Zapier JavaScript Integration with Twitter API - How to POST Retweet for a Specific Tweet

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I have a JavaScript code snippet designed for Zapier that allows for a ‘like’ action on a specific tweetId. I’m attempting to adjust the code so that it executes a ‘retweet’ action instead. Below is the current code:

var consumerKey = 'YourConsumerKey';
var consumerSecret = 'YourConsumerSecret';
var accessToken = 'YourAccessToken';
var accessTokenSecret = 'YourTokenSecret';

function generateSignature(key, data) {
  // Signature generation logic...
}

var tweetId = input.tweet_id;

// Generate unique nonce
function createNonce(length) {
    var characters = 'ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZabcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz0123456789';
    var nonce = '';

    for (var i = 0; i < length; i++) {
        nonce += characters.charAt(Math.floor(Math.random() * characters.length));
    }
    return nonce;
}

var nonce = createNonce(32);
var timestamp = Math.floor(Date.now() / 1000);

// Set up the API call for liking a tweet
var requestUrl = 'https://api.twitter.com/1.1/favorites/create.json?id=' + tweetId;

fetch(requestUrl, {
  method: 'POST',
  headers: {
    'Authorization': 'OAuth oauth_consumer_key="' + consumerKey + '"...'
  }
})
.then(response => response.json())
.then(result => callback(null, result))
.catch(error => callback(error));

I believed that changing the following line:

var requestUrl = 'https://api.twitter.com/1.1/favorites/create.json?id=' + tweetId;

to:

var requestUrl = 'https://api.twitter.com/1.1/statuses/' + tweetId + '.json';

based on Twitter’s documentation would do the trick, but it seems to be ineffective. Can someone point out where I might be going wrong?

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Yeah, so what you need to do is change the request URL to

var requestUrl = 'https://api.twitter.com/1.1/statuses/retweet/' + tweetId + '.json';

That’s the endpoint for retweeting. And also, make sure your app has permissions to read+write tweets. check those scopes!