tweet-deets

A basic webserver that accepts a tweet ID and returns the content of the thread and some user info.

Usage

Use the route /tweet/text?id=<ID>, providing the id of the tweet (https://twitter.com/<account>/status/<ID>). The server will respond with JSON containing the tweet text and some basic user information (@username, name, bio), or an error (invalid ID, invalid authentication, etc). If the tweet is a thread (i.e. the author replied to their own tweet), the entire thread text will be stitched together.

Provide the following headers with a request to /tweet/text:

• server_password (must match the string provided in secrets.js)
• consumer_key (from your Twitter API dashboard)
• consumer_secret (from your Twitter API dashboard)

Threads

If you provide a parent tweet (the first tweet in a thread), the entire thread will be captured. Unfortunately, due to limitations on the Twitter API, child tweets older than 7 days will not be captured.

If you provide a child tweet, every tweet above it in the same thread will be captured. (the 7 day limit is not applicable in this case)

Notes

No guarantees about safety are made (given that I threw this together in a couple of hours and is only meant for personal use).

No guarantees about code quality either... (see above)