Minimal node.js server to pass Twitter API responses through JSON parse and stringify

app-broken.js

var http = require('http')
    https = require('https'),
    url = require('url');

// proxy json requests to Twitter API, round-trip through JSON.parse/stringify:
http.createServer(function (req, res) {
	if (req.url.indexOf('.json') == req.url.length - '.json'.length) {
		var options = { host: 'api.twitter.com', path: req.url }
		https.get(options, function(got) {
			console.log("Got response: " + got.statusCode);
			var b = new Buffer(0);
			res.writeHead(200, {'Content-Type': got.headers['content-type'] || 'application/json'});
			got.on('data', function(d) {
				b += d;
			});
			got.on('end', function() {
				console.log('response ends');
				var str = b.toString();
				var data = JSON.parse(str);
				res.end(JSON.stringify(data,false));
			})
		}).on('error', function(e) {
			console.log("Got error: " + e.message);
			res.write(JSON.stringify({ error: e.message }));
			res.end();
		});
	} else {
		res.end('path must end with json', 400);
	}
}).listen(1337, "127.0.0.1");

console.log('Server running at http://127.0.0.1:1337/');

See https://gist.github.com/2714281 for an Objective-C client that can't understand output from this server. Try opening http://localhost:1337/1/statuses/show/165946274644885504.json and compare with https://api.twitter.com/1/statuses/show/165946274644885504.json to see why.

Try http://localhost:1337/1/statuses/show/18829502573.json I think it's working fine for unicode, but emoji just won't render natively so you see <?>'s, but it's still valid utf8?

Hello,

i wanted to get the json data into node js.

can u please help me out with the code.

thanks
pranav