This telegram bot will keep you informed about new tweets from your twitter account list. Just create a public list in your twitter account, add some members which you are interesting in, and the bot will resend their tweets to your telegram chat/group.

• Had been used python-telegram-bot API Library, you can use start_polling or webhook updates methods to recieve the messages (see twitterlistsbot.py code and pyTelegramBotAPI Library manual)

• Had been used Python API for Twitter Library

You need to install:

• python (tested on 3.5+ version)

• python-telegram-bot:

$ sudo pip install python-telegram-bot --upgrade

• Python Twitter Tools

$ sudo pip install twitter

But in any case you must read authentic modules documentation to use it in your own operating system and environment.

Bot Settings are in the file twitterlist/config.py:

• put your TG_BOT_TOKEN
• id of chat or group where the bot will send messages TG_YOUR_TELEGRAM_PRIVATE_CHAT_ID (the bot should be an administrator there)
• your Twitter API application settings (you can create one here - https://apps.twitter.com/)
• your twitter account name TW_LIST_OWNER_SCREEN_NAME
• your public list name (slug) TW_LIST_SLUG
• a file name (with read/write permissions) to save list last read tweet ID - TW_LAST_TWIT_ID_FILENAME

The bot don't need your twitter account password and can't publish tweets from you or steal your personal information or something else, it uses only public information from your twitter account, that's why your twitter list could be public.

You can read some information about twitter list API if you are interesting in, here - https://developer.twitter.com/en/docs/accounts-and-users/create-manage-lists/api-reference

$ python twitterlistsbot.py

• you must use your python correct command depend of your python version and install path

twitter-lists-bot is released under an MIT License.