Tweet from a JS file

[richardstweets]

Does anyone know how I tweet from another JS File ?

My index file looks likes this:

console.log('Starting');

var Twit = require('twit');

var config = require('./config');
var T = new Twit(config);

var tweet = {
	status:'Hello World',
}

T.post('statuses/update', tweet, tweeted);

function tweeted(err, data, response) {
	if (err) {
		console.log("Something went wrong!");
	} else {
		console.log("It worked!");
	}

I'm new to this and all I want to do is say tweet from another js file called tweets that say has a list of tweets in it like the below:

'This is a test tweet'
'This is a test tweet 2'
'This is a test tweet 3'

and I want it to tweet them from top to bottom and also with an interval say like every hour.

Can anyone help with this ?

Thanks

[cparello]

something like this, but this is quick and crude psuedocode

setInterval(function(){
node nameOfscript.js one two three four five
},60000)

//inside nameofscript.js
const myArgs = process.argv.slice(2);
console.log('myArgs: ', myArgs);
myArgs[0] = one
.
.
myArgs[4] = five

[richardstweets]

Hey thanks. but i think i'm doing something wrong.

my index file:

console.log('Starting');

const Twit = require('twit');

const config = require('./config');
const T = new Twit(config);

setInterval(function(){

node tweets.js one two three four five
},60000)

T.post('statuses/update', tweet, tweeted);

function tweeted(err, data, response) {
	if (err) {
		console.log("Something went wrong!");
	} else {
		console.log("It worked!");
	}

}

My tweets file:

const myArgs = process.argv.slice(2);
console.log('myArgs: ', myArgs);
myArgs[0] = one
.
.
myArgs[4] = five

'This is a test tweet'
'This is a test tweet 2'
'This is a test tweet 3'

[cparello]

try something like this just to understand how command line args work, then copy all of your tweeting code into testTweet.js. your setinterval should be in index.js and your tweet code should be in the second file. you can also spawn a child process. google node child process

//index.js

let testTweet = 'this is a test';
node tweets.js + ' ' + testTweet;

//tweetTest.js

console.log('Starting');

const myArgs = process.argv.slice(2);
let testTweet = myArgs[0];
console.log('testTweet : ', testTweet );

[richardstweets]

I seem to get an error again, do i need to remove something from the index file ?

Index.js file:

console.log('Starting');

const Twit = require('twit');

const config = require('./config');
const T = new Twit(config);

let testTweet = 'this is a test';

node tweets.js + ' ' + testTweet

T.post('statuses/update', tweet, tweeted);

function tweeted(err, data, response) {
	if (err) {
		console.log("Something went wrong!");
	} else {
		console.log("It worked!");
	}

}

tweet.js file:

const myArgs = process.argv.slice(2);
let testTweet = myArgs[0];
console.log('testTweet : ', testTweet );

[cparello]

what error?

[richardstweets]

C:\Users\richa\Documents\TwitBot>node index.js
C:\Users\richa\Documents\TwitBot\index.js:9
node tweets.js + ' ' + testTweet
^^^^^^

SyntaxError: Unexpected identifier
←[90m at Object.compileFunction (node:vm:360:18)←[39m
←[90m at wrapSafe (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:1088:15)←[39m
←[90m at Module._compile (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:1123:27)←[39m
←[90m at Module._extensions..js (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:1213:10)←[39m
←[90m at Module.load (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:1037:32)←[39m
←[90m at Module._load (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:878:12)←[39m
←[90m at Function.executeUserEntryPoint [as runMain] (node:internal/modules/run_main:81:12)←[39m
←[90m at node:internal/main/run_main_module:23:47←[39m

[cparello]

oh duh, i forgot you have to use child process

const { spawn } = require('node:child_process');
const bat = spawn('node', ['tweets.js', 'testTweet']);

bat.stdout.on('data', (data) => {
console.log(data.toString());
});

bat.stderr.on('data', (data) => {
console.error(data.toString());
});

bat.on('exit', (code) => {
console.log(Child exited with code ${code});
});

[richardstweets]

Thank man, so should both my files look like this below ?

Index.js:

console.log('Starting');

const Twit = require('twit');

const config = require('./config');
const T = new Twit(config);

const { spawn } = require('node:child_process');
const bat = spawn('node', ['tweets.js', 'testTweet']);

bat.stdout.on('data', (data) => {
console.log(data.toString());
});

bat.stderr.on('data', (data) => {
console.error(data.toString());
});

bat.on('exit', (code) => {
console.log(Child exited with code ${code});
});

let testTweet = 'this is a test';

node tweets.js + ' ' + testTweet

T.post('statuses/update', tweet, tweeted);

function tweeted(err, data, response) { if (err) { console.log("Something went wrong!"); } else { console.log("It worked!"); }

}

tweets.js:

const myArgs = process.argv.slice(2);
let testTweet = myArgs[0];
console.log('testTweet : ', testTweet );

[cparello]

I would do it like this, make index call tweets.js and have all the tweet code in tweets.js, then inside index loop or interval to repeat

index.js:

console.log('Starting');

const { spawn } = require('node:child_process');

//then i would do the setInterval here so it calls this every x secs
let testTweet = 'this is a test';
const bat = spawn('node', ['tweets.js', testTweet]);

bat.stdout.on('data', (data) => {
console.log(data.toString());
});

bat.stderr.on('data', (data) => {
console.error(data.toString());
});

bat.on('exit', (code) => {
console.log(Child exited with code ${code});
});

tweets.js:

const Twit = require('twit');

const config = require('./config');
const T = new Twit(config);

const myArgs = process.argv.slice(2);
let testTweet = myArgs[0];
console.log('testTweet : ', testTweet );

// i forget how to pass testTweet into T.post but you need to do that here
T.post('statuses/update', tweet, tweeted);

function tweeted(err, data, response) { if (err) { console.log("Something went wrong!"); } else { console.log("It worked!"); }

}

[cparello]

this guy has a video series

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLRqwX-V7Uu6atTSxoRiVnSuOn6JHnq2yV

[smrgrg]

This should work.
const Twit = require('twit');

// Replace these with your own API keys
const T = new Twit({
consumer_key: 'your consumer key',
consumer_secret: 'your consumer secret',
access_token: 'your access token',
access_token_secret: 'your access token secret'
});

// This function will be called every minute to tweet a message
function tweet() {
// Generate a random message
const message = 'Hello, world! #Nodejs #TwitterBot';

// Post the message
T.post('statuses/update', { status: message }, (err, data, response) => {
if (err) {
console.error(err);
} else {
console.log(Tweeted: ${message});
}
});
}

// Call the function every minute
setInterval(tweet, 60 * 1000);