Fetch a single realtime stream from twitter stream API and forward it to many clients using SSE (Server Sent Events).
Twitter API only allows a single simultaneous stream per oauth token, so you need one token per instance if you want to fetch multiple streams from twitter.
add the streaming route to your express app
var express = require('express')
var app = express()
var setupTwitterStream = require('express-twitter-sse')
var creds = {
"consumer_key": "afZJlXJ876FDvp2sBW899qZUk",
"consumer_secret": "saBm4CDAMcug93knIq987dcrBjSf06trsAJAPpwAEZfffjj",
"access_token": "0989865-BcMdZXKXaxmcIrbxbyuvN1POMsGVfMiJ0czvzr",
"access_token_secret": "i009FEFff4NH48QnODq7USyvrqyC987fffRw1lKT2ih06de"
}
var params = {
track: 'javascript'
}
setupTwitterStream(app, '/stream', params, creds)
app.listen(3030, function() {
console.log('Listening on port 3030...')
})On the client, just connect to the SSE stream
var source = new EventSource('/stream');
source.onmessage = function (event) {
console.log(event);
};