Does it support Twitter's webhooks and activity API?

[dvlden]

I tried to register webhook simply by using:

// Register Webhooks
const webhook = await client.v1.post(
  'account_activity/all/dev/webhooks?url=http://46aa-178-149-218-192.ngrok.io/webhook/twitter',
)

Request fails. I tried with await client.v2.post as well.

I might not know how to do this right... Wonder if it's bundled within the lib, but I can't find it within examples.

Useful links:
https://developer.twitter.com/en/docs/twitter-api/premium/account-activity-api/guides/managing-webhooks-and-subscriptions
https://developer.twitter.com/en/docs/twitter-api/premium/account-activity-api/guides/account-activity-data-objects

[alkihis]

Hi,

No, Account Activity API is not wrapped by specific methods.
You are making 2 little mistakes in your request:

// use .v1, because API prefix is https://api.twitter.com/1.1
// >>> Don't forget to add the .json at the end of the URL !
// >>> Give parameters in body, not in URL!
const webhook = await client.v1.post('account_activity/all/dev/webhooks.json', { url: 'http://46aa-178-149-218-192.ngrok.io/webhook/twitter' })

[dvlden]

Ouch, I see... Thanks for heads-up. It's more complex than this, to register webhook and subscribe to events. I spent some time attempting this. Twitter docs are not greatest IMO :/

Thanks a lot for making this. It's the best api for Node!

[dvlden]

I found an alternative lib for activity events only. It's unfortunate that it's not all covered by a single lib, but this will do.
Hope to see Activity Api implemented in this package soon.

Thanks @alkihis and keep up the good work!

[alkihis]

I will be happy to know which lib you've used for Account Activity API ! :)
I develop this lib on my free time, so implementing AAAPI endpoints is planned, but not now.
But it isn't planned to implement support of webhooks (that requires a webserver) ; only REST endpoints.

[dvlden]

I used twict. This one has endpoitns to register, delete and subcribe hooks, but also has an event listener to handle different events (one event of DM being read throws error tho, as it's not handled)

Aside it has the server to always run on specified port and uses NGROK ofc to proxy requests.
I'm not really a fan that it has express bundled in, but it does the job.

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I understand. Happy to hear that it is planned. It's really nice library. Wish if it had more usage and perhaps sponsors to keep you and this project going.

[winstxnhdw]

@dvlden Were you ever able to get twict working without express? I am not too sure how decoupled his code is.

[dvlden]

@winstxnhdw I think it uses express in its Activity Class. So no, I did not get it working without Express, it comes with it out of the box. So I used that. 🤷‍♂️

[winstxnhdw]

I ended up forking twict and removing Express. If anyone is interested, it's https://github.com/winstxnhdw/webhoot