SocialMediaFeed

Uses Twitter API to receive a stream of tweets from a filtered criteria and posts them to Discord as an embedded message.

Future

Add YouTube API handling to get latest video posts

Setup

Clone the repository
Create a .env file in the root directory and add the following:

BEARER_TOKEN=
WEBHOOK_URL=
USERNAME=

Download the Twitter API v2 Postman environment. Populate the environment variables with your bearer_token, access_token, token_secret.
Setup the Add Rules for the FilteredStream https://api.twitter.com/2/tweets/search/stream/rules

{
    "add": [
        {
            "value": "from:USERNAME",
            "tag": ""
        }
    ]
}

REPLACE USERNAME WITH YOUR TWITTER USERNAME

BEARER TOKEN

You will have to create a Twitter Developer Account and create an application on your account. Once you have an application copy the BEARER_TOKEN and paste it in the .env file.

WEBHOOK URL

On your Discord server. Click the settings icon next to a text channel you want to add the webhook to, click integrations, webhooks, new webhooks. Then copy the webhook url and paste it in the .env file

USERNAME

Add your twitter username to the .env file (Case sensitive).

Run the Bot

Luckily Discord automatically formats Tweets as embedded messages in a nice and fancy layout so all we need to do is get the url of the tweet we want to post.

https://twitter.com/<username>/status/<tweetId>

username: is provided in .env

tweetId: is returned through the filteredstream

Compile the typescript by running tsc Then start it up with npm run start

Test it out on your twitter!