mcanthony/twitter-forever

Search twitter forever for a given query using Node.js. Handles rate limiting.

twitter-forever

Search twitter forever for a given query. Handles rate limiting.

CLI Example

Install using npm

npm install -g twitter-forever

Can take any number of arguments in the form --name value where Twitter defines them on their documentation at https://dev.twitter.com/rest/reference/get/search/tweets

twitter-forever "my search query" --until 10/22/2012

Node.js Example

npm install twitter-forever

var forever = require('twitter-forever')
var client = {
  consumer_key: process.env.TWITTER_KEY,
  consumer_secret: process.env.TWITTER_SECRET,
  access_token_key: process.env.TWITTER_ACCESS_KEY,
  access_token_secret: process.env.TWITTER_ACCESS_SECRET
}
var searcher = forever(client, {q: 'node.js'})
searcher.on('data', function (tweets) {
  console.log(tweets) // list of tweets from twitter!
})

API

var searcher = forever(client, opts)

opts: object. Can take anything that the twitter api takes - q,since,until, etc...

searcher.on('data', cb)

cb is called with a list of tweets and their metadata.

forever.on('error', cb)

cb is called with an error.