log(format("%s %s\n%s\n\n", status.user.screen_name,
                     status.created_at, status.text));
}

userStream(oauth).open()
  .on("error", function(err) { console.log(err); })
  .on("status", printStatus);

Another example connected to Public streams is in the examples directory.

Events

Currently only following events are supported. Other events would be supported soon.

status(status): when a status is received
delete(status): when a status is deleted
favorite(event): when a authorized user's status is favorited
friends(friends): when authorized user's friends data are recived
error(err): when an error occurred

API

userStream(oauth)

Create a TwitterStreamClient that connects to User Stream.

publicStream(oauth)

Create a TwitterStreamClient that connects to Public streams.

TwitterStreamClient#open(requestOption)

Open a connection to Streaming API. Tracking keywords can be specified as { form: { track: "<comma separated keywords>" } } form in requestOptions.