franciscod / telegram-twitter-forwarder-bot

A Telegram bot that forwards Tweets

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
• also, python, pip, the internets, and so on

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

How do I run this?

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

   virtualenv -p python3 venv
   . venv/bin/activate
   

4. pip install -r requirements.txt
5. run it! python main.py

secrets.py?? what is that?

This bot requires a few tokens that identify it both on Twitter and Telegram. This configuration should be present on the secrets.py file.

There's a skeleton of that on example-secrets.py, start by copying it to secrets.py. The second one is the one you should change.

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.py, 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

telegram-twitter-forwarder-bot's Issues

Posting in Telegram Channel

Is there a solution so that the bot is able to post in channels? As long as the bot cant read messages so /sub is redundant?

would you please help me on installing the bot on an EC2?

Thank you very much for your code!
when i install it in an ubuntu@EC2 following the instruction, I got this error, Would you like to read it and give me some suggetion. Thank you!

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "main.py", line 4, in <module>
    from bot import TwitterForwarderBot, FetchAndSendTweetsJob
  File "/home/ubuntu/telegram-twitter-forwarder-bot/bot.py", line 9, in <module>
    from basebot import BaseBot, Job
  File "/home/ubuntu/telegram-twitter-forwarder-bot/basebot.py", line 98
    command, *args = text[1:].split()
             ^
SyntaxError: invalid syntax

tw_users is len 0 all the time

Can someone help me as i don't seem to be getting any updates through to my bot when i post a new tweet on my feed.
I am new to all this so help would be appreciated

A bug found

Hi
I am using Python 3.5 on Cent OS 6.

I faced the following error when trying to run it

$ python main.py
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "main.py", line 9, in
from bot import TwitterForwarderBot
File "/home/syko/telegram/telegram-twitter-forwarder-bot/bot.py", line 9, in
from models import TelegramChat, TwitterUser
File "/home/syko/telegram/telegram-twitter-forwarder-bot/models.py", line 90, in
t.create_table(fail_silently=True)
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.5/site-packages/peewee.py", line 5028, in create_table
if fail_silently and cls.table_exists():
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.5/site-packages/peewee.py", line 5024, in table_exists
return cls._meta.db_table in cls._meta.database.get_tables(**kwargs)
AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'get_tables'

Check for errors on /verify

in telegram message history:

while in logs:

2018-01-10 04:11:59,686 - TwitterForwarderBot - DEBUG - No new updates found.
2018-01-10 04:12:02,492 - TwitterForwarderBot - DEBUG - Getting updates: [434142446]
None
None
2018-01-10 04:12:03,170 - telegram.ext.dispatcher - ERROR - An uncaught error was raised while processing the update
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/home/webadmin/www/console/telegram/chat-crypto/telegram-twitter-forwarder-bot/venv/lib/python3.5/site-packages/telegram/ext/dispatcher.py", line 203, in process_update
    handler.handle_update(update, self)
  File "/home/webadmin/www/console/telegram/chat-crypto/telegram-twitter-forwarder-bot/venv/lib/python3.5/site-packages/telegram/ext/commandhandler.py", line 86, in handle_update
    return self.callback(dispatcher.bot, update, **optional_args)
  File "/home/webadmin/www/console/telegram/chat-crypto/telegram-twitter-forwarder-bot/util.py", line 14, in wrapper
    return f(bot, update, *args, **kwargs)
  File "/home/webadmin/www/console/telegram/chat-crypto/telegram-twitter-forwarder-bot/commands.py", line 268, in cmd_verify
    cmd_set_timezone(bot, update, [tz_name])
  File "/home/webadmin/www/console/telegram/chat-crypto/telegram-twitter-forwarder-bot/util.py", line 14, in wrapper
    return f(bot, update, *args, **kwargs)
  File "/home/webadmin/www/console/telegram/chat-crypto/telegram-twitter-forwarder-bot/commands.py", line 298, in cmd_set_timezone
    tz = timezone(tz_name)
  File "/home/webadmin/www/console/telegram/chat-crypto/telegram-twitter-forwarder-bot/venv/lib/python3.5/site-packages/pytz/__init__.py", line 173, in timezone
    if zone.upper() == 'UTC':
AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'upper'
2018-01-10 04:12:12,503 - TwitterForwarderBot - DEBUG - No new updates found.

AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'safe_create_index'

I'm getting this error on Debian in a virtualenvironment.

$ python main.py Traceback (most recent call last): File "main.py", line 9, in <module> from bot import TwitterForwarderBot File "/home/adem/twitterbot/bot.py", line 10, in <module> from models import TelegramChat, TwitterUser File "/home/adem/twitterbot/models.py", line 90, in <module> t.create_table(fail_silently=True) File "/home/adem/twitterbot/venv2/lib/python3.5/site-packages/peewee.py", line 5665, in create_table if safe and not cls._meta.database.safe_create_index \ AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'safe_create_index'

I don't know, what to do.

Adapting to paid tier?

https://twitter.com/TwitterDev/status/1621026986784337922

"Starting February 9, we will no longer support free access to the Twitter API, both v2 and v1.1. A paid basic tier will be available instead"

Not sure what will happen next. If anyone wants to keep this running with the paid tier, let me know :)

How to adjust the polling interval? (Solved)

Kind Francisco helped me on this

Francisco, [Oct 26, 2017, 12:29:52 PM]:

be careful about twitter's rate limit though

https://github.com/franciscod/telegram-twitter-forwarder-bot/blob/master/job.py#L23

try lowering that MIN_INTERVAL

maybe you'll need to fiddle with the interval property on lines 27-35

log file when crontab edited

When I put the command in crontab, where is the log file saved?

Sending media

It will be better if there is any media in tweet bot should send it with text message in that tweet as a caption of the media. Now images in tweets are sending as preview only

sometimes /auth doesn't work

/sub durov

Sorry, I didn't find username durov

Installed this script on my own server, all tokens were added to secrets

How can I hardcode groups and subscriptions?

I want that anybody that add my bot can manage it...

Where should I hardcode where the bot is connected, and what subscription has?

What am I doing wrong when filling secrets.py?

Well, I ONLY FILLED THE INFO IN SECRETS.PY how come it is missing if its there. What am i doing wrong?

How to use it in Telegram Channel/Group

I am a rookie, an undergraduate student, and want to follow researchers, academicians, labs, universities, latest news from research etc in telegram because social media distracts me, even I have ADHD. Bot works on a Droplet, but not in Telegram, I couldn't. How can I add bot to my telegram group or channel?

it is done

Question: Realtime streaming for multiple users?

Wonder if it's possible to update the bot to stream the tweets with no delay?

Rename bot?

Hello,

Fantastic bot! We'd love to rename it to "Our Channel Name - Tweets", can we somehow rename the bot?

RTs images and website links are not showing

Hi there,

Is it normal that RT's images and links are not being shown? Brings often the messages fully out of context. Is there a way to add / improve that?

Thanks for your help!

add check for single instance running

http://blog.tplus1.com/blog/2012/08/08/python-allow-only-one-running-instance-of-a-script/

we need this for cron

Retweets doesn't contain full text

If a Twitter user retweets, the tweet is shorted.

Check this here: https://pastebin.com/37mXQNyx

My solution is this for now:
if 'RT @' in tweet.full_text:
tw_data['text'] = "RT @" + twName + ": "
tw_data['text'] += tweet.retweeted_status.full_text

Post full tweet to Telegram

Now that Twitter has increased the amount of characters in a tweet will it be possible to post the full tweet text to telegram without the url linking to the extended text.

Sourcing secrets.env doesn't work smoothly on Windows

Keep getting the following error

C:\Users\user\Downloads\telegram-twitter-forwarder-bot-master\telegram-twitter-forwarder-bot-master>main.py
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "C:\Users\user\Downloads\telegram-twitter-forwarder-bot-master\telegram-twitter-forwarder-bot-master\main.py", line 32, in
auth = tweepy.OAuthHandler(env('TWITTER_CONSUMER_KEY'), env('TWITTER_CONSUMER_SECRET'))
File "C:\Users\user\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python35\lib\site-packages\envparse.py", line 107, in call
return env(var, cast=cast, default=default)
File "C:\Users\user\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python35\lib\site-packages\envparse.py", line 39, in env
value = os.environ[var]
File "C:\Users\user\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python35\lib\os.py", line 681, in getitem
raise KeyError(key) from None
KeyError: 'TWITTER_CONSUMER_KEY'

thank you

Upload to server

I want to run the bot in server so that i can use the bot without using my computer. But i find some problem that when bot is uploaded to heroku.com. It will send all the tweet start from the day that i upload the bot. i guess the problem is from the database setting about the time? Is there any method to fix it?

How do I resend bot messages to a channel?

My bot is working and it's sending me each tweet from my /sub

How can I make it send it to a channel?

Posting in channel

I have just set up the bot and it posts tweets in a group and to me in chat but I cannot seem to add it to a channel.

Is this supported? If so, how?

Couldn't send tweet 983320805282021377 to chat 383378879: "Bad Request: can't parse entities:

Delete

Bot failed to send chat

From log TwitterForwarderBot - INFO - Couldn't send tweet 767299741981954050 to chat 130145717: 'Bad Request: Url host is empty'

Any idea why this is happening? Used to work fine :/

Send notification to update subscriptions list in bot when user subscribes to someone new on Twitter

use case:

/export_friends
/sub to all current Twitter friends list
subscribe to someone new on Twitter
notification from bot: "do you want to update subscription list?"

KeyError: 'message', on data['message'] = Message.de_json(data['message'])

This was a bug happenng since Telegram added the 'edit message' feature. python-telegram-bot fixed this a while ago, but this bot was using an old version of that one. I've bumped it on this commit: b9e1bb2

This is what happened on #8 and #10. Won't happen again!

I am not able to subscribe to any user's tweet.

Everytimr I am trying to subscribe to any Twitter user for tweet, the bot is not able to fine the user.
I get the error as "Sorry, I didn't find username xxxxxx"

Problem with videos and links

Problem with videos and links

Most of the videos can not be played only appears an image and some links are not previewed

Subscription being removed

While the account is active, not protected, and public, the following error occur:
Your subscription to @xxxxxx was removed because that profile is protected and can't be fetched.

I want the bot to show the tweet only

Hi,

I want the tweet in telegram to display the tweet without the first line (user and timezone) and the last line (link to tweet).

I don't know python, was looking at the files and I think it's here

https://github.com/franciscod/telegram-twitter-forwarder-bot/blob/master/bot.py

At line 48, am I right? What would I need to delete to make it work, and if I got the file how would I go about changing it, adding a new bot on telegram or how? Thanks

Cannot show the first tweet after subscription if the username of twitter account has _

I faced this problem several times and i found that the problem only happens when the username is including _ like adidas_ES
the problem only happens on the first post after subscription.
Can the problem be fixed by editing markdown_twitter_usernames in util.py?
I am just guessing cuz i am green to python.

[Proposal] Add #hashtags in sub command

What about adding hashtags in the sub command, so people can subscribe for updates coming from any author on a specific topic?
Command would change in Use /sub @username1 @username2 #hashtag1 #hashtag2...
Based on the first character the command will create two distinct lists containing usernames and hashtags to follow.

Migrate to PTB 20.0

I have been trying to migrate the bot to Python Telegram Bot v20.0... but I have been having problems with not being able to pass the classes correctly... I would appreciate some help...

One of the problems is that in the functional version here uses PTB v5.0... the bot is initialized with

updater = Updater(bot=TwitterForwarderBot(token, twapi))
dispatcher = updater.dispatcher
# set commands
dispatcher.add_handler(CommandHandler('start', cmd_start))

and now (v20) the ApplicationBuilder() is used, and I don't know how to start the class that forwards with the new bot instance form

application = ApplicationBuilder().token(token).build()
application.add_handler(CommandHandler("start", start))

Can the bot be configured to not forward reply tweets?

Is possible don't send replies tweets to telegram?

Awesome logo

Hey there,

just wanted to mention that i really like how the logo resembles a horny bird that is about to fuck a flashlight.

Congrats on this epic logo

Sending tweets via telegram message

Would it be possible to answer to tweets via replied messages? That would be a great future.

How to add the bot to a telegram channel

I successfully added the bot to a group because there was an option for it.
But I don't see any option for a channel?
How can I add the bot to a channel?

• The inline mode simply doesn't work, it will get stuck in loading when you mention the bot username in the input field

I am starting with programing and bots and having some difficulties. When I add the bot to a chat group, it responds to commands(/help, /sub, etc..) but when I add it to a channel, it doesn't work, even if I add it as an admin. How can I configure it to subscribe and receive some messages from twitter?

Bot talk each time somebody talk

If somebody say anything on the group, bot answers with help message

Bot stopped working

Hi, I have been using this bot for awhile and works perfectly, but suddenly today the bot refused to work, it is still able to fetch new tweets but it wont keep running, it just stopped after sent tweets to me.

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "main.py", line 38, in <module>
    bot.kb_interruptable_loop()
  File "/home/yoga/opt/python/kenaparusak/basebot.py", line 161, in kb_interruptable_loop
    self.loop()
  File "/home/yoga/opt/python/kenaparusak/basebot.py", line 151, in loop
    self.poll()
  File "/home/yoga/opt/python/kenaparusak/basebot.py", line 74, in poll
    upds = self.tg.getUpdates(offset=self.update_offset, timeout=self.POLL_TIMEOUT)
  File "/home/yoga/opt/python/venv/lib/python3.4/site-packages/telegram/bot.py", line 126, in decorator
    result = func(self, *args, **kwargs)
  File "/home/yoga/opt/python/venv/lib/python3.4/site-packages/telegram/bot.py", line 697, in getUpdates
    return [Update.de_json(x) for x in result]
  File "/home/yoga/opt/python/venv/lib/python3.4/site-packages/telegram/bot.py", line 697, in <listcomp>
    return [Update.de_json(x) for x in result]
  File "/home/yoga/opt/python/venv/lib/python3.4/site-packages/telegram/update.py", line 58, in de_json
    data['message'] = Message.de_json(data['message'])
KeyError: 'message'

Bot not read messages in channel

Hello

I've worked with the bot and worked like a charm on groups, but i can't make work on my public channel.

I've added my telegram bot to the target channel (as admin), but at the time to send my command, the bot did't reply and the action doesn't show on the terminal ( as "Getting updates")

There is any step that i've have ommited?

Thanks in advance

ERROR - [{'code': 32, 'message': 'Could not authenticate you.'}]

Bot keeps saying Sorry, I didn't find username {someone} when receiving /sub {someone}. The error mentioned in the title is shown in the stdout. Is this related to the recent change of twitter developer API?

Losing all subscription within 24 hours when deployed in heroku

I deployed bot in heroku. Problem is I losing all the subscription within 24 hours and I have to subscribe each of them again and again each day. Feeds stoping before 24 hours and when I check the /list it showing nothing subscribed

removed

removed

@TwitterForwarderBot is not responding to any commands

Decided to check out the bot, but it's been completely unresponsive. The double checkmarks appear showing that the bot is getting my messages, but there is not any response.

Bot is sending help notification every few days

The bot is sending every few days a notification telling you how to use the bot ("Hey! Use commands to talk with me, please! See /help") even if you already have set it up.

error when running main.py

hi, i get this error when i try to run the main.py
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "main.py", line 3, in
import tweepy
File "/home/ubuntu/Desktop/telegram-twitter-forwarder-bot-master/venv/lib/python3.8/site-packages/tweepy/init.py", line 17, in
from tweepy.streaming import Stream, StreamListener
File "/home/ubuntu/Desktop/telegram-twitter-forwarder-bot-master/venv/lib/python3.8/site-packages/tweepy/streaming.py", line 340
def _start(self, async):
^
SyntaxError: invalid syntax
any suggestion on how to fix it?

Script keeps crashing

Either TWITTER_ACCESS_TOKEN or TWITTER_ACCESS_TOKEN_SECRET environment variables are missing. Tweepy will be initialized in 'app-only' mode
2016-08-16 15:02:22,680 - TwitterForwarderBot - INFO - Initializing
2016-08-16 15:02:22,680 - JobQueue - DEBUG - Putting a FetchAndSendTweetsJob with t=0
2016-08-16 15:02:22,681 - JobQueue - DEBUG - Ticking jobs with t=1471377742.6814742
2016-08-16 15:02:22,681 - JobQueue - DEBUG - Peeked a FetchAndSendTweetsJob with t=0
2016-08-16 15:02:22,681 - JobQueue - DEBUG - About time! running
2016-08-16 15:02:22,681 - FetchAndSendTweetsJob - DEBUG - Fetching tweets...
2016-08-16 15:02:22,682 - JobQueue - DEBUG - Putting a FetchAndSendTweetsJob with t=1471377862.6814742
2016-08-16 15:02:22,682 - JobQueue - DEBUG - Peeked a FetchAndSendTweetsJob with t=1471377862.6814742
2016-08-16 15:02:22,682 - JobQueue - DEBUG - Next task isn't due yet. Finished!
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "main.py", line 38, in
bot.kb_interruptable_loop()
File "/home/leonfox/Telegram-Twitter/telegram-twitter-forwarder-bot/basebot.py", line 161, in kb_interruptable_loop
self.loop()
File "/home/leonfox/Telegram-Twitter/telegram-twitter-forwarder-bot/basebot.py", line 151, in loop
self.poll()
File "/home/leonfox/Telegram-Twitter/telegram-twitter-forwarder-bot/basebot.py", line 74, in poll
upds = self.tg.getUpdates(offset=self.update_offset, timeout=self.POLL_TIMEOUT)
File "/home/leonfox/Telegram-Twitter/telegram-twitter-forwarder-bot/venv/lib/python3.4/site-packages/telegram/bot.py", line 126, in decorator
result = func(self, _args, *_kwargs)
File "/home/leonfox/Telegram-Twitter/telegram-twitter-forwarder-bot/venv/lib/python3.4/site-packages/telegram/bot.py", line 697, in getUpdates
return [Update.de_json(x) for x in result]
File "/home/leonfox/Telegram-Twitter/telegram-twitter-forwarder-bot/venv/lib/python3.4/site-packages/telegram/bot.py", line 697, in
return [Update.de_json(x) for x in result]
File "/home/leonfox/Telegram-Twitter/telegram-twitter-forwarder-bot/venv/lib/python3.4/site-packages/telegram/update.py", line 58, in de_json
data['message'] = Message.de_json(data['message'])
KeyError: 'message'