README.md

Twitter API Client

Node.js client for Twitter API

⚠️ Important notice

Twitter now has an official TypeScript SDK.
We recommend using that instead of this client.

This project will be maintained, but will not be developed any further.

To all contributors who added to this project: Thank you 🧡

Table of content

• Features
• Getting Started
• Usage
• License
• Get Help
• Contribute

Features

☑️ Includes 90% of the official Twitter API endpoints.
☑️ Promise-based! No ugly callbacks.
☑️ Fully typed! Both for query parameters and responses.
☑️ Inbuilt in-memory cache for rate-limit friendly usage.

Getting Started

Get your Twitter credentials

You will need to create a set of Twitter developer credentials from your Twitter Developer account.
If you don't have one already, apply for a developer account here.
It takes about 5 minutes.

Install

npm i twitter-api-client

Usage

import { TwitterClient } from 'twitter-api-client';

const twitterClient = new TwitterClient({
  apiKey: '<YOUR-TWITTER-API-KEY>',
  apiSecret: '<YOUR-TWITTER-API-SECRET>',
  accessToken: '<YOUR-TWITTER-ACCESS-TOKEN>',
  accessTokenSecret: '<YOUR-TWITTER-ACCESS-TOKEN-SECRET>',
});

// Search for a user
const data = await twitterClient.accountsAndUsers.usersSearch({ q: 'twitterDev' });

// Get message event by Id
const data = await twitterClient.directMessages.eventsShow({ id: '1234' });

// Get most recent 25 retweets of a tweet
const data = await twitterClient.tweets.statusesRetweetsById({ id: '12345', count: 25 });

// Get local trends
const data = await twitterClient.trends.trendsAvailable();

See all available methods here.

Configuration

twitter-api-client comes with an inbuilt in-memory cache.
The stale data is served by the cache-first principle.

You can configure the caching behavior upon instantiation of the client:

const twitterClient = new TwitterClient({
  apiKey: '<YOUR-TWITTER-API-KEY>',
  apiSecret: '<YOUR-TWITTER-API-SECRET>',
  accessToken: '<YOUR-TWITTER-ACCESS-TOKEN>',
  accessTokenSecret: '<YOUR-TWITTER-ACCESS-TOKEN-SECRET>',
  ttl: 120, // seconds. Defaults to 360
  disableCache: true, // Disables the caching behavior. Defaults to 'false'
  maxByteSize: 32000000, // Maximum (approximated) memory size for cache store. Defaults to 16000000.
});

License

This project is licensed under the MIT License

Get Help

• Reach out on Twitter
• Open an issue on GitHub

Contribute

Issues

In the case of a bug report, bugfix or a suggestions, please feel very free to open an issue.

Pull request

Pull requests are always welcome, and I'll do my best to do reviews as fast as I can. Please refer to the contribution guide to see how to get started.