/gatsby-source-twitter

Fetch data from Twitter API

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gatsby-source-twitter

Source plugin for pulling data into Gatsby from Twitter Search API.

How to use

// In your gatsby-config.js
module.exports = {
  plugins: [
    {
        resolve: `gatsby-source-twitter`,
        options: {           
            q: `@wesbos`,    
            credentials: {
                consumer_key: "INSERT_HERE_YOUR_CONSUMER_KEY",
                consumer_secret: "INSERT_HERE_YOUR_CONSUMER_SECRET",
                bearer_token: "INSERT_HERE_YOUR_BEARER_TOKEN"
            },
            tweet_mode: 'extended'
        }
    }
  ],
}

Plugin options

  • q: A search query. Reference to Twitter Search Tweets API
  • count: Number of tweet (default 100)
  • credential: You have to create an App on Twitter and creating a bearer token following this instructions using your consumer key and consumer secret
  • tweet_mode: Define how tweets are rendered. Possible values compat or extended (default: compat) More Details
  • result_type: Default mixed, could be mixed, recent or popular
  • fetchAllResults: Fetch all pages result

How to query your Tweets data using GraphQL

Below is a sample query for fetching all Tweets nodes.

query PageQuery {
    allTweet {
        edges {
            node {
                created_at
                full_text
                user {
                    name
                }
            }
        }
    }
}

Warning: id field is not the tweet id, but Gatbsy internal node id. Use id_str if you need to use the tweet id