node-red-node-twitter support for favorites tweets

[bigretromike]

https://flows.nodered.org/node/node-red-node-twitter "Tweets of who you follow will include their retweets and favourites"

Is it still possible to configure flow to get only favorites tweets for given user?

[knolleary]

I don't think so. The recent changes to the Twitter API have meant certain features in the node are no longer available. For this option, we use https://developer.twitter.com/en/docs/tweets/timelines/api-reference/get-statuses-home_timeline - which doesn't appear to mention favourites.

[bigretromike]

https://developer.twitter.com/en/docs/tweets/post-and-engage/api-reference/get-favorites-list

[bigretromike]

Any chance this will get included in next versions? I been wanting to use node-red but all the other twitter components are old and not updated or are missing favorites function.

[knolleary]

It's possible - but our focus is on the core Node-RED project at the moment.

The hard part, with all the recent API changes, is the rate-limiting. If this was added to one of the existing options, it would double the number of api requests we'd be making - and therefore half the rate at which we're able to poll the api.

The alternative would be to add it as an entirely new option on the node - that only sends favourites and not other events.

If you're waiting for us to do it, then I cannot commit to when that will happen. If you wanted to submit a pull-request, then it would certainly help.

[bigretromike]

rate-limit is a problem most of those request should be seperate object that count it for itself. If there was already working function that support those limit for twitter I could probably push something, but the node.js is not my strong side and I wouldn't want to push any bad-practice-code anyway.

I will dig around, but probably wait for someone to pick that up, or just find alternative to this, as I wanted to use this for twitter related project. I pick node-red because that 'outdated' information that I find, play with it a bit and it was all ok.

Thanks anyway to very quick respond ! Great project!