tapi: A weibo(like twitter) API SDK, use on browser client and nodejs server.

Supports:

• twitter: http://twitter.com/
• facebook: http://facebook.com/
• fanfou: http://fanfou.com/
• digu: http://digu.com/
• zuosa: http://zuosa.com/
• tsina: http://t.sina.com.cn/
• tqq: http://t.qq.com/
• tsohu: http://t.sohu.com/
• t163: http://t.163.com/
• renjian: http://renjian.com/
• leihou: http://leihou.com/
• plurk: http://plurk.com/

tapi SDK api base on tsina(weibo) api document: http://open.weibo.com/

Requires:

• browser client: jquery(for ajax request)
• server: nodejs

Nodejs Install

$ npm install weibo

How to use

Browser

// Include the `weibo.js` javascript files:

<script type="text/javascript" src="../weibo.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript">
// load all the lib scripts with urlprefix where the `weibo` directory you put into 
weibo.load('/public/js/weibo');
</script>

var tapi = weibo.tapi;
var appkey = 'your appkey', secret = 'your app secret';
var oauth_callback_url = 'your callback url' || 'oob';
tapi.init('tsina', appkey, secret, oauth_callback_url);
tapi.public_timeline({}, function(error, data, xhr) {
    if(error) {
        console.error(error);
    } else {
        console.log(data);
    }
});

Server

var tapi = require('weibo').tapi;
// change appkey to yours
var appkey = 'your appkey', secret = 'your app secret';
var oauth_callback_url = 'your callback url' || 'oob';
tapi.init('tsina', appkey, secret, oauth_callback_url);
tapi.public_timeline({}, function(error, data, response) {
    if(error) {
        console.error(error);
    } else {
        console.log(data);
    }
});

Use oauth_middleware

handler oauth login middleware, use on connect, express.

params: function oauth_middleware(login_callback, options)

`login_callback`:
    where login success callback: login_callback(oauth_user, referer, req, res, after_callback)
    you MUST save user info in login_callback.
`options`: {
    `home_url`: use to create login success oauth_callback url with referer header, 
        default is `'http://' + req.headers.host`;
    `login_path`: login url, default is '/oauth'
    `logout_path`: default is '/oauth/logout'
    `callback_path`: default is login_path + '_callback'
    `blogtype_field`: default is 'blogtype', 
        if you want to connect weibo, login url should be '/oauth?blogtype=tsina'
    `error_callback`: function(error, referer, user, req, res, next), 
        if you want to handler error by yourselft.
}

Example:

var weibo = require('weibo')
  , home_url = 'http://localhost';
weibo.init('tsina', appkey, secret);
app.use(weibo.oauth_middleware(function(oauth_user, referer, req, res, callback) {
    // do something ...
    // save oauth_user
    db.save_user(oauth_user);
    // use auth redirect, just callback(), return to login referer page.
    // otherwise, callback(true), and handler redirect by yourself
    callback();
}));

Node Gtap Twitter API Proxy Server

var start_gtap = require('weibo').start_gtap;