Twitter search API test

index.js

// Usage: node index.js "twitter search string"


var request = require('request');


// Grab a bearer token using application-only auth
// (doc: https://dev.twitter.com/oauth/application-only)

var consumer_key = process.env.TWITTER_CONSUMER_KEY || 'CONSUMER_KEY';
var consumer_secret = process.env.TWITTER_CONSUMER_SECRET || 'CONSUMER_SECRET';

var authHeaderValue = new Buffer(
  [consumer_key, consumer_secret]
  .map(encodeURIComponent)
  .join(':')).toString('base64');

request({
  method: 'POST',
  url: 'https://api.twitter.com/oauth2/token',
  headers: {
    'Authorization': 'Basic ' + authHeaderValue,
    'Content-Type': 'application/x-www-form-urlencoded;charset=UTF-8'
  },
  form: {
    grant_type: 'client_credentials'
  }
}, function(err, resp, body) {
  
  // Now use the bearer token to hit the search/tweets.json endpoint, and pipe
  // the results to stdout.
  // (doc: https://dev.twitter.com/rest/public/search)
  
  if(err || !resp.statusCode || resp.statusCode < 200 || resp.statusCode >= 400) {
    console.error(err, resp.statusCode);
    return;
  }
  
  var token = JSON.parse(body).access_token.toString('utf8');
  request({
    method: 'GET',
    url: ' https://api.twitter.com/1.1/search/tweets.json',
    qs: {
      q: process.argv[2]
    },
    headers: {
      'Authorization': 'Bearer ' + token
    }
  }).pipe(process.stdout);
  
})