Twitter Telegram Forward
A Bot that Forwards Tweets to Telegram using Airtable as a Database.
Features:
- Handles multiple twitter and telegram channels.
- Custom delay for each entry.
- Automatically embeds images and videos to telegram.
- ReTweets can be enabled or disabled.
- Sends telegram messages with silent notifications.
Setup
Airtable Database
- Create an (Airtable Account
- Create a new Workspace.
- Add a new base and import the "Twitter Telegram.csv" file. Or create from scratch using the template below:
id(Single Line Text),Twitter(Single Line Text),Telegram(Single Line Text),Tweet-ID(Single Line Text), RT(Checkbox),Silent(Checkbox),Delay(Number) - Get the Airtable ID:
- pressing the "?" icon near "HELP" (Top Right).
- Clicking on "API Documentation".
- Copy the ID in the middle of the page after the words "The ID of this base is ".
- Add the ID to the DB_AIRTABLE_ID in the config file. Note: Omit the do at the end.
- Get your Airtable API Key:
- Go to https://airtable.com/account
- Your API Key should be under "API"
- Add the API Key to the API_KEY in the config file.
Telegram Bot
- You can create a new bot via (@BotFather).
- Add the Bot token you got to the BOT_TOKEN in the config file.
Twitter API
- You 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
config.py.
Running the Bot
pip install -r requirements.txt- Run it!
python main.py(Check the Filling the Airtable Base section before.)
Filling the Airtable Base
- Both Twitter and Telegram fields should start with @.
- Private channels or normal user chats can also be used. You can get the ID using @JsonDumpBot.
- No need to start with a @ in this case.
- The Tweet-ID field can be left empty. On the first run, the bot will fill it with the latest tweet ID.
- RT Field need to be checked in order to forward Retweets.
- Delay field is in seconds. If left empty, it will be set to 360 seconds.
- After adding a new row in the airtable, the bot needs to be restarted. If a row is changed, the bot does NOT need to be restarted.
TODO
- Create Heroku Auto Setup.
- Setup Cron in order to keep bot running
- Create Logic for Replies (Only forward user threads).
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