Posting images to twitter in Node.js using Oauth - node.js

Question

I'm trying to post images to Twitter using the Oauth module. Here is what I have:
It throws a 403 error, I know im doing something wrong with how I add the media to the post but Im just not sure where to go from here.
var https = require('https');
var OAuth= require('oauth').OAuth;
var keys = require('./twitterkeys');
var twitterer = new OAuth(
"https://api.twitter.com/oauth/request_token",
"https://api.twitter.com/oauth/access_token",
keys.consumerKey,
keys.consumerSecret,
"1.0",
null,
"HMAC-SHA1"
);
var params = {
status : "Tiger!",
media : [("data:" + mimeType + ";base64,") + fs.readFileSync(path,'base64')]
};
//function(url, oauth_token, oauth_token_secret, post_body, post_content_type, callback)
twitterer.post("https://upload.twitter.com/1/statuses/update_with_media.json",
keys.token, keys.secret, params, "multipart/form-data",
function (error, data, response2) {
if(error){
console.log('Error: Something is wrong.\n'+JSON.stringify(error)+'\n');
}else{
console.log('Twitter status updated.\n');
console.log(response2+'\n');
}
});
Here is what I belive im supose to be doing but I don't know how to do that in the Node.js Oauth module.
Posting image to twitter using Twitter+OAuth

Answer 1

Reviewing the code, it looks like there's no multipart/form-data handling at all in the node-oauth package right now. You can still use the node-oauth function to create the authorization header, but you'll have to do the multipart stuff on your own.
There are probably third-party libraries that can help out with that, but here's how I got it to work constructed by hand.
var data = fs.readFileSync(fileName);
var oauth = new OAuth(
'https://api.twitter.com/oauth/request_token',
'https://api.twitter.com/oauth/access_token',
twitterKey, twitterSecret,
'1.0', null, 'HMAC-SHA1');
var crlf = "\r\n";
var boundary = '---------------------------10102754414578508781458777923';
var separator = '--' + boundary;
var footer = crlf + separator + '--' + crlf;
var fileHeader = 'Content-Disposition: file; name="media"; filename="' + photoName + '"';
var contents = separator + crlf
+ 'Content-Disposition: form-data; name="status"' + crlf
+ crlf
+ tweet + crlf
+ separator + crlf
+ fileHeader + crlf
+ 'Content-Type: image/jpeg' + crlf
+ crlf;
var multipartBody = Buffer.concat([
new Buffer(contents),
data,
new Buffer(footer)]);
var hostname = 'upload.twitter.com';
var authorization = oauth.authHeader(
'https://upload.twitter.com/1/statuses/update_with_media.json',
accessToken, tokenSecret, 'POST');
var headers = {
'Authorization': authorization,
'Content-Type': 'multipart/form-data; boundary=' + boundary,
'Host': hostname,
'Content-Length': multipartBody.length,
'Connection': 'Keep-Alive'
};
var options = {
host: hostname,
port: 443,
path: '/1/statuses/update_with_media.json',
method: 'POST',
headers: headers
};
var request = https.request(options);
request.write(multipartBody);
request.end();
request.on('error', function (err) {
console.log('Error: Something is wrong.\n'+JSON.stringify(err)+'\n');
});
request.on('response', function (response) {
response.setEncoding('utf8');
response.on('data', function (chunk) {
console.log(chunk.toString());
});
response.on('end', function () {
console.log(response.statusCode +'\n');
});
});