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Fane
Fane

Reputation: 2074

Perform http request with twitter tokens via nodejs

I have the following twitter tokens:

var tokens = {
        consumer_key: 'xxx',
        consumer_secret: 'xxx',
        access_token_key: 'xxx',
        access_token_secret: 'xxx' 
};

And the following http_options 

var options = {
        host: 'https://api.twitter.com',
        path: '1.1/users/lookup.json?screen_name='+screen_name,
        method: 'GET',
        headers: {
            'Content-Type': 'application/json'
        }
    }

I tried this but it failed

var options = {
        host: 'https://api.twitter.com',
        path: '/1.1/users/lookup.json?screen_name='+screen_name,
        method: 'GET',
        headers: {
            'Content-Type': 'application/json'
        },
        auth: {
            consumer_key: 'xxx',
            consumer_secret: 'xxx',
            access_token_key: 'xxx',
            access_token_secret: 'xxx'
        }
    }

In the following code:

var http_client = require('http');
var reqPost = http_client.request(options, function(res) {

    res.on('data', function(d) {
            buffer = buffer+d;
        });
    res.on('end', function() {

           buffer = JSON.parse(buffer);

           console.log("inside stream, BUFFER:",buffer);
       });
  });

reqPost.write();
reqPost.end();

If you open this link https://api.twitter.com/1.1/users/lookup.json?screen_name=testuser you might see {"errors":[{"message":"Bad Authentication data","code":215}]}, so I don't know exactly how should I accomplish this. Can someone help me? Thank you very much.

Upvotes: 2

Views: 1526

Answers (2)

Hillsie
Hillsie

Reputation: 715

Also been wrestling with this code. Finally got it to work with Node native https. Makes it much easier that we now have backticks. I suggest you first get it to work in Postman, click the code button, then plug in the values into this code snippet. however, you still need to perform some OAuth activities to get it to be repeatable and need an epoc timestamp. Probably easier to use and oauth module.

const http = require("https");
// prettier-ignore
const options = {
  "method": "GET",
  "hostname": "api.twitter.com",
  "port": 443,
  "path": "/1.1/collections/entries.json?id=custom-90708098097098-fake",
  "headers": {
    "authorization":`OAuth oauth_consumer_key="yourtwitterconsumerkey",oauth_token="yourregisteredtwittertoken", oauth_signature_method="HMAC-SHA1",oauth_timestamp="atimestame",oauth_nonce="anonceofyourchoic",oauth_version="1.0",oauth_signature="anoauthtweet"`,
    "cache-control": "no-cache"
  }
};
const req = http.request(options, function(res) {
  let chunks = [];

  res.on("data", function(chunk) {
    chunks.push(chunk);
  });

  res.on("end", function() {
    let body = Buffer.concat(chunks);
    console.log(body.toString());
  });
});

req.end();

Upvotes: 1

Kelsadita
Kelsadita

Reputation: 1038

The way with which you are making oauth request to access twitter API is not proper. You may need oauth module to accomplish this task. Have a look at the README from this module repository https://github.com/ciaranj/node-oauth

I will suggest you to use twitter module to accomplish the given task. Just look at this example.

var Twitter = require('twitter');

var client = new Twitter({
  consumer_key: 'xxx',
  consumer_secret: 'xxx',
  access_token_key: 'xxx',
  access_token_secret: 'xxx'
});

var params = {screen_name: 'nodejs'};
client.get('users/lookup.json', params, function(error, tweets, response){
  if (!error) {
    console.log(tweets);
  }
});

Upvotes: 1

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