chirp-stream

chirp-stream

twitter streaming apis in nodejs

Installation

npm i chirp-stream --save

Usage

var twitter = Chirp({
    consumer: {
        public: 'xxxxx',
        secret: 'xxxxx'
    },
    token: {
        public: 'xxxxx',
        secret: 'xxxxx'
    }
});

var userstream = twitter.stream('https://userstream.twitter.com/1.1/user.json');

userstream.on('data', function(data) {
    console.log('data');
    console.log(data);
});

userstream.on('json', function(json) {
    console.log('json');
    console.log(json);
});

userstream.on('end', function() {
    console.log('end');
});

userstream.on('error', function(error) {
    console.log('error');
    console.log(error);
});

Example

Public streams

statuses/filter

var userstream = twitter.stream('https://stream.twitter.com/1.1/statuses/filter.json', {
    data: {
        follow: 61260444 //me :)
    }
});
//listen to events...

statuses/sample

var userstream = twitter.stream('https://stream.twitter.com/1.1/statuses/sample.json');
//listen to events...

User streams

var userstream = twitter.stream('https://userstream.twitter.com/1.1/user.json');
//listen to events...

Option

• consumer: Object Twitter app public and secret consumer.
• token: Object Client public and secret token.

API

.stream()

create a stream

options

• url: String Twitter endpoint
• method: String default GET
• param: Object Twitter parameters

return

streaming object

event

• data: String twitter raw data. Beware: there are some incomplete data
• json: Object twitter data Use this instead of data
• error: status code (404, 503, ...)
• end