Merge pull request AvianFlu#94 from gazzer82/master

Implemented application-only authentication

README.md

@@ -32,7 +32,11 @@ You will need valid Twitter developer credentials in the form of a set of consum
 
 ```javascript
 var Twitter = require('twitter');
+```
+
+## For User based authetication:
 
+```javascript
 var client = new Twitter({
   consumer_key: '',
   consumer_secret: '',
@@ -51,6 +55,31 @@ var client = new Twitter({
   access_token_secret: process.env.TWITTER_ACCESS_TOKEN_SECRET,
 });
 ```
+## For Application Only based authetication:
+
+You will need to fetch a bearer token from Twitter as documented [Here](https://dev.twitter.com/oauth/application-only), once you have it you can use it as follows.
+
+```javascript
+var client = new Twitter({
+  consumer_key: '',
+  consumer_secret: '',
+  bearer_token: ''
+});
+```
+
+Add your credentials accordingly.  I would use environment variables to keep your private info safe.  So something like:
+
+```javascript
+var client = new Twitter({
+  consumer_key: process.env.TWITTER_CONSUMER_KEY,
+  consumer_secret: process.env.TWITTER_CONSUMER_SECRET,
+  bearer_token: process.env.TWITTER_BEARER_TOKEN,
+});
+```
+
+NB - You will not have access to all endpoints whilst using Application Only authentication, but you will have access to higher API limits.
+
+## Requests
 
 You now have the ability to make GET and POST requests against the API via the convenience methods.
 

lib/twitter.js

@@ -23,6 +23,7 @@ function Twitter (options) {
     consumer_secret: null,
     access_token_key: null,
     access_token_secret: null,
+    bearer_token: null,
     rest_base: 'https://api.twitter.com/1.1',
     stream_base: 'https://stream.twitter.com/1.1',
     user_stream_base: 'https://userstream.twitter.com/1.1',
@@ -32,26 +33,42 @@ function Twitter (options) {
       headers: {
         'Accept': '*/*',
         'Connection': 'close',
-        'User-Agent': 'node-twitter/' + VERSION
+        'User-Agent': 'node-twitter/' + VERSION,
       }
     }
   }, options);
-
-  // Build a request object
-  this.request = request.defaults(
-    extend(
-      // Pass the client submitted request options
-      this.options.request_options,
-      {
-        oauth: {
-          consumer_key: this.options.consumer_key,
-          consumer_secret: this.options.consumer_secret,
-          token: this.options.access_token_key,
-          token_secret: this.options.access_token_secret
+  //Check to see if we are going to use User Authentication or Application Authetication
+  if (this.options.bearer_token){
+    //Ok we have a bearer token, so going with application-only auth
+    // Build a request object
+      this.request = request.defaults(
+        extend(
+          //Pass the client submitted request options
+          this.options.request_options,
+          {
+            headers: {
+              Authorization: 'Bearer ' + this.options.bearer_token
+            }
+          }
+        )
+      );
+  } else {
+      //No bearer token detected so defaulting to user auth
+      this.request = request.defaults(
+      extend(
+        //Pass the client submitted request options
+        this.options.request_options,
+        {
+          oauth: {
+            consumer_key: this.options.consumer_key,
+            consumer_secret: this.options.consumer_key,
+            token: this.options.access_token_key,
+            token_secret: this.options.access_token_secret
+          }
         }
-      }
-    )
-  );
+      )
+    );
+  }
 }
 
 Twitter.prototype.__buildEndpoint = function(path, base) {

test/twitter.js

@@ -19,6 +19,7 @@ describe('Twitter', function() {
           consumer_secret: null,
           access_token_key: null,
           access_token_secret: null,
+          bearer_token: null,
           rest_base: 'https://api.twitter.com/1.1',
           stream_base: 'https://stream.twitter.com/1.1',
           user_stream_base: 'https://userstream.twitter.com/1.1',