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creationix / streamtest.js
Created January 1, 2011 08:57
A sample client for creationix/jsonparse that consumes the twitter feed and filters out messages and names
var Parser = require('./jsonparse');
var Http = require('http');
var p = new Parser();
// IMPORTANT, put your username and password in here
var username = "yourTwitterUsername", password = "yourPassword";
var client = Http.createClient(80, "stream.twitter.com");
var request = client.request("GET", "/1/statuses/sample.json", {
"Host": "stream.twitter.com",
"Authorization": (new Buffer(username + ":" + password)).toString("base64")
});