Let's build a simple Twitter bot. This bot will listen to tweets and pick out those that have a particular hashtag. All the tweets with a given hashtag will be printed on the console. This is a very simple bot to help us get started. In the following sections, we will explore more complex bots.
- Go to the root directory and create a new Node.js program using npm init:
- Execute the npm install twitter --save command to install the Twitter Node.js library:
Run npm install request --save to install the Request library as well. We will use this in the future to make HTTP GET requests to a news data source.
- Explore your package.json file in the root directory:
{
"name": "twitterbot",
"version": "1.0.0",
"description": "my news bot",
"main": "...