ntwitter: stop listening on stream events after X callback

Question

//Totally new to node.js

I'm using ntwitter to listen on twitter statuses. How can I stop listening after X callback were called?

 var twittsCounter = 0;
 twit.stream('statuses/filter', {track:['cool','awesome','fuck yeah!']}, function(stream) {
  stream.on('data', function (tweet) {
    twittsCounter += 1;
    console.log(twittsCounter + ":" + tweet.text);
    if (twittsCounter > 100){
      //stop listening? 
    }

  });

score 3 · Accepted Answer · answered Nov 24 '13 at 16:27

Factor your event handler into a separate function. Then use

stream.on('data', myDataHandler)

... and in myDataHandler just use stream.removeListener('data', myDataHandler).

stream is "just" an EventEmitter, here are the docs: http://nodejs.org/api/events.html

ntwitter: stop listening on stream events after X callback

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