📅 You're Invited: Meet the Socket team at RSAC (April 28 – May 1).RSVP
Socket logo

Install Socket

Detect and block malicious and high-risk dependencies

Install

social-api

Easily setup and query APIs from the major social networks, in a single package. if you are searching for a way to login users and obtain auth tokens, see social-login instead.

0.0.9
latest
Version published
Weekly downloads
4
-33.33%
Maintainers
2
Weekly downloads
 
Created

Social API

Social API is a NodeJS library that makes it easier to query various social sites' APIs.

Support

The support is currently limited, due to the project being under development.

The syntax, method names and parameters names are not stable.

Push requests are welcome.

We partially support:

  • Facebook page
  • Twitter
  • Instagram
  • Github

Setup

npm install social-api

var socialApi = require('social-api');

Facebook

Page

var page = new socialApi.facebook.page({
    appid:		"App ID",
	appsecret:	"App Secret",
    uid:		"User UID",
	authtoken:	"user Authtoken"
}, function(pageInstance) {
    pageInstance.list(function(fbpages) {
        // fbpages is an array of facebook pages owned by the user
    });
}

Instagram

var instagram = new socialApi.instagram({
    clientId:        "App ID",
	clientSecret:	"App Secret",
	token:	        "user Authtoken"
}, function(instagramInstance) {
    instagramInstance.recent(function(pictures) {
        // pictures is an array of pictures posted by the user
    });
}

Twitter

var twitter = new socialApi.twitter({
    consumer_key:           "consumer_key",
    consumer_secret:	    "consumer_secret",
    access_token_key:       "access_token_key",
    access_token_secret:	"access_token_secret"
}, function(twitterInstance) {
    twitterInstance.timeline('username', 20 /*count*/, function(tweets) {
        // tweets is an array of tweets posted by the user
    });
    twitterInstance.followers('username', 20 /*count*/, function(followers) {
        // followers is an array of the user's followers
    });
}

Github

var github = new socialApi.github({
    token:	        "user Authtoken"
}, function(githubInstance) {
    githubInstance.repositories(function(repositories) {
        // repositories is an array the user's repositories
    });
    githubInstance.orgs(function(orgs) {
        // orgs is an array the user's organizations
    });
    githubInstance.gists(function(gists) {
        // gists is an array the user's gists
    });
}

FAQs

Package last updated on 18 Jul 2014

Did you know?

Socket

Socket for GitHub automatically highlights issues in each pull request and monitors the health of all your open source dependencies. Discover the contents of your packages and block harmful activity before you install or update your dependencies.

Install

Related posts