# Twitter API v2
[](https://developer.twitter.com/en/docs/twitter-api/early-access)
[](https://developer.twitter.com/en/docs/twitter-api/v1)
[](https://github.com/PLhery/node-twitter-api-v2)
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[](https://bundlephobia.com/package/twitter-api-v2)
Strongly typed, full-featured, light, versatile yet powerful Twitter API v1.1 and v2 client for Node.js.
Main maintainer: [@alkihis](https://github.com/alkihis) - 
## Highlights
✅ **Ready for v2 and good ol' v1.1 Twitter API**
✅ **Light: No dependencies, 23kb minified+gzipped**
✅ **Bundled types for request parameters and responses**
✅ **Streaming support**
✅ **Pagination utils**
✅ **User-context authentication with OAuth2**
✅ **Media upload helpers**
## How to use
Install it through your favorite package manager:
```bash
yarn add twitter-api-v2
# or
npm i twitter-api-v2
```
Here's a quick example of usage:
```ts
import { TwitterApi } from 'twitter-api-v2';
// Instantiate with desired auth type (here's Bearer v2 auth)
const twitterClient = new TwitterApi('');
// Tell typescript it's a readonly app
const readOnlyClient = twitterClient.readOnly;
// Play with the built in methods
const user = await readOnlyClient.v2.userByUsername('plhery');
await twitterClient.v1.tweet('Hello, this is a test.');
// You can upload media easily!
await twitterClient.v1.uploadMedia('./big-buck-bunny.mp4');
```
## Why?
Sometimes, you just want to quickly bootstrap an application using the Twitter API.
Even though there are a lot of libraries available on the JavaScript ecosystem, they usually just
provide wrappers around HTTP methods, and some of them are bloated with many dependencies.
`twitter-api-v2` is meant to provide full endpoint wrapping, from method name to response data,
using descriptive typings for read/write/DMs rights, request parameters and response payload.
A small feature comparaison with other libs:
| Package | API version(s) | Response typings | Media helpers | Pagination | Subdeps | Size (gzip) | Install size |
| -------------- | -------------- | ---------------- | ------------- | ---------- | --------------- | -------------:| -------------:|
| twitter-api-v2 | v1.1, v2, labs | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | 0 | ~23 kB | [](https://packagephobia.com/result?p=twitter-api-v2) |
| twit | v1.1 | ❌ | ✅ | ❌ | 51 | ~214.5 kB | [](https://packagephobia.com/result?p=twit) |
| twitter | v1.1 | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ | 50 | ~182.1 kB | [](https://packagephobia.com/result?p=twitter) |
| twitter-lite | v1.1, v2 | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ | 4 | ~5.3 kB | [](https://packagephobia.com/result?p=twitter-lite) |
| twitter-v2 | v2 | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ | 7 | ~4.5 kB | [](https://packagephobia.com/result?p=twitter-v2) |
## Features
Here's everything `twitter-api-v2` can do:
### Basics:
- Support for v1.1 and **v2 of Twitter API**
- Make signed HTTP requests to Twitter with every auth type: **OAuth 1.0a**, **OAuth2** (even brand new user context OAuth2!) and **Basic** HTTP Authorization
- Helpers for numerous HTTP request methods (`GET`, `POST`, `PUT`, `DELETE` and `PATCH`),
that handle query string parse & format, automatic body formatting and more
- High-class support for stream endpoints, with easy data consumption and auto-reconnect on stream errors
### Request helpers:
- Automatic paginator for endpoints like user and tweet timelines,
allowing payload consumption with modern asynchronous iterators until your rate-limit is hit
- Convenient methods for authentication - generate auth links and ask for tokens to your users
- Media upload with API v1.1, including **long video & subtitles support**, automatic media type detection,
**chunked upload** and support for **concurrent uploads**
- Dedicated methods that wraps API v1.1 & v2 endpoints, with **typed arguments** and fully **typed responses**
- Typed errors, meaningful error messages, error enumerations for both v1.1 and v2
### Type-safe first:
- **Typings for tweet, user, media entities (and more) are bundled!**
- Type-safe wrapping of dedicated methods in 3 right level: *DM*/*Read-write*/*Read-only* (just like Twitter API do!) -
you can declare a read-only client - you will only see the methods associated with read-only endpoints
And last but not least, fully powered by native `Promise`s.
## Documentation
Learn how to use the full potential of `twitter-api-v2`.
- Get started
- [Create a client and make your first request](./doc/basics.md)
- [Handle Twitter authentication flows](./doc/auth.md)
- [Explore some examples](./doc/examples.md)
- [Use and create plugins](./doc/plugins.md)
- Use endpoints wrappers — ensure typings of request & response
- [Available endpoint wrappers for v1.1 API](./doc/v1.md)
- [Available endpoint wrappers for v2 API](./doc/v2.md)
- [Use Twitter streaming endpoints (v1.1 & v2)](./doc/streaming.md)
- Deep diving into requests
- [Use direct HTTP-method wrappers](./doc/http-wrappers.md)
- [Use rate limit helpers](./doc/rate-limiting.md)
- [Handle errors](./doc/errors.md)
- [Master `twitter-api-v2` paginators](./doc/paginators.md)
- [Discover available helpers](./doc/helpers.md)
## Plugins
Official plugins for `twitter-api-v2`:
- [`@twitter-api-v2/plugin-token-refresher`](https://www.npmjs.com/package/@twitter-api-v2/plugin-token-refresher): Handle OAuth 2.0 (user-context) token refreshing for you
- [`@twitter-api-v2/plugin-rate-limit`](https://www.npmjs.com/package/@twitter-api-v2/plugin-rate-limit): Access and store automatically rate limit data
- [`@twitter-api-v2/plugin-cache-redis`](https://www.npmjs.com/package/@twitter-api-v2/plugin-cache-redis): Store responses in a Redis store and serve cached responses
See [how to use plugins here](./doc/plugins.md).