Verifies Twitter credentials.

verify-credentials.js

var nconf = require('nconf')
var request = require('request')


// load config
nconf.file({ file: 'config.json' }).env()

// twitter authentication
var twitter_oauth = {
  consumer_key: nconf.get('TWITTER_CONSUMER_KEY'),
  consumer_secret: nconf.get('TWITTER_CONSUMER_SECRET'),
  token: nconf.get('TWITTER_ACCESS_TOKEN'),
  token_secret: nconf.get('TWITTER_ACCESS_TOKEN_SECRET')
}

// update request options
request_options = {
  url: 'https://api.twitter.com/1.1/account/verify_credentials.json',
  oauth: twitter_oauth
}

// get current user info
request.get(request_options, function (error, response, body) {

  if (error) {
    console.log('Error retreiving user data.')
    console.log(error)
    return;
  }

  console.log(body)
})