Neatweets

Generate art from your tweets.

Usage

var Fs = require('fs'),
    Neatweets = require('neatweets'),
    tweets,
    canvas;

tweets = JSON.parse(/* json from Twitter */);

canvas = Neatweets.generate(tweets, {
    width: 300,
    height: 300
});

canvas.toBuffer();

Fs.writeFile('neatweets.png', canvas.toBuffer());

Options

width: width of canvas, default 400

height: height of canvas, default 550

padding: width/height of white frame, default 40

grid: grid size to align triangles to, default 20

max_size: maximum size of triangles, default 80

min_size: minimum size of triangles, default 20

transparency: transparency of triangles, default 0.4

title: title text, default 'Neatweets'

credit: credit text, {username} will be replaced with twitter username, default 'http://cleverchris.com/neatweets#{username}'

el: existing canvas instance, one will be created if you don't provide one.

Server Example

var Neatweets = require('neatweets'),
    Http = require('http'),
    Fs = require('fs');

Http.get({
    host:'api.twitter.com',
    path: '/1/statuses/user_timeline.json?include_entities=true&include_rts=true&screen_name=chrisjaure&count=190'
}, function(res){
    var body = '';
    res.on('data', function(chunk){

        body += chunk.toString('utf8');

    }).on('end', function(){
        var tweets,
            canvas;

        tweets = JSON.parse(body);

        canvas = Neatweets.generate(tweets);

        Fs.writeFile('neatweets.png', canvas.toBuffer());
    });

});