How to use the Twit module to search tweets: 1. Install Node.js 2. Make a new folder and open it in the terminal. 3. Type: npm install twit 4. Create a file called app.js just above the node_modules directory that was automatically created by the previous command 5. Paste the code in from this Gist. 6. Add your Twitter API keys to the file and s…

Node.js Twit Module Example

// Import the twit module that was downloaded with npm install twit.
// The module is loaded in node_modules and Node.js knows where to find it.
var Twit = require('twit');

// Settings -- put your keys here:
var T = new Twit({
    consumer_key: '...',
    consumer_secret: '...',
    access_token: '...',
    access_token_secret: '...'
});

// A method to search tweets. This will search for five JavaScript tweets from 2013.
T.get('search/tweets', { q: 'javascript since:2013-01-01', count: 5 }, function(err, reply) {
    
    // Uncomment the next line to view the JSON that is returned
    // console.log(reply);

    // Extract the statuses
    var tweets = reply.statuses;

    // Loop over the tweets
    for (var i = 0, len = tweets.length; i < len; i++) {
        // Do stuff with the tweets here
        console.log(tweets[i].text);
    }
});