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!

It was once hosted on Telegram as @TwitterForwarderBot which doesn't work anymore. There are a few other instances running around:

• (add a Pull Request linking to your instance here!)

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

1. clone this thing
2. fill secrets.env (see next readme section)
3. create your virtualenv, activate it, etc, e.g.:

   virtualenv -p python3 venv
   . venv/bin/activate
   . secrets.env
   

4. pip install -r requirements.txt
5. run it! 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:

You must add your mobile phone to your Twitter profile before creating an application. Please read https://support.twitter.com/articles/110250-adding-your-mobile-number-to-your-account-via-web for more information.

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

Setting up cronjob

contributed by @llg, thanks!

Make sure crontab user have write access to venv directory

1. use examples/cron-run.sh script in cron: * * * * * cd /path/to/telegram-twitter-forwarder-bot && examples/cron-run.sh >> /dev/null 2>&1
2. you can change time for checking to any you want