Meteor Twitter API Package

meteor-twitter-api is a simple package to wrap the Twitter API using Meteor's Twitter Service OAuth1Binding class.

Latest Version: 0.1.2

Install

To install in a new project:

> mrt add twitter-api

To update an existing project:

> mrt update twitter-api

Run the Example

> git clone https://github.com/sewdn/meteor-twitter-api.git twitter-api
> cd twitter-api/examples/basic
> mrt

Run Tests

no tests for now

Get Started

First, define the Twitter API on the server of your Meteor application.

if (Meteor.isServer) {
    var twitter = new TwitterApi();
}

After that, define some Meteor.methods that you can call from the client side of your application.

Server side method:

Meteor.methods({
    searchTwitter: function(term) {
        return twitter.search(term);
    }
});

Client side call:

'click #search': function() {
    var term = "test";
    Meteor.call('searchTwitter', term, function(err, result){
        if(!err){
            if (result.statusCode === 200) // This checks if we got a good response
                console.log(result.data); // This is the actual data
        }
    });
}

Using the Data

The package basically Check out the Twitter documentation here.

The package's methods do not use a callback, and instead just return the content, headers, statusCode and data in JSON from Twitter. You can use the statusCode to react to specific responses from Twitter. Here are the Twitter response codes.