Tweeting from within meteor application - api

Question

I am trying to build an app with Meteor that involves the user signing in with twitter, facebook, or google+, and then posting to those accounts from within the application.
First I'm trying to get twitter to work. I have my twitter sign in working, with the permission to tweet on their behalf working, but how to I actually send a tweet?
I think I need this: https://dev.twitter.com/docs/api/1.1/post/statuses/update but I can't figure out how the authentication works with Meteor.
Are there any examples that can help me here? Or tutorials?

Answer 1

You need an API to help you a bit unless you want to do it manually using REST with Meteor.http. I'd recommend you get meteorite: https://github.com/oortcloud/meteorite
Its installed like a node module via npm install -g meteorite
Meteorite is a wrapper for meteor that lets you use the community packages over at http://atmosphere.meteor.com
The twitter package you could use is twitter-api installed via mrt add twitter-api : https://github.com/Sewdn/meteor-twitter-api
Once added using the server api you can add a tweet via:
Server JS
var twitter = new Twitter();
Meteor.methods({
postTweet: function (text) {
if(Meteor.user())
twitter.postTweet(text),
return true;
}
});
Client JS
//Use this in your click handler where you want to post a tweet:
Meteor.call("postTweet", "This is Twweeeeeetttt!", function(err,result) {
if(!err) {
alert("Tweet posted");
}
});
The api takes care of the user's oauth tokens so you don't have to worry too much