cordova-twitter-client

cordova-twitter-client

A simple, promise based twitter client for Apache Cordova that vastly simplifies interactions with the Twitter API.

You should be aware that this embeds your Twitter application secrets in your cordova app. There is good discussion of this issue here.

Installation

npm i --save cordova-twitter-client

If the InAppBrowser plugin is not already installed:

cordova plugin add cordova-plugin-inappbrowser

Usage

const twitter = require('cordova-twitter-client')

const config = {
  callbackUrl: '<CALLBACK_URL>',
  consumerKey: '<CONSUMER_KEY>',
  consumerSecret: '<CONSUMER_SECRET>',
  accessToken: '<ACCESS_TOKEN>',
  accessTokenSecret: '<ACCESS_TOKEN_SECRET>'
}

document.addEventListener('deviceready', onDeviceReady, false)

function onDeviceReady() {
  twitter(config).login()
    .then(api => api.request('statuses/user_timeline.json?screen_name=danderson00&count=20' /*, 'GET' */))
    .then(results => writeToDocument(results.map(x => x.text).join('\n')))
    .catch(error => writeToDocument(error.message))

  function writeToDocument(text) {
    const element = document.createElement('span')
    element.innerText = text
    document.body.appendChild(element)
  }
}

You can also pass an options object:

api.request({
  endpoint: 'statuses/update.json',
  method: 'POST',
  parameters: {
    status: 'A tweet from the API!'
  }
})

Or create a client from a stored token:

import { storeToken } from 'some-storage-mechanism'

twitter(config).login()
  .then(({ token }) => storeToken(token))

import { retrieveToken } from 'some-storage-mechanism'

const api = twitter(config).fromToken(retrieveToken())
api.request({ /* ... */ })

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