Fetching tweets on the basis of screen_name in nodejs

Question

I want to develop a website where user can write the twitter screen name of any celebrity so when click on show show tweet button it will show latest tweet of that screen_name.I want to implement it in angular and node js?

Answer 1

You should follow some steps that I will list to do so. Firstly create your developer account in twitter. After that there is a library for this in Node, you can find it here.

Below code shows a route in your application which can used to get recent twits.

    var express = require('express');
    var Twitter = require('twitter');

    var app = express();

    var client = new Twitter({
      consumer_key: 'your-key',
      consumer_secret: 'your-key',
      access_token_key: 'your-key',
      access_token_secret: 'your-key'
    });



    app.get('/twitter/:screenname', function(req, res, next) {
        var params = {screen_name: req.params.screenname};
        client.get('statuses/user_timeline', params, function(error, tweets, response) {
          if (!error) {
            return res.status(200).json({tweets});
          }
          return res.status(500).json({error});
        });
    }) 
    var server = app.listen(3000, () => {
        console.log('Server running at port 3000')
    })