03-interact-with-tweets.md

Interact with tweets

To get a list of tweets in the bots time line use .get(statuses/home_timeline'...

bot.get('statuses/home_timeline', {
  count: 1
}, (err, data, response) => {
  if (err) {
    console.log(err)
  } else {
    console.log(data)
  }
})

To be more granular you can pull out specific information on each tweet.

bot.get('statuses/home_timeline', {
  count: 5
}, (err, data, response) => {
  if (err) {
    console.log(err)
  } else {
    data.forEach(t => {
      console.log(t.text)
      console.log(t.user.screen_name)
      console.log(t.id_str)
      console.log('\n')
    })
  }
})

To retweet use .post('statuses/retweet/:id'... and pass in a tweet id to retweet.

bot.post('statuses/retweet/:id', {
  id: '860828247944253440'
}, (err, data, response) => {
  if (err) {
    console.log(err)
  } else {
    console.log(`${data.text} retweet success!`)
  }
})

To unretweet just use .post('statuses/unretweet/:id'...

bot.post('statuses/unretweet/:id', {
  id: '860828247944253440'
}, (err, data, response) => {
  if (err) {
    console.log(err)
  } else {
    console.log(`${data.text} unretweet success!`)
  }
})

To like a tweet use .post('favorites/create'...

bot.post('favorites/create', {
  id: '860897020726435840'
}, (err, data, response) => {
  if (err) {
    console.log(err)
  } else {
    console.log(`${data.text} tweet liked!`)
  }
})

To unlike a post use .post('favorites/destroy'...

bot.post('favorites/destroy', {
  id: '860897020726435840'
}, (err, data, response) => {
  if (err) {
    console.log(err)
  } else {
    console.log(`${data.text} tweet unliked!`)
  }
})

To reply to a tweet is much the same a posting a tweet but you need to include the in_reply_to_status_id parameter, but that's not enough as you will also need to put in the screen name of the person you are replying to.

bot.post('statuses/update', {
  status: '@ScottDevTweets I reply to you yes!',
  in_reply_to_status_id: '860900406381211649'
}, (err, data, response) => {
  if (err) {
    console.log(err)
  } else {
    console.log(`${data.text} tweeted!`)
  }
})

Finally if you want to delete a tweet use .post('statuses/destroy/:id'... passing the tweet id you want to delete.

bot.post('statuses/destroy/:id', {
  id: '860900437993676801'
}, (err, data, response) => {
  if (err) {
    console.log(err)
  } else {
    console.log(`${data.text} tweet deleted!`)
  }
})

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