Twittle

My personal implementation of Twitter's API through a CLI. Useful for getting some basic information from the comfort of your command line. Some of the things you can do with this module:

• Search a specific Twitter user
• Get a Twitter user's basic information (username, number of followers, etc.)
• Get a live stream of Tweets that match certain search criteria
• Get a list of tweets from the user's timeline

Twittle because it is a Twitter Tool. Twi-Tool. Twittle. Lame, I know. I'm so sorry.

Installation

This module is intended to be installed globally through the following:

npm install -g twittle

In addition you will need to have an environmental variable TWITTER_BEARER_TOKEN defined in your machine's environment. This token can be retrieved by logging into your Twitter Developer account, entering your project dashboard, and then viewing the secret keys / credentials page.

Help

see the help.txt file for in depth explanations. Running twittle --help will simply cat the file to your stdout. Make sure to run twittle --help | less for easy navigation (on *nix based systems)!

Notes

Please note that this CLI will need read / write access to your system (see --twitter flag which may potentially dump data for your).

If any errors should occur, I restructured the axios error so as to only show the basic request / response information (headers, body, etc.). When errors do occur, I recommend verifying first that the request header has the form :

Authorization: Bearer [bearer key]

For trouble shooting your code, I recommend verifying the following:

1. that you have a TWITTER_BEARER_TOKEN environmental variable defined in your environment.

2. that each request is using the correct bearer token. Outputted errors should clarify which, if any, token is being used.