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I would like to reply to a 'target' tweet(s) using Twit on Node.js: But I have no clue?

So currently the tweet bot is;
var fs = require('fs'),
path = require('path'),
Twit = require('twit'),
config = require(path.join(__dirname, 'config.js'));
var T = new Twit(config);
function pick_random_countermagic(){
var countermagic = [
'Force-of-Will.jpg',
'Cryptic-Commad.jpg',
'Counterspell.jpg',
];
return countermagic[Math.floor(Math.random() * countermagic.length)];
}
function upload_random_image(){
console.log('Opening an image...');
var image_path = path.join(__dirname, '/countermagic/' + pick_random_countermagic()),
b64content = fs.readFileSync(image_path, { encoding: 'base64' });
console.log('Uploading an image...');
T.post('media/upload', { media_data: b64content }, function (err, data, response) {
if (err){
console.log('ERROR');
console.log(err);
}
else{
console.log('Uploaded an image!');
T.post('statuses/update', {
media_ids: new Array(data.media_id_string)
},
function(err, data, response) {
if (err){
console.log('Error!');
console.log(err);
}
else{
console.log('Posted an image!');
}
}
);
}
});
}
setInterval(
upload_random_image,
10000
);
All it does currently posts, at random an image, which is what I want, but instead of just posting it I would like it to post in reply to a targeted tweet from another twitter when that bot tweets, and or when the bot is active reply to all tweets that bot has tweeted that my bot has not already replied to... if you know what I mean.
This is my first time making a twitter bot, and technically my first time really using javascript and node.js. So yeah, I am just lost. So yeah any help would be insurmountably helpful.

You can retrieve mentions using statuses/mentions_timeline API and reply them using statuses/update API by passing mention's id in in_reply_to_status_id. Here is a simple example:
function replyMentions() {
// check for mentions
// you can add parameter 'since_id' to limit returns
T.get('statuses/mentions_timeline', { count: 100 }, function(err, data, response) {
if (data) {
data.forEach(function(mention) {
// reply if mention.id_str is not yet replied
reply = '#' + mention.user.screen_name + ' thanks for reaching out!'
T.post('statuses/update', { status: reply, in_reply_to_status_id: mention.id_str }, function(err, data, response) {
console.log(data)
// mark data.id_str as replied
})
})
}
})
}
You can add some additional logic to store replied id_str in database and use them to avoid redundant replies and limiting mentions retrieval (using since_id parameter).

nodejs does not emit data to client

I have simple nodejs app with sockets and I've faced an error where I can't find any solution. So I'm emiting from app to client and nothing happens there. Or client can't receive it - I don't know, because I can't check if it was successfully emited to client. This is the error I got when I tried to debug callback of emit:
Error: Callbacks are not supported when broadcasting
This my app code:
http.listen(6060, function () {
console.log("Listening on *: 6060");
});
io.set('authorization', function (handshakeData, accept) {
var domain = handshakeData.headers.referer.replace('http://', '').replace('https://', '').split(/[/?#]/)[0];
if ('***' == domain) {
accept(null, true);
} else {
return accept('You must be logged in to take an action in this site!', false);
}
});
io.use(function (sock, next) {
var handshakeData = sock.request;
var userToken = handshakeData._query.key;
if (typeof userToken !== null && userToken !== 0 && userToken !== '0' && userToken.length > 0) {
connection.query('***',
[xssfilter.filter(validator.escape(userToken))],
function (error, data) {
if (error) {
debug('Cant receive user data from database by token');
next(new Error('Failed to parse user data! Please login!'));
} else {
// load data to this user.
_updateUsers(xssfilter.filter(validator.escape(userToken)), 'add', data[0], sock.id);
_loadPreData();
next(null, true);
}
});
} else {
debug('Cant receive user token');
next(new Error('Failed to parse user data! Please login!'));
}
sock.on("disconnect", function () {
_updateUsers(false, 'remove', false, sock.id);
});
});
// we need to show people online count
io.emit('online-count', {
count: Object.keys(connectedUsers).length
});
And the function used above:
function _updateUsers(userToken, action, userData, sockedID) {
switch (action) {
case 'add':
connectedUsers[sockedID] = {...};
io.emit('online-count', io.emit('online-count', {
count: Object.keys(connectedUsers).length
}););
break;
case 'remove':
delete connectedUsers[sockedID];
io.emit('online-count', io.emit('online-count', {
count: Object.keys(connectedUsers).length
}););
break;
}
}
so after emiting online-count I should accept it on the client side as I'm doing it:
var socket;
socket = io(globalData.socketConn, {query: "key=" + globalData.userData.token});
socket.on('connect', function (data) {
console.log('Client side successfully connected with APP.');
});
socket.on('error', function (err) {
error('danger', 'top', err);
});
socket.on('online-count', function (data) {
console.log('Got online count: ' + data.count);
$('#online_count').html(data.count);
});
but the problem is with this online-count.. Nothing happens and it seems that it's not was even sent from node app. Any suggestions?

The problem was with my logic - I was sending online count only if new user were connecting/disconnecting. Problem were solved by adding function to repeat itself every few seconds and send online count to client side.

Object not a reference - Quickblox chat in phonegap

I am having trouble getting quickblox chat working on phonegap (javascript).I have used the revealing module pattern to expose instead of 'require' and this is the broken piece of code:
var chatParams = {
onConnectFailed: onConnectFailed,
onConnectSuccess: onConnectSuccess,
onConnectClosed: onConnectClosed,
onChatMessage: onChatMessage
};
QB.createSession(params, function(err, result) {
if (err==null) {
chatUser = {
id: result.user_id,
pass: params.password
};
connectChat(chatParams);
}
else {
alert("Something went wrong, please try again later or contact us at contact#domain.co.uk if the problem persists.");
}
});
function connectChat(chatParams) {
//This line here:
var chatService = new QBChat(chatParams);
console.log(chatService);
// connect to QB chat service
chatService.connect(chatUser);
};
I am getting the error 'object not a reference' at the highlighted line.
Please advise!

Try to use this code as an example to join chat:
QB.chat.connect({userId: user.id, password: user.pass}, function(err, roster) {
if (err) {
console.log(err);
} else {
console.log(roster);
}
});
instead of
function connectChat(chatParams) {
//This line here:
var chatService = new QBChat(chatParams);
console.log(chatService);
// connect to QB chat service
chatService.connect(chatUser);
};

Handling timeouts with Node.js and mongodb

I am currently testing how some code stands up against the following scenario:
Node.js application is started and successfully establishes a connection to mongodb
After it has successfully setup a connection, the mongodb server dies and all subsequent requests fail
To do this I have got the following code which makes use of the official driver (found here: https://github.com/mongodb/node-mongodb-native) :
MongoClient.connect('mongodb://localhost:27017/testdb', function(err, db) {
app.get('/test', function(req, res) {
db.collection('users', function (err, collection) {
console.log(err);
if (err) {
// ## POINT 1 ##
// Handle the error
}
else {
collection.find({ 'username': username }, { timeout: true }).toArray(function(err, items) {
console.log(err);
if (err) {
// ## POINT 2 ##
// Handle the error
}
else {
if (items.length > 0) {
// Do some stuff with the document that was found
}
else {
// Handle not finding the document
}
}
});
}
});
});
});
As the mongodb server is no longer running when the request is being handled, I'd made the assumption that at either the points which I have labelled ## POINT 1 ## or ## POINT 2 ##, it would return an error indicating a timeout; this however, isn't the case.
I have tried a number of different settings (including one you can see here that explicitly allows the cursor to timeout), however I cannot seem to enable it in any way. In every configuration I've tried Node.js will simply keep waiting for the find() operation to callback and it never does.
If I start the Node.js application before running mongodb, it catches the error in the connect callback fine, but if the connection dies after that it doesn't seem to handle it in any way.
Is there a setting I am missing or is there no way to detect connections being terminated after they've been established?
Edit: just to be clear, the username variable used in the find method is actually declared in my full code, the code I've put in this post is a cut down version to illustrate the structure and error checking.

UPD:
Based on this post, looks like they've deployed fix that will do the same as what we do here. Not sure if this is already within npm (15.10.13). https://github.com/mongodb/node-mongodb-native/issues/1092#ref-commit-2667d13
After some investigation I've managed to understand what is going on there:
Every time you call any method to deal with database (find, update, insert, etc.) it creates cursor, that has own ID and registers itself to EventEmitter of Db for being called back later. In meantime it registers itself to _notReplied object within same CallBackStore.
But once connection is closed, I couldn't locate anything that would iterate through _notReplied cursors and would trigger them with errors or any logic with timers (it still might be somewhere there). So I've managed to write small work around, that does force triggers cursors with error when DB emits close event:
new mongodb.Db('testdb', new mongodb.Server('localhost', 27017, { }), { safe: true }).open(function (err, db) {
if (!err) {
db.on('close', function() {
if (this._callBackStore) {
for(var key in this._callBackStore._notReplied) {
this._callHandler(key, null, 'Connection Closed!');
}
}
});
// ...
} else {
console.log(err)
}
});
I recommend using first approach instead of MongoClient. Reasons are few: for example when you close connection and then call .find it will properly trigger error in callback, while with MongoClient it won't.
If you are using MongoClient:
MongoClient.connect('mongodb://localhost:27017/testdb', function(err, db) {
if (!err) {
db.on('close', function() {
if (this._callBackStore) {
for(var key in this._callBackStore._notReplied) {
this._callHandler(key, null, 'Connection Closed!');
}
}
});
// ...
} else {
console.log(err);
}
});
What this will do? Once connection is closed, it will iterate through All _notReplied cursors and trigger events for them with error Connection Closed!.
Test case:
items.find({ }).toArray(function(err, data) {
if (!err) {
console.log('Items found successfully');
} else {
console.log(err);
}
});
db.close();
That will force close database connection and trigger close event that you handle earlier and will make sure that cursor will be closed.
UPD:
I've added Issue on GitHub: https://github.com/mongodb/node-mongodb-native/issues/1092 we'll see what they say regarding this.

I had the same problem, and found this page from google.
But your choosed answer didn't resolve the problem and it is as same as you, this._callBackStore can't use
but i tried to wrap the Mongo, and it seems work fine
var MongoClient = require('mongodb').MongoClient;
var mongo = {};
mongo.init = function() {
MongoClient.connect('mongodb://localhost:27017/testdb', function(err, db) {
if (err) {
mongo.DB = '';
} else {
mongo.DB = db;
}
db.on('close', function() {
mongo.DB = '';
});
db.on('reconnect', function() {
mongo.DB = db;
});
}
}
mongo.getdb = function(callback) {
if (mongo.DB) {
callback(null, mongo.DB);
} else {
callback('can not connect to db', null);
}
}
module.exports = mongo;
firstly start server and init() it
and then you can require it and use
mongo.getdb(function(err, db) {
if (err) {
console.log(err);
} else {
db.collection('user').find({'xxx':'xxx'}).toArray(function(err, items) {
console.log(items);
});
}
});

After some further investigation, it seems that you can't specify "offline" timeouts such as in the scenario outlined above. The only timeout that can be specified is one which informs the server to timeout the cursor after 10 minutes of inactivity, however as in the scenario above the connection to the server is down this does not work.
For reference, I found the information here: https://github.com/mongodb/node-mongodb-native/issues/987#issuecomment-18915263 by who I believed to be one of the main contributors to the project.

I'm making api with Hapi and Mongodb (w/o mongoose). Features:
Start responding to API request only if mongo db is available
Stop responding if mongo dies during cycle
Re-start when mongo available again
Keep single connection for all requests
Combining some ideas from other answers and this post https://productbuilder.wordpress.com/2013/09/06/using-a-single-global-db-connection-in-node-js/ my approach is this:
server.js
Utilities.initializeDb(() => {
server.start((err) => {
if (err) throw err;
console.log('Server running at:', server.info.uri);
});
}, () => {
server.stop((err) => {
if (err) throw err;
console.log('Server stopped');
});
});
Utilities.js
"use strict";
const MongoClient = require('mongodb').MongoClient;
const MongoUrl = 'mongodb://localhost:27017/db';
export const Utilities = {
initializeDb: (next, onCrash) => {
const ConnectToDatabase = (params) => {
MongoClient.connect(MongoUrl, (err, db) => {
if (err !== null) {
console.log('#t4y4542te Can not connect to mongo db service. Retry in 2 seconds. Try #' + params.retry);
console.error(err);
setTimeout(() => {
ConnectToDatabase({retry: params.retry + 1});
}, 2000);
} else {
db.on('close', () => {
onCrash();
console.log('#21df24sf db crashed!');
ConnectToDatabase({retry: 0});
});
global.db = global.db || db;
next();
}
});
};
ConnectToDatabase({retry: 0});
}
};
I'm exporting db connection to global space. It feels like not best solution, but I had projects where db connection was passed as param to all modules and that sucked more. Maybe there should be some modular approach where you import db connection where you need it, but in my situation i need it almost everywhere, I would have to write that include statement in most files. This API is pointless w/o connection to db, so I think it might be best solution even if I'm against having something flying magically in global space..

Redis connection close

Im using connect-domain and connect-redis. Below code checks for redis cache in Redis database.
function redis_get(key, req, res) {
var redisClient = redis.createClient();
redisClient.get(redisKey, function (err, data) {
if (err) {
console.log("Error in RedisDB");
}
else if (data == null) {
// Calling external function
}
else {
// Calling external function
}
redisClient.quit(); // Not working
});
}
When cache is not avaiable Im calling external function. I want redis connection to be closed once the cache check has been done.
redisClient.quit() // Not working
Any help on this will be really helpful.
Thanks

Below code is working fine without any problem.So check your status reply in the quit method if you get status as 'OK' means that method is working fine.
var redis=require('redis');
var redisClient = redis.createClient();
redisClient.get('name', function (err, data) {
if (err) {
console.log("Error in RedisDB");
}
else if (data == null) {
console.log('null');
}
else {
console.log(data);
}
redisClient.quit(redis.print);
});