Twitter-Tracker

Tracks a private user's basic activity without using the Twitter API to receive notifications through Telegram.

Dependencies

• requests
• twitter-scraper

Notes about twitter-scraper; the pip package seems outdated as of 17/06/2020, so please do a manual installation from the github repo for the time being.

How to set it up

Variables

Edit the CHAT_ID, USERNAME, USERID, TOKEN variables accordingly.

If you want to use the USERID instead of using the USERNAME, please only provide the USERID.

Creating a telegram bot

You can create a bot through @BotFather

Finding the chat ID

You can learn about your chat ID by messaging /my_id to the @get_id_bot on telegram.

Things to do

• Log the activities with timestamps in a csv file so it can be used for analysis purposes later.