Which API to get latest tweets from a public account?

[kiwi]

I am trying to make a very simple twitter bot that sends me a notification to my telegram channel every time a particular twitter account tweets something. The twitter accounts that I want to get the notifications from are all public accounts.

The telegram integration took me about 20mins but the twitter integration has taken me all day with no results. I just spent a lot of time setting up a server to register webhooks for the account-activity API only to realize this is only if you Oauth with the subscribed account. I just want to get the text of the message but I don’t want to have to authenticate with the user. These are public messages after all so I don’t know why I would need to do anything complicated.

I can’t seem to figure out which is the correct API to do this? I was hoping some sort of streaming API so that I don’t have to continuously poll for updates.

[Connexinet]

You can start with the free streaming API, and upgrade to PowerTrack if needed
Have a look here:
https://developer.twitter.com/en/docs/tweets/filter-realtime/overview.html

[andypiper]

I’d use the statuses/user_timeline endpoint for this. Yes it does involve polling, but it’s straightforward. The alternative would be the statuses/filter streaming endpoint.

[system]

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