Tracks a public Twitter List and posts updates to a given Slack channel

slack_twitter_follow.py

### Tracks a public Twitter List and posts updates to a given Slack channel
### Example: https://i.imgur.com/RMQB27N.png

import datetime
import time
import twitter
from slackclient import SlackClient

slack_bot_id = '<FILL OUT>'
slack_channel = '<FILL OUT>'
slack_client = SlackClient(slack_bot_id)
twitter_consumer_key = '<FILL OUT>'
twitter_consumer_secret = '<FILL OUT>'
twitter_access_token = '<FILL OUT>'
twitter_access_secret = '<FILL OUT>'
sinceID = None
counter = 0
twitter_list = '<FILL OUT>'
list_owner = 'bbaskin'


def read_tweets(list_slug, sinceID):
    if sinceID:
        statuses = t.lists.statuses(owner_screen_name=list_owner, slug=list_slug, since_id=sinceID)
    else:
        statuses = t.lists.statuses(owner_screen_name=list_owner, slug=list_slug)
    return statuses


def parse_tweets(statuses):
    global sinceID
    global counter
    for tweet in statuses:
        text = tweet['text']
        user = tweet['user']['screen_name']
        url = 'https://twitter.com/{}/status/{}'.format(user, tweet['id'])
        post = '[{}] @{}: {}  (Source: {} )'.format(counter, user, text, url)
        slack_post_channel(post, slack_channel)
        print('[{}] {}'.format(counter, url))
        counter += 1
        
    if statuses:
        sinceID = statuses[0]['id']
        return True
        
    return False


def slack_post_channel(msg, room):
    slack_client.api_call('chat.postMessage', channel=room, text=msg)
    

if __name__ == '__main__':
    global t
    t = twitter.Twitter(auth=twitter.OAuth(twitter_access_token, twitter_access_secret, twitter_consumer_key, twitter_consumer_secret))

    if slack_client.rtm_connect(with_team_state=False):
        slack_client.api_call('auth.test')['user_id']
        while True:
            statuses = read_tweets(twitter_list, sinceID)
            
            parse_tweets(statuses)

            time.sleep(60)
    else:
        print('[*] Slack connection failed')

    quit()