A Javascript file that requests a Twitter bearer token for application only authentication (https://dev.twitter.com/docs/auth/application-only-auth). Depends on mikeals request library (https://github.com/mikeal/request) (npm install request)

createBearerToken.js

var R = require("request");

var key = process.env.TWITTER_CONSUMER_KEY;
var secret = process.env.TWITTER_CONSUMER_SECRET;
var cat = key +":"+secret;
var credentials = new Buffer(cat).toString('base64');

var url = 'https://api.twitter.com/oauth2/token';

R({ url: url,
    method:'POST',
    headers: {
        "Authorization": "Basic " + credentials,
        "Content-Type":"application/x-www-form-urlencoded;charset=UTF-8"
    },
    body: "grant_type=client_credentials"

}, function(err, resp, body) {

    console.dir(body); //the bearer token...

});

testBearerToken.js

var R = require("request");

var url = 'https://api.twitter.com/1.1/statuses/user_timeline.json';
var bearerToken = process.env.TWITTER_BEARER_TOKEN; //the bearer token obtained from the last script

R({ url: url,
    method:'GET',
    qs:{"screen_name":"stadolf"},
    json:true,
    headers: {
        "Authorization": "Bearer " + bearerToken
    }

}, function(err, resp, body) {

    console.dir(body);

});