How to get a user's new Tweets with a Telegram Python bot while run_polling? - twitter

Question

I'm currently developing a Telegram bot using telegram-python-bot and tweepy.
I want to create a feature that allows users of the bot to add their Twitter ID list via Telegram and have their new Tweets sent to them in real-time.
I want that the bot should be application.run_polling() to receive commands from the user, and at the same time, forwarding new tweets from Twitter users in users individual list.
When I read the tweepy documentation, I realized that I can get real-time tweets with fewer api requests if I fetch them through MyStream(auth=auth, listener=None).
But I don't know how to get both functions to work on the same file at the same time.
version
nest_asyncio-1.5.6 python_telegram_bot-20.0 tweepy-4.12.1
def main() -> None:
application = Application.builder().token("...").build()
add_list = ConversationHandler(
entry_points=[CallbackQueryHandler(input_id, pattern='input_id')],
states={ADD :[MessageHandler(filters.TEXT & ~filters.COMMAND, add)],},
fallbacks=[CallbackQueryHandler(button,pattern='back')])
application.add_handler(CommandHandler("on", on))
application.add_handler(add_list)
application.add_handler(CommandHandler("start", start))
application.add_handler(CommandHandler("list", list_setting))
application.add_handler(CommandHandler("admin", admin))
application.add_handler(CommandHandler("help", help_command))
application.add_handler(CallbackQueryHandler(button))
application.run_polling()
if __name__ == "__main__":
main()
This is my main statement and I made it work until the SIGINT(ctrl+c) came in via application.run_polling().
I want to combine the above code to run and do the following at the same time.
import tweepy
consumer_key = "..." # Twitter API Key
consumer_secret = "..." # Twitter API Secret Key
access_token = "..." # Twitter Access Key
access_token_secret = "..." # Twitter Access Secret Key
usernames = ['...']
auth = tweepy.OAuth1UserHandler(
consumer_key, consumer_secret, access_token, access_token_secret
)
# Convert screen names to user IDs
user_ids = []
for username in usernames:
user = tweepy.API(auth).get_user(screen_name=username)
user_ids.append(str(user.id))
# Create a custom stream class
class MyStream(tweepy.Stream):
def __init__(self, auth, listener=None):
super().__init__(consumer_key, consumer_secret, access_token, access_token_secret)
def on_status(self, status):
tweet_url = f"https://twitter.com/{status.user.screen_name}/status/{status.id_str}"
print(f"{status.user.screen_name} tweeted: {status.text}\n{tweet_url}")
# send message to telegram
# Create a stream object with the above class and authentication
myStream = MyStream(auth=auth, listener=None)
# Start streaming for the selected users
myStream.filter(follow=user_ids)
I also tried to use thread's interval function or python-telegram-bot's job_queue.run_repeating function,
but these seem problematic for forwarding messages in real time.
I'm desperately looking for someone to help me with this😢.