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twitter-validate

benderham141.0.8

A Twitter handle validation tool. Checks whether a provided handle meets Twitter's handle criteria. Also provides a method to check whether a provided twitter handle already exists online.

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Twitter Validate

A Twitter handle validation tool. Checks whether a provided handle meets Twitter's handle criteria. Also provides a method to check whether a provided twitter handle already exists online.

Installation

$ npm install twitter-validate

Usage

Name	Type	Description
handle	string	The Twitter handle to validate against Twitter specification
returns	boolean	Whether handle is valid

validate(handle);

Name	Type	Description
handle	string	The Twitter handle to check existence of
handleExists	boolean	Whether the handle exists on Twitter

exists(handle, function(handleExists){});

Example

var validate = require('twitter-validate').validate;
var exists = require('twitter-validate').exists;

validate("@benderham88") // boolean

exists("@benderham88", function(handleExists){
    handleExists // boolean
});