T/W/I/M/G

Browse twitter home timeline by media only

🚧 Abandoned project. I no longer have a Twitter account, for obvious reasons

One-page website that renders tweets from your home timeline that have media attached (image, video). Images shown in a large format, easy to right-click-save or save to Dropbox.

Development

Create and configure .env file, install dependencies and run using vercel dev:

$ cp .env.example .env
$ npm i
$ npm run dev:vercel

Production

Deploy with Vercel. You can set environment variables in your Vercel app with the exact same keys as in the .env file.

Notes

• Twitter consumer key/secret is gained by creating a Twitter app with your Twitter developer account.
• Dropbox tokens can be created in a Dropbox app.
• Sessions are stored in an UpStash Redis Database with TLS encryption.
• Twitter limits user requests to 15 per 15 minutes. 200 tweets can be retrieved from the API at a time, with a max of 800. The ‘media only’-filtering done in this app will reduce that number further.

Tech

• Runs on Vercel
• Templating with Mustache
• That’s about it

Todo

• Dropbox oAuth login instead of access token
• Saving image api endpoint should check for Accept header to return JSON or HTML
• Write proper unit tests for Dropbox instance
• Let error handling middleware handle Dropbox errors as well as Twitter
• Redis instance shouldn’t export initClient
• Refactor redis-instance to session manager
• Refactor cookie script and let session be an actual session cookie
• Update cookie expiry after succesful authentication
• Lazy loading of images
• Use smaller image assets for display, larger when saving

License

MIT