Post New Tweets By A User to A Telegram Channel

What it does

• Fetches tweets every X minutes from the specified twitter user.
• Posts them to a Telegram Channel.

Why

To make it easier for twitter accounts to have their own Telegram channel without writing a lot of code. Most of the config is in config.js.

Uses

• Node.js
• npm:twitter
• npm:telegraf (Planning to extend on it, but it could have been done with the native Telegram wrapper)

Required

• Telegram Bot Token (Use @BotFather Telegram Bot to create one)
• Twitter Consumer Token, Secret, Access Token & Secret.

Steps

• Get the required Credentials and populate config.js (Use ENV vars if you want to, but through the config file)
• Create a Telegram Channel
• Add the bot you created in the first step to the Telegram Channel as an Administrator. (Don't try to add as user and promote, doesn't work that way)
• Set up a cron job to run cron.js every X minutes (Will update this with heroku setup)

Why did you do it?

If someone tells you that to create a Telegram bot you have to use another bot with a name like @BotFather, you have to give it a try.