feh_bot

feh_bot is a bot that forwards tweets in real-time to Telegram group chats or individuals.

Currently, my instance of the bot is nonoperational due to bugs.

Getting Started

Prerequisites

Python 3.6 is required for this project, found here

Install the python packages python-telegram-bot and tweepy

pip install python-telegram-bot --upgrade
pip install tweepy --upgrade

Installing

Clone this repository

git clone https://github.com/RealRichardParker/feh_bot.git

Run the script generate_config.py

python3 generate_config.py

A file called config.cfg will be created, open it and replace all the 0 with the Twitter and Telegram API keys.

Twitter keys can be obtained by

1. Visiting https://apps.twitter.com/ and logging in
2. Clicking "Create App"
3. Filling out the form and agreeing to the Terms and Conditions
4. Click on “Keys and Access Tokens”. The Consumer Key and Secret are found here
5. Click on "Create my access token". The Access Token and Secret will be generated for you

Telegram API key can be obtained from the @Botfather

Usage

Starting the bot

1. Add @feh_bot

2. Run the /start command

3. Start following Twitter accounts

Commands

Command	Description	Usage
/start	Starts the bot in the current chat	/start
/follow	Follows the given Twitter account if it exists and forwards any tweets in realtime	/follow <username>
/list_followed	Lists any Twitter Accounts that this chat is following	/list_followed
/help	Displays a help message	/help

Releases

Changelog can be found here

Built With

python-telegram-bot

tweepy

License

This project is licensed under the MIT License - see the LICENSE.txt file for details