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
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
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
# fill secrets.env (see next readme section)
source secrets.env
python main.py
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!
set the vars in docker run command using -e (you can set the optional vars too), then ENJOY!!
docker run -d --name=twitter_bot --restart=always \
-e TELEGRAM_BOT_TOKEN=<insert your telegram token> \
-e TWITTER_CONSUMER_KEY=<insert your twitter consumer key here> \
-e TWITTER_CONSUMER_SECRET=<insert your twitter consumer secret here> \
-v twitter-data:/bot/ \
salarn14/telegram-twitter-forwarder-bot
set the vars in docker-compose.yml file and simply run this, again ENJOY!!
docker-compose up -d