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twitter-riak.js fails #1

Open milespomeroy opened 12 years ago

milespomeroy commented 12 years ago

Tried running twitter-riak.js it failed without an error. I installed the twitter-node and riak-js modules globally and changed the script to reference those and then it failed with, ECONNREFUSED. It seems to be related to the twitter-node module and recent changes to the twitter streaming api. I ended up using sethew's fork and, with some twitter api tokens, got it working: https://github.com/sethew/nosql-handbook-examples.git

roidrage commented 12 years ago

Thanks for reporting!

The problem with the HTTPS connection is that there was never an official update release from the twitter-node library that included the fixes to actually use HTTPS. Which is exactly why the example code includes a vendored version of it. The problem I have with the code that uses ntwitter is that users must have full OAuth credentials at the ready, which significantly increases the entrance barrier to using the code. Currently Twitter doesn't seem to have any specific plans to deprecate Basic Auth for the streaming API, so I'd rather stick to something that requires just the username and password.

I'm open to suggestions. twitter-node is obviously abandoned by now, but it still sort of works, unfortunately not when installed globally via npm.

davisford commented 12 years ago

as a point of reference, i just did a git clone on your repo, and ran twitter-riak.js without an issue.