twitter-api-v2

Twitter API v2

Strongly typed, full-featured, light, versatile yet powerful Twitter API v1.1 and v2 client for Node.js.

Main maintainer: @alkihis -

Highlights

✅ Ready for v2 and good ol' v1.1 Twitter API

✅ Light: No dependencies, 17kb minified+gzipped

✅ Bundled types for request parameters and responses

✅ Streaming support

✅ Pagination utils

✅ Media upload helpers

How to use

Install it through your favorite package manager:

yarn add twitter-api-v2
# or
npm i twitter-api-v2

Here's is a quick example of usage:

import TwitterApi from 'twitter-api-v2';

// Instanciate with desired auth type (here's Bearer v2 auth)
const twitterClient = new TwitterApi('<YOUR_APP_USER_TOKEN>');

// Tell typescript it's a readonly app
const roClient = twitterClient.readOnly;

// Play with the built in methods
const user = await roClient.v2.userByUsername('plhery');
await twitterClient.v1.tweet('Hello, this is a test.');
// You can upload media easily!
await twitterClient.v1.uploadMedia('./big-buck-bunny.mp4');

Why?

Sometimes, you just want to quickly bootstrap an application using the Twitter API. Even if they're a lot of available libraries on the JavaScript ecosystem, they usually just provide wrappers around HTTP methods, and some of them are bloated with many dependencies.

twitter-api-v2 meant to provide full endpoint wrapping, from method name to response data, using descriptive typings for read/write/DMs rights, request parameters and response payload.

A small feature comparaison with other libs:

Package	API version(s)	Response typings	Media helpers	Pagination	Subdeps	Size (gzip)	Install size
twitter-api-v2	v1.1, v2, labs	✅	✅	✅	0	~17 kB
twit	v1.1	❌	✅	❌	51	~214.5 kB
twitter	v1.1	❌	❌	❌	50	~182.1 kB
twitter-lite	v1.1, v2	❌	❌*	❌	4	~5.3 kB
twitter-v2	v2	❌	❌	❌	7	~4.5 kB

*No support for media/upload, cannot send a multipart/form-data encoded-body without tricks

Features

Here's the detailed feature list of twitter-api-v2:

Basics:

• Support for v1.1 and v2 of Twitter API
• Make signed HTTP requests to Twitter with every auth type: OAuth 1.0a, OAuth2 and Basic HTTP Authorization
• Helpers for numerous HTTP request methods (GET, POST, PUT, DELETE and PATCH), that handle query string parse & format, automatic body formatting and more
• High-class support for stream endpoints, with easy data consumption and auto-reconnect on stream errors

Request helpers:

• Automatic paginator for endpoints like user and tweet timelines, allowing payload consumption with modern asynchronous iterators until your rate-limit is hit
• Convenient methods for authentication - generate auth links and ask for tokens to your users will be a breeze
• Media upload with API v1.1, including long video & subtitles support, automatic media type detection, chunked upload and support for concurrent uploads
• Dedicated methods that wraps API v1.1 & v2 endpoints, with typed arguments and fully typed responses
• Bundled parsing of rate limit headers
• Typed errors, meaningful error messages, error enumerations for both v1.1 and v2

Type-safe first:

• Typings for tweet, user, media entities (and more) are bundled!
• Type-safe wrapping of dedicated methods in 3 right level: DM/Read-write/Read-only (just like Twitter API do!) - you can declare a read-only client - you will only see the methods associated with read-only endpoints

And last but not least, fully powered by native Promises.

Documentation

Learn how to use the full potential of twitter-api-v2.

• Get started
  • Create a client and make your first request
  • Handle Twitter authentification flows
  • Explore some examples
• Use endpoints wrappers — ensure typings of request & response
  • Available endpoint wrappers for v1.1 API
  • Available endpoint wrappers for v2 API
  • Use Twitter streaming endpoints (v1.1 & v2)
• Deep diving into requests
  • Use direct HTTP-method wrappers
  • Use rate limit helpers
  • Handle errors
  • Master twitter-api-v2 paginators
  • Discover available helpers