motd.js

// Module of the Day randomizer
var qs = require('querystring')
	, http = require('http')
	, npm = require('npm');

// use API to search npm, randomizing the result I get each time. 

var search = process.argv.slice(2).join(' ').trim(); // is pulling the id which is required from the Twitter API

if (!search.length) {
	return console.log('\n Usage: node tweets <search term>\n'); 
}

console.log('\n searching for: \033[96m' + search + '\033[39m\n');

http.request({
		host: 'search.twitter.com'
	, path: '/search.json?' + qs.stringify({ q:search })
}, function (res) {
	var body = '';
	res.setEncoding('utf8');
	res.on('data', function (chunk) {
		body += chunk;
	});
	res.on('end', function () {
		var obj = JSON.parse(body)
		obj.results.forEach(function (tweet) {
			console.log(' \033[90m' + tweet.text + '\033[39m');
			console.log('	\033[94m' + tweet.from_user + '\033[39m');
			console.log('--');
		})
	})
}).end();