feed-tamer

feed-tamer

Find list of users who contribute the most traffic to your Twitter home timeline.

Details

Do you like browsing your Twitter feed but find some tweets are being drowned out by prolific users?

This app returns a list of users who contribute the most traffic to your Twitter home timeline.

If those users are no longer interesting to you, try moving them to a Twitter list or unfollow.

Usage

npm install feed-tamer --save

Sample application using feed-tamer

The following sample app returns:

Analyzing 800 most recent tweets for "my_twitter_name"...
Contributors to home feed:
[ { name: 'user_abc', count: 74 },
  { name: 'user_123', count: 28 },
  ...
  ...
]

To run app:

clone https://github.com/briangershon/feed-tamer.git
cd feed-tamer

export TWITTER_CONSUMER_KEY=""
export TWITTER_CONSUMER_SECRET=""
export TWITTER_ACCESS_TOKEN_KEY=""
export TWITTER_ACCESS_TOKEN_SECRET=""

export SCREEN_NAME="my_twitter_name"

npm start

which runs the following code:

const feedTamer = require('feed-tamer');

const creds = {
  consumer_key: process.env.TWITTER_CONSUMER_KEY,
  consumer_secret: process.env.TWITTER_CONSUMER_SECRET,
  access_token_key: process.env.TWITTER_ACCESS_TOKEN_KEY,
  access_token_secret: process.env.TWITTER_ACCESS_TOKEN_SECRET
};

const screenName = process.env.SCREEN_NAME;
const NUMBER_OF_TWEETS_TO_GATHER = 800;   // 4 API calls. Twitter limit is 15 calls in 15 minutes.

feedTamer.homeFeedContributors(creds, screenName, NUMBER_OF_TWEETS_TO_GATHER, (err, finalTweetCount, contributors) => {
  if (err) {
    console.log('homeFeedContributors error', err);
  } else {
    console.log(`Analyzing ${finalTweetCount} most recent tweets for "${screenName}"...`);
    console.log(`Contributors to home feed:`);
    console.log(contributors);
  }
});

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