I am trying to create a tweet to the user profile using twit package. This is the code I am using. By using this code I am able to tweet to my profile because I have access_token and access_token_secret. My question is If I want to tweet to some other people's profile. What is the procedure to do it I am not able to understand? I am using passport library to get the user details.
var Twit = require('twit');
var T = new Twit({
consumer_key: '************',
consumer_secret: '**********',
access_token: '******************',
access_token_secret: '******************',
timeout_ms: 60 * 1000,
strictSSL: true,
})
T.post('statuses/update', {status: 'hello world! '}, function(err, data, response) {
console.log('post on ',data);
})
Below down is my passport authentication code
'use strict';
require('dotenv').config();
const path = require('path');
const express = require('express');
const passport = require('passport');
const { Strategy } = require('passport-twitter');
const { TWITTER_CONSUMER_KEY, TWITTER_CONSUMER_SECRET, SESSION_SECRET } = process.env;
const port = process.env.PORT || 3000;
const app = express();
const routes = require('./routes');
passport.use(new Strategy({
consumerKey: TWITTER_CONSUMER_KEY,
consumerSecret: TWITTER_CONSUMER_SECRET,
callbackURL: '/return'
},
(token, tokenSecret, profile, cb) => {
console.log(token);
console.log(tokenSecret);
console.log(profile);
return cb(null, profile);
}));
passport.serializeUser((user, cb) => {
cb(null, user);
});
passport.deserializeUser((obj, cb) => {
cb(null, obj);
});
app.set('view engine', 'ejs');
app.use('/public', express.static(path.join(__dirname, 'public')));
app.use(require('express-session')({ secret: SESSION_SECRET, resave: true, saveUninitialized: true }));
app.use(passport.initialize());
app.use(passport.session());
app.use('/', routes);
app.listen(port);
another file
'use strict';
const express = require('express');
const passport = require('passport');
const router = express.Router();
router.get('/', (req, res, next) => {
const { user } = req;
console.log('user details', req.user);
// res.render('home', { user });
});
router.get('/login/twitter', passport.authenticate('twitter'));
router.get('/logout', (req, res, next) => {
req.logout();
res.redirect('/');
});
router.get('/return',
passport.authenticate('twitter', { failureRedirect: '/' }),
(req, res, next) => {
res.redirect('/');
});
module.exports = router;
Got the answer following these steps. https://developer.twitter.com/en/docs/basics/authentication/oauth-1-0a