user-stream

user-stream

Simple Node.js Twitter (API 1.1) user stream client (https://dev.twitter.com/docs/streaming-apis/streams/user)

Install

npm install user-stream

Usage

var Stream = require('user-stream');
var stream = new Stream({
    consumer_key: '',
    consumer_secret: '',
    access_token_key: '',
    access_token_secret: ''
});

//create stream
stream.stream();

//listen stream data
stream.on('data', function(json) {
  console.log(json);
});

Events

• data - stream data in JSON format
• garbage - stream data who can't be parsed to JSON
• close - stream close event (stream connection closed)
• error - error event (request error, response error, response status code greater than 200)
• connected - stream created
• heartbeat - twitter emitted heartbeat

Methods

• stream - create stream connection
• destroy - destroy/close stream connection

Streaming API request parameters link

var params = {
    with: 'user'
}
//create stream
stream.stream(params);

Reserved parameters for lib

• delimited
• stall_warnings