gatsby-source-twitter

Source plugin for pulling threads into Gatsby from Twitter Search API. Useful for creating blog posts out of Twitter threads.

Example

See gatsby-twitter-threads-demo as an example of creating blog posts using this plugin.

How to use

Install

yarn install gatsby-source-twitter-threads

Get API Access

To start using this plugin you have to create an App on the developer portal and then provide the consumer_key (API Key), consumer_secret (API Secret), and the handle (without the @) in the gatsby-config.js file:

// In your gatsby-config.js
module.exports = {
  plugins: [
    {
      resolve: `gatsby-source-twitter-threads`,
      options: {
        credentials: {
          consumer_key: "INSERT_HERE_YOUR_CONSUMER_KEY",
          consumer_secret: "INSERT_HERE_YOUR_CONSUMER_SECRET",
        },
        user: `my-twitter-handle`,
      },
    },
  ],
}

• credentials: API Key and API Secret from Twitter Developer Portal.
• user: Twitter handle for your account.

How to query your conversations using GraphQL

Get All Conversations/Threads

query GetAllConversations {
  allTwitterConversation {
    nodes {
      id
      text
    }
  }
}

Get Single Conversation/Thread

  query GetConversation($id: String!) {
    twitterConversation(id: {eq: $id}) {
      id
      text
    }
  }

Limitations

Currently, Twitter only allows searching the entire Tweet archive when the app is for “Academic Purposes.” This will only provide the conversations from the past 7 days.

Potential Workaround

While this is not implemented in this package, a workaround to this limitation would be to fork the gatsby-node.js file and do the following:

1. Ensure you have a database that can store the entire thread archive from this point going forward (and an API to interact with it).
2. Before calling createNodes (after getting the latest threads), post the latest threads to the database (via a POST request).
3. Then, fetch all the conversations from the database (via a GET request).
4. Finally, call createNodes with the entire archive of threads (not just the latest ones returned by the Twitter client).