urmaul/telegram-twitter-forwarder-bot repository overview

⁠telegram-twitter-forwarder-bot

Hello! This projects aims to make a Telegram⁠ bot that forwards Twitter⁠ updates to people, groups, channels, or whatever Telegram comes up with!

You can check it on Telegram: @TwitterForwarderBot⁠

In this fork I was mostly removing features. Now bot doesn't store information of your subscriptions. Instead it requires you to login via twitter and then just forwards your home timeline to telegram.

Differences in this fork:

• Login via twitter is required.
• Subscriptions list always matches your twitter subscriptions.
• You don't receive mention tweets from your subscriptions anymore.
• Extended tweet format is used.
• Small updates in telegram message format.

⁠Credit where credit is due

This is based on former work:

• python-telegram-bot⁠
• tweepy⁠
• peewee⁠
• envparse⁠
• also, python, pip, the internets, and so on

So, big thanks to anyone who contributed on these projects! :D

⁠How do I run this?

The code is currently targeting Python 3.5

# clone this thing
# create your virtualenv, activate it, etc
# virtualenv -p python3 venv
# . venv/bin/activate
pip install -r requirements.txt
source secrets.env
python main.py

⁠secrets.env?? u wot m8?

First, you'll need a Telegram Bot Token, you can get it via BotFather (more info here⁠).

Also, setting this up will need an Application-only authentication token from Twitter (more info here⁠). Optionally, you can provide a user access token and secret.

You can get this by creating a Twitter App here⁠.

Bear in mind that if you don't have added a mobile phone to your Twitter account you'll get this:

Get a consumer key, consumer secret, access token and access token secret (the latter two are optional), fill in your secrets.env and then run the bot!