Mastering Nodejs Twitter Bot

Code for the twitter bot example from the book Mastering Node.js

Getting Started

These instructions will get you a copy of the project up and running on your local machine.

Running the app

Create a .env file in the root of the project and add the following to the file :

CONSUMER_KEY=<YOUR_CONSUMER_KEY>
CONSUMER_SECRET=<YOUR_CONSUMER_SECRET>
ACCESS_TOKEN=<YOUR_ACCESS_TOKEN>
ACCESS_TOKEN_SECRET=<YOUR_ACCESS_TOKEN_SECRET>

To generate these keys, create a new developer app in Twitter at Twitter Developer App

Install the dependencies by running npm install in the root of the project.

Open 2 terminal windows and run the following processes:

node server.js

node twitter.js

Open the index.html in the browser to see the tweets being pulled.