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Replying to a tweet using twit and Node.js

I am using the Twit Node.js API.
What I am trying to do is reply to a tweet that matches a certain keyword. I want my reply tweet to show up within the other tweet underneath. Like when you reply via app or website.
My code to do that is here:
var reply = function(tweet) {
var res = {
status: 'This is a tweet',
in_reply_to_status_id: tweet.id_str
};
twitter.post('statuses/update', res,
function(err, data, response) {
console.log(data);
}
);
}
The status is written correctly to the reply JSON but in_reply_to_status_id remains null. The tweet is posted to the bots account but not in reply to the tweet is is supposed to be replying to.
Why dos it not work?
And yes I have tried to write to in_reply_to_status_id_str and I have tryed to make the tweet.id_str a string.
I there anyone who knows what I am missing?
Thank you!
My response JSON is here:
{ created_at: 'Wed Jun 21 07:44:22 +0000 2017',
id: 877431986071142400,
id_str: '877431986071142400',
text: 'This is a tweet',
truncated: false,
entities: { hashtags: [], symbols: [], user_mentions: [], urls: [] },
source: 'Spatinator',
in_reply_to_status_id: null,
in_reply_to_status_id_str: null,
in_reply_to_user_id: null,
in_reply_to_user_id_str: null,
in_reply_to_screen_name: null,
If you need more of the respone JSON let me know.

The solution is to include a mention to tweet.user.screen_name into the status of the response json.
Like this it works:
var reply = function(tweet) {
var res = {
status: 'This is a tweet #' + tweet.user.screen_name,
in_reply_to_status_id: '' + tweet.id_str
};
twitter.post('statuses/update', res,
function(err, data, response) {
console.log(data);
}
);
}

Node requestify fails when body includes special chars

Im using node.js and a library called requestify.
The code looks like this:
console.log('body');
console.log(body);
return new Promise(function (f, r) {
requestify.request(myurl, {
method: 'POST',
body : body,
headers : {
"Content-Type" : "application/json; charset=utf-8"
}
})
.then(function (response) {
f({messge : "Success"});
}, function (err) {
console.log(err);
err.code == 405 ? r(err.body) : r({ success: false, message: err });
});
});
When the request contains special characters (in this case swedish characters) then it throws an error.
Sending exactly the same request without the swedish characters, the request succedes.
I dont really have access to the server that is handling the request that's why it is hard to debug.
But I print the body before sending the request and I cannot see any strange things in it.
Here are the 2 different body-requests:
//FAILURE
{ eventType: 'createUser',
eventId: '1e2ca3b4-0f6b-4ed9-ae79-2e112c8d693c',
version: '0.1',
date: 2016-10-07T06:42:26.209Z,
attributes:
{ userName: 'akeandersson#gmail.se',
email: 'akeandersson#gmail.se',
firstName: 'Åke',
lastName: 'Andresson',
phoneNumber: '1',
identifier: '198509120328',
assignment: 'se.me',
role: [ 'se.me.role.user' ] },
metadata: {} }
//SUCCESS
{ eventType: 'createUser',
eventId: '1e2ca3b4-0f6b-4ed9-ae79-2e112c8d693c',
version: '0.1',
date: 2016-10-07T06:44:09.857Z,
attributes:
{ userName: 'akeandersson212#gmail.se',
email: 'akeandersson212#gmail.se',
firstName: 'Ake',
lastName: 'Andresson',
phoneNumber: '9',
identifier: '196606095823',
assignment: 'se.me',
role: [ 'se.me.role.user' ] },
metadata: {} }
I also put "; charset=utf-8" in the header's content-type (by default it is already utf-8 according to requestify documentation).
But still the same result. Any idea how I could debug this?
This is what the server returns when the request fails:
{
code: 400,
headers:
{ connection: 'close',
'content-type': 'text/plain',
'content-length': '244',
date: 'Fri, 07 Oct 2016 06:42:27 GMT' },
body: 'Unexpected end-of-input: expected close marker for OBJECT (from [Source: ServletInputStreamImpl#75eb88e4; line: 1, column: 0])\n at [Source: ServletInputStreamImpl#75eb88e4; line: 1, column: 767]' }

I guess, you need to upload your requestify module to the most recent version. I use version 0.2.3 which doesn't throw me any error.
Assuming that you encounter an error while trying to read a norwegian (or) swedish character, I have tried reading a website which has norwegian characters in it, and with the below code, I'm able to output it to the console without any error. Same with a swedish page too. I'm using 0.2.3 version though (which is the most recent version). I have not set the encoding to UTF-8 too.
var requestify = require('requestify');
requestify.get('http://www.norwegian4people.com/lesson.php?id=41').then(function(response) {
// Get the response body
console.log(response.getBody());
});
Hope this helps!

Finding a document, editing it, and putting it back in MongoDB

I am using mongodb and I want to be able to edit a document and reinsert it WITHOUT duplicates. So far i have tried collection.findAndModify() but I couldn't get that to work. I have a collection like this:
UserProfiles = [
{
userProfileID: 1,
firstName: 'Austin',
lastName: 'Hunter',
email: 'ahun.....com',
token: '',
platform: '',
password: 'incorrect',
companyProfileID: 1,
authentication: '',
UserTopics: [
I want to be able to do this:
1 - grab the profile out of the object via searching for email match.
2 - when the email matches, edit the token and platform item.
3 - then put the document back in with no duplicates. So I can't just insert it again because that duplicates it.
Can anyone help me out on figuring this out?
Code:
function registerUser(email, token, platform) {
MongoClient.connect(url, function(err, db) {
if (err) {
console.log(err);
} else {
console.log("We are connected");
}
var collection = db.collection('UserProfile');
collection.findAndModify({
query: { email: email },
update: { token: token, platform: platform }
});
db.close();

modelname.findOneAndUpdate({ email: var_email}, { $set: { token: var_token, platform: var_platform}}, { new: true }, function(err, doc)
{
//doc here has updated document, in case you need it.
});
var_email etc. is your variable name and email is field name in
database.
{ new: true } - This part is used to fetch updated document, you can chose to not have this in your code but then you wont get updated document in response.

mc:edit do not work in Mailchimp template with Mandrill Javascript API

I'm trying to send emails through the Mandrill API with Mailchimp templates. I am doing this in the cloud code with Parse.com, see here https://www.parse.com/docs/cloud_modules_guide#mandrill. The emails are sent just fine, however, the mc:edit fields are never updated. This is the only content in the template now:
<span mc:edit="ship_id">ship_id</span>
This is what my call in Javascript looks like, hope somebody sees my mistake. I'm running this in Parse.com cloud code if that makes any difference. Thanks a lot!
var Mandrill = require('mandrill');
Mandrill.initialize('api-key');
Mandrill.sendTemplate({
template_name: "Drip campaign",
template_content: [{
name: "ship_id",
content:"Test Test"
}],
message: {
text: "Hi",
subject: "You have new mail",
from_email: "info#example.com",
from_name: "Thomas",
to: [
{
email: "answer#example.com",
name: "Fred"
}
],
"headers": {
"Reply-To": "answer#example.com"
},
"important": false,
"track_opens": true,
"track_clicks": true,
},
async: true
},{
success: function(httpResponse) {
response.success("Email sent!");
},
error: function(httpResponse) {
console.error(httpResponse);
response.error("Uh oh, something went wrong");
}
});
}

Ok, so there is nothing wrong with my code, but it seems like the templates are not sent properly from Mailchimp to Mandrill as adding fields such as |NAME| for merge tages or mc:edit="name" just were not populated. At least the code of the Mailchimp template is pretty weird and very nested.
For that reason, I would recommend using your own HTML here, where you enter the merge tages or mc:edits https://mandrillapp.com/templates/.

As far as I understand from your question that you want to send e-mail at the same time you want to dynamically edit the mail content. As you have already used, you can do it via the Mandrill API. I suggest you to use the js files which are downloadable in the link;
https://github.com/jlainog/parse-mandrill-sendTemplate
From the js file in the github account, you can dynamically edit the mail content(must be in your template) via using the tag mc:edit.
For my case working copy of code is below;
Parse.Cloud.define("sendMail", function(request, response) {
var Mandrill = require('cloud/mandrillSend.js');
var sentTo = //Mail address to sent
var subject = //Mail Subject
var fromEmail = //From email
var fromName = //From Name
var sentToName = //Parameters from request
var fullName = //Full Name
Mandrill.initialize('YOUR MANDRILL API KEY');
Mandrill.sendTemplate({
template_name: "MANDRIL TEMPLATE",
template_content: [
{
name: "nameHeader",
content: sentToName,
},
{
name: "mail",
content: sentTo,
},
],
"key": "YOUR MANDRILL API KEY",
message: {
subject: subject,
from_email: fromEmail,
from_name: fromName,
to: [{
email: sentTo,
name: fullName
}],
important: true
},
async: false
}, {
success: function (httpResponse) {
console.log(httpResponse);
response.success("Email sent!");
},
error: function (httpResponse) {
console.error(httpResponse);
response.error("Uh oh, something went wrong");
}
});
});
For example, in Mandrdil Template there is a span with the id;
<span mc:edit="mail"> test#gmail.com</span>
Hope this helps.
Regards.

Sails.js Mandrill api error

I'm using the sails-mandrill module for a sails.js app. I'm having trouble sending the email. I keep getting this error:
to must be specified, e.g.:
{ to: { email: "foo#bar.com", name: "Mr. Foo Bar" } }
I have my code formatted exactly like that and can't figure out why its still giving me the error.
var email = require('sails-mandrill');
var recipients = [{
email: 'name#email.com',
name: 'John Smith'
}];
email.send({
to: recipients,
subject: 'Test Email',
html:
'I can\'t wait to see you all in Chicago<br/>' +
'I loe you so much!!!! ',
text: 'text fallback goes here-- in case some recipients (let\'s say the Chipettes) can\'t receive HTML emails'
}, function optionalCallback (err) {
if (err) {
console.log(err);
}
});