node-red-twitter

node-red-node-twitter
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Node-RED nodes to talk to Twitter.

The Twitter API will NOT deliver 100% of all tweets. This does NOT give access to the Twitter Firehose.

Tweets of who you follow will include their retweets and favourites.

Install
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Run the following command in your Node-RED user directory - typically ~/.node-red

npm install node-red-node-twitter

Usage
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Provides two nodes - one to receive messages, and one to send.

$3

Twitter input node. Can be used to search either:

- the public or a user's stream for tweets containing the configured search term
- all tweets by specific users
- direct messages received by the authenticated user

Use space for and, and comma , for or when searching for multiple terms.

Sets the msg.topic to tweets/ and then appends the senders screen name.

Sets msg.location to the tweeters location if known.

When returning events it sets the msg.payload to the twitter event, a full list is documented by
Twitter.

Sets msg.tweet to the full tweet object as documented by Twitter.

Note: This node is not connected to the FireHose, so will not return 100% of all tweets to a busy @id or #hashtag.

Sets msg.tweet to the full tweet object as documented by Twitter.

Note: when set to a specific user's tweets, or your direct messages, the node is subject to
Twitter's API rate limiting. If you deploy the flows multiple times within a 15 minute window, you may
exceed the limit and will see errors from the node. These errors will clear when the current 15 minute window
passes.

$3

Tweets the msg.payload.

To send a Direct Message (DM) - use a payload like.

D {username} {message}

If msg.media exists and is a Buffer object, this node will treat it as an image and attach it to the tweet.

If msg.params exists and is an object of name:value pairs, this node will treat it as parameters for the update request.