twitter-trends-api

Twitter Trends API Exampes

How to run

Please set your Twitter api keys env

export TWITTER_API_KEY='**************' \
export TWITTER_API_SECRET='**************' \
export TWITTER_ACCESS_TOKEN='**************' \
export TWITTER_ACCESS_TOKEN_SECRET='**************'

You can then run the api

git clone https://github.com/loretoparisi/twitter-trends-api.git
cd twitter-trends-api/
npm install
node examples/api.js

APIs

TwitterTrends exposes the following apis

• getPlaces, Get Local Trends Places.
• getTopics, Get the top 50 trending topics for a specific location or worldwide.
• getTopicsByCountry, To get the top trending topics by ISO 3166-2 Country Code (e.g. US ) and place type (Town or Country).
• getTopicsByLanguage, To get the top trending topics by ISO 639-1 Language Code (e.g. en ) and place type (Town or Country).

Examples

Creare a new TwitterTrends instance with in memory cache expire parameter. We suggest at least 15 minutes of cache expiration at minimum, due to Twitter API rate limits that has a 15-minute window (see section Errors).

const twitterTrends = new TwitterTrends({ expire: (1000 * 60 * 15) });

Get Local Trends Places in Italy (IT)

twitterTrends.getPlaces({
    // ISO 3166-2 Country Code
    countryCode: 'IT'
});

Get the top 50 trending topics for worldwide

twitterTrends.getTopics({
    // Yahoo! woeid: the location from where to return trending information for from.
    id: '1',
    // Setting this equal to hashtags will remove all hashtags from the trends list.
    exclude: '',
    // top ten trending topic
    limit: 10
});

Get the top trending topics in Italy (IT) for Town places.

twitterTrends.getTopicsByCountry({
    // ISO 3166-2 Country Code
    countryCode: 'IT',
    // filter by place of type 'Town'
    placeType: TwitterTrends.PLACE_TYPE_TOWN
});

Get the top trending topics in Spain (ES) for place type Country (so Spain).

twitterTrends.getTopicsByCountryCode({
    // filter trends places by ISO 3166-2 Country Code
    countryCode: 'ES',
    // filter by place of type 'Country'
    placeType: TwitterTrends.PLACE_TYPE_COUNTRY
});

Get the top trending topics in italian (it) for Town places.

twitterTrends.getTopicsByLanguage({
    // ISO 639-1 Language Code
    languageCode: 'it',
    // filter by place of type 'Town'
    placeType: TwitterTrends.PLACE_TYPE_TOWN
});

Errors

• Rate limit exceeded, indicates that api rate limit has been reached. Please check Twitter API v2 rate limits

{
	"errors": [{
		"message": "Rate limit exceeded",
		"code": 88
	}]
}

Acknowledgments

TwitterTrends uses the following libraries

• twitter-api-client
• simple-mem-cache