Building your first Twitter bot

Let's build a simple Twitter bot. This bot will listen to tweets and pick out those that have a particular hashtag. All the tweets with a given hashtag will be printed on the console. This is a very simple bot to help us get started. In the following sections, we will explore more complex bots.

1. Go to the root directory and create a new Node.js program using npm init:

2. Execute the npm install twitter --save command to install the Twitter Node.js library:

Run npm install request --save to install the Request library as well. We will use this in the future to make HTTP GET requests to a news data source.

3. Explore your package.json file in the root directory:

{
  "name": "twitterbot",
  "version": "1.0.0",
  "description": "my news bot",
  "main": "index.js",
  "scripts": {
    "test": "echo \"Error: no test specified\" && exit 1"
  },
  "author": "",
  "license": "ISC",
  "dependencies": {
    "request": "^2.81.0",
    "twitter": "^1.7.1"
  }
}

4. Create an index...