This is a very simple application that I threw together to assist in reviewing submissions for the Kansas City Developer Conference (KCDC) 2017 event. We may add additional features in time, but for now, it is a basic node.js application that pulls from remote third-party APIs to get a sense of reach and industry clout for presenters who are currently unknown to us.
So long as you have the appropriate third-party accounts and API keys, you can use this for your own purposes.
This application was built using node@6.9.4 and npm@4.3.0. Earlier
versions of node.js may work, but this has not been tested. Variables
are block-scoped using let declarations, which is an unsupported
feature in pre-v6.x versions of node.
There is no build process associated, and therefore, no reliance upon gulp, grunt, webpack, babel, or any other specific build tools. You really just need node and npm.
In order to run this application, you will need valid accounts and access keys for the following:
The application is utilizing Application-only authentication from Twitter's API and does not support user-token access or the specific API endpoints that use it. This means that you will need a registered Twitter application and a valid Consumer Key and Consumer Secret.
All required base64 encoding and retrieval of a bearer token for the Twitter API are handled by the application.
Clone the repository to your local machine from:
$ git clone git@github.com:jstrauss/speaker-social.gitInstall dependencies from npm:
$ cd src
$ npm installThe application depends upon, and will install, the dotenv npm
package. This is used to load environment variables for the application.
You will need to create a new src/.env file in your local repository
or else you will get errors at runtime. This file is already excluded
from git in the .gitignore file. It must contain at least the
following:
// .env
TWITTER_CONSUMER_KEY=<your Twitter consumer key>
TWITTER_CONSUMER_SECRET=<your Twitter consumer secret>
PAPERCALLKEY=<your PaperCall.io API key>So long as the .env file is in place, you can run the application:
$ npm startThe application currently limits retrieval to 500 total submissions. This
can be modified, up to any underlying API limitations from PaperCall.io, by
changing the per_page query string paramater at line 25 of
speakers.js.
The API call to Twitter (users/lookup.json) allows no more than 100
username lookups in a single call, and is rate-limited to 900 requests
per 15-minute window. Additional documentation on the Twitter API call
can be found
here.
Suggestions/improvements are welcome and encouraged!
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| Jeff Strauss |