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I'm trying to track tweets via Twitter Streams API using NodeJS , but I'm facing this problem :

undefined:1

SyntaxError: Unexpected token <
    at Object.parse (native)
    at IncomingMessage.<anonymous> (C:\Users\ADiL-\Desktop\nodejs\twitter\tweets.js:1
7:20)

This is my code :

var https = require("https");

var option={
host : "stream.twitter.com",
path : "/1.1/statuses/filter.json?track=bieber",
method : "GET",
headers : {
"Authorization" : "Basic "+ new Buffer("username:password").toString("base64")
}
};

var request = https.request(option,function(response){

var body = '';

response.on("data", function(chunk){
     body += chunk;
    var tweet = JSON.parse(body);
    console.log("Tweet : " + tweet.text);
});

response.on("end", function(){
    console.log("disconnected");
});

   response.on("error", function(){
      console.log("error occured");
     });
});
request.end();

and when I delete the parse and show only the chunk it give that error :

<html>\n<head>\n<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"/>\
n<title>Error 401 Unauthorized</title>
</head>
<body>
<h2>HTTP ERROR: 401</h2>
<p>Problem accessing '/1.1/statuses/filter.json?track=bieber'. Reason:
<pre>    Unauthorized</pre>
</body>
</html>
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and I'm sure the username and password are correct ; PS : password contains only letters and numbers ( no characters ) – ADiL Aug 7 '14 at 10:57
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so no one answered I did my effort and I found a solution , using the ntwitter module , and it works , here is the code if any one stuck in it in the future ...

first of all install the ntwitter module using : 

npm install ntwitter

and this is the code : 

var twitter = require("ntwitter");

var t = new twitter({
consumer_key: ' ',
consumer_secret: ' ',
access_token_key: ' ',
access_token_secret: ' ' 
});

var i = 0;

t.stream(
'statuses/filter',
{track : ["awesome","nodejs","other_keywords"]},
function(data){
    data.on("data",function(tweets){
        i++;
        console.log("Tweet ",i," : ",tweets.text);
    });
}
);
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