help with tumblr.js for a newbie

[Matthew]

Hi all,

Please forgive my ignorance but I'm literally just starting to learn Javascript. What I'm just trying to do right now is download the tumblr.js code (https://github.com/tumblr/tumblr.js) and get it to run. Here's the code I have so far:

var tumblr = require('tumblr.js');
var client = tumblr.createClient({
  consumer_key: '<consumer key>',
  consumer_secret: '<consumer secret>',
  token: '<oauth token>',
  token_secret: '<oauth token secret>'
});

client.userInfo(function (err, data) {
    data.blogs.forEach(function (blog) {
        console.log(blog.name);
    });
});

This is just how it's set up in the README. However, when I run the code I get an error saying that request.get is not found on 'undefined' (that's not the exact wording). 
I understand why this error occurs - in /bin/tumblr.js var request is defined (line 8) but never initialised and it's trying to use request.get on line 162. 
I see that you can initialise it sort of like we initialised client above but I have no idea about how to do that or what I'm supposed to initialise it to. 
Am I just missing something simple or am I not understanding something on a deeper level? I don't really understand what the
modules.exports 'object' is either. Again, sorry for my ignorance but I'm just learning this stuff. 

FYI, I do have a valid consumer key/secret as well as oauth token/secret. I've also installed node.js.

Thanks so much for any help you can provide!

[John Crepezzi]

If you download the tumblr code instead of pulling it in from `npm`, you need to require('path/to/it/index.js'), not tumblr.js

hope this helps!

[Matthew]

Ah, that makes sense and that helped a little bit! But now I'm getting a different error saying that it can't find the module 'request'. Here's the trace:

module.js:340

    throw err;

          ^

Error: Cannot find module 'request'

    at Function.Module._resolveFilename (module.js:338:15)

    at Function.Module._load (module.js:280:25)

    at Module.require (module.js:364:17)

    at require (module.js:380:17)

    at Object.<anonymous> (<PATH REDACTED>/github/tumblr.js/index.js:2:16)

    at Module._compile (module.js:456:26)

    at Object.Module._extensions..js (module.js:474:10)

    at Module.load (module.js:356:32)

    at Function.Module._load (module.js:312:12)

    at Module.require (module.js:364:17)

Any help with this one? And I didn't quite have the right code before (I didn't have access to the file and was going off of memory). The actual code is below.

This is a file that I've called tumblrpractice.js and is in the root directory of the tumbr.js folder I downloaded from Github.

var tumblr = require('./index.js');

var client = tumblr.createClient({

  consumer_key: '<REDACTED>',

  consumer_secret: '<REDACTED',

  token: '<REDACTED>',

  token_secret: '<REDACTED>'

});

client.blogInfo('<BLOG NAME>.tumblr.com', function (err, data) {

    data.blogs.forEach(function (blog) {

        console.log(blog.name);

    });

});

Thanks!

[John Crepezzi]

Run `npm install`.

[Matthew]

Yup! Looks like I was just missing the request package in my tumblr.js folder. I just had to navigate to that folder in Terminal and run `npm install request`.

Thanks so much!

[John Crepezzi]

npm install would cover you - installs all packages that are listed as dependencies in package.json

thanks!

[Matthew]

Good to know, thanks!

[Matthew]

I hope you don't mind me bugging you some more. I was able to successfully use the blogInfo and userInfo methods. However, I can't figure out what I'm not doing correctly on the text(blogName, options, callback) method?

Here's my code:

client.text('matthewjanssen', { title: 'This is a test',

                                body: 'This is a test of the tumblr javascript API',

                                tweet: 'off',

                                format: 'markdown',

                                tags: 'comma, separated, list, of, tags'}, function (err, success) {

    console.log(success);

});

I'm thinking my options object isn't correct. On line 173 of /lib/tumblr.js the var data ends up being undefined. I printed params directly to the console and everything's there (as shown above) but apparently params.data doesn't get anything...

Thanks for being so patient as I'm learning this.

[John Crepezzi]

No problem - `data` is only for photo, audio & video posts - since the client has to send file-type components slightly different

What error are you seeing?

[Matthew]

Ah, ok the `data` makes sense.
Well, I'm not really getting an error (that I can see). It's just that the console.log(success) prints undefined. And the post isn't making it all the way through because I don't see it on my blog. But other than that, I don't get an error.

[John Crepezzi]

Does console.log(err) show something? :)

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[Matthew]

API error: 401 Not Authorized.
Well, I never really went through a procedure to get my oauth_token and oauth_token_secret. So I guess what I'm using is invalid. And OAuth is something that I know even less about than what I'm doing now.

Thanks.

[John Crepezzi]

Cool - let us know if you have more questions;

It's fairly easy to use the ruby client at https://github.com/codingjester/tumblr_client to generate yourself a token and secret

gem install tumblr_client

bin/tumblr # follow the flow

cat ~/.tumblr # look at the keys

[Matthew]

Holy macaroni! I finally got it working! I can't thank you enough for all of your help!

[Jerry Mo]

I am new to this API.

I got a error message:

ReferenceError: require is not defined

var tumblr = require('https://npmjs.org/package/tumblr.js');

Is there some one can help, thanks

Jerry

[Jonathanmv]

You need to run the examples from a nodejs environment like node console