Telegram Group to Twitter bot

This app will will forward messages from a user TELEGRAM_USER_ID posting in a channel TELEGRAM_CHANNEL_ID

config.py will read the os environment variables from a .env file

env example

this examples can also be found in the .env.example file

TELEGRAM_USER_ID = 123456789
TELEGRAM_CHANNEL_ID = 123456789
TELEGRAM_API_ID = 2222222
TELEGRAM_API_HASH = "acbc162d62........................"
TELEGRAM_BOT_TOKEN = "1571316368:....................."

TWITTER_CONSUMER_KEY = 'v0P3SK...............'
TWITTER_CONSUMER_SECRET = 'pBHMZzo..............................................'
TWITTER_ACCESS_TOKEN = '53883286-............................................'
TWITTER_ACCESS_TOKEN_SECRET = 'z5JJ.........................................'

To find out the information about TELEGRAM_USER_ID and TELEGRAM_CHANNEL_ID the bot command /info can be used in the channel were the telegram bot was invited

deploy on heroku

Procfile file for herokku is already created and the app is ready to deploy

environment variables need to be created in heroku

heroku config:set TELEGRAM_USER_ID=123456789

start app

heroku ps:scale worker=1

Other requirements

Create a Telegram bot

https://core.telegram.org/bots#3-how-do-i-create-a-bot

invite it to your cahnnel and give it admin permissions

Create an App for Telegram

(Most common reason for form submission ERROR while creating a app are some browser addons or a VPN connection/config)

https://my.telegram.org/apps

TELEGRAM_API_HASH = App api_id: TELEGRAM_API_ID = App api_hash

Twitter

create a twitter developer app

Under User authentication settings generate a Access Token and Secret

with read/write permissions

TWITTER_CONSUMER_KEY = API KEY

TWITTER_CONSUMER_SECRET = API SECRET KEY