Connection refused

[NHQ]

Hiya,

I tried throwing this in a quick app, but am getting connection refused and I can't figure out why. I read thru the module. I guess twitter is refusing the connection?

Error: ECONNREFUSED, Connection refused
    at Client._onConnect (net.js:601:18)
    at IOWatcher.onWritable [as callback] (net.js:186:12)

I've tried variously tracking and following. I also tried using the NPM version and a repo-cloned version, which I noticed had some big differences, one of them being http vs https. Niether worked, both returned the same error above. I also tried running the module on its own, not wrapped in an express app, as below. The app, mostly from your example:

var express = require('express');

var TwitterNode = require('twitter-node').TwitterNode
  , sys         = require('sys');

var app = module.exports = express.createServer();


var twit = new TwitterNode({
  user: 'astromanies', 
  password: '###',
  host: '74....',  
  port: 8000,                          
  track: ['baseball', 'football'],    
});

twit.addListener('error', function(error) {
  console.log(error.message);
});

twit
  .addListener('tweet', function(tweet) {
    sys.puts("@" + tweet.user.screen_name + ": " + tweet.text);
  })

  .addListener('limit', function(limit) {
    sys.puts("LIMIT: " + sys.inspect(limit));
  })

  .addListener('delete', function(del) {
    sys.puts("DELETE: " + sys.inspect(del));
  })

  .addListener('end', function(resp) {
    sys.puts("wave goodbye... " + resp.statusCode);
  })
  .stream();

// Configuration

app.configure(function(){
  app.set('views', __dirname + '/views');
  app.set('view engine', 'jade');
  app.use(express.bodyParser());
  app.use(express.methodOverride());
  app.use(app.router);
  app.use(express.static(__dirname + '/public'));
});

app.configure('development', function(){
  app.use(express.errorHandler({ dumpExceptions: true, showStack: true })); 
});

app.configure('production', function(){
  app.use(express.errorHandler()); 
});

app.listen(8080);
console.log("Express server listening on port %d in %s mode", app.address().port, app.settings.env);

[dustin10]

Hi. I submitted the patch for connecting over https and it is working for me. The only difference is that I am using the default host and port.

[jorgeguberte]

The patch indeed fixed the issue but the npm package isn't patched yet, as of October 9th.

[anthonywebb]

Still not updated :(

[Tmeister]

Hi, i have the same problem.

[dustin10]

You need to clone the repo instead of using npm. The npm package does not contain the https fix.

[Tmeister]

Thanks @dustin10

FYI

If you need to use npm to deploy via package.json you can get the source from the last commit using something like this:

{
"name": "Your-app"
, "version": "0.0.1"
, "dependencies": {
"twitter-node": "https://github.com/technoweenie/twitter-node/tarball/ec4eb261891d78a88faabea54ea1016fd884b804"
}
}

Cheers..

[jorgeguberte]

@Tmeister Great!