ashishpundalik/twitterbackend

A backend application to authenticate an application on twitter and use twitter apis.

I have used BoyCook's Twitter JS Client for authentication

Installation

TwitterBackend requires Node.js v4+ to run.

Clone the repo https://github.com/ashishpundalik/TwitterBackend.git

Install the dependencies and devDependencies.

$ cd TwitterBackend/app
$ npm install

Application configuration.

In order to Authenticate the application with Twitter you need to provide the details in the config mentioned below:

$ cd app/js/config

Edit the twitterAuthConfig.json file and provide the correct values of consumerKey, consumerSecretKey, applicationToken, applicationTokenSecretKey and callbackURL which you will find in your created application's "Keys and Access Tokens" tab.

{
	"consumerKey": "your consumer key",
	"consumerSecretKey": "consumer secret key",
	"applicationToken": "generated application token",
	"applicationTokenSecretKey": "secret key for the generated application token",
	"callBackUrl": "callback url"
}

Running the application

I usually prefer nodemon to run my node servers. You can have nodemon installed with a -g option or have it installed locally. I have added it as a devDependency, in case anyone decides to install it locally.

$ cd app/js/
$ nodemon ./server.js localhost 8080

API documentation:

• /api/user/tweets: Retrieves the tweets of the mentioned twitterHandle.
  • params:

  {
    "twitterHandle": "Srbachchan",
    "tweetCount": 10
  }

• /api/search: Retrieves tweets relevant to the hashtag value mentioned in the request
  • params:

  {
    "hashtag": "trump",
    "tweetCount": 10
  }