telegram-channel-scraper in NodeJS

Telegram Channel Scraper using Telegram Mobile Protocol (MTProto) library forked from this repo (Telegram MTProto ES6)

About Telegram Channel Scraper

This nodejs program was forked from Telegram MTProto

You can use it to grab messages from any channel (by default or user chats) and send it as JSON to any server. Some potential uses:

Monitor telegram news channels and send to google sheets for further processing. (Google Apps Script server on Google Sheets is very simple to set up)
Grab signals from Forex / Crypto telegram channels and send to server for automated trading

Installation

Clone this repo. Then

$ cd telegram-channel-scraper
$ npm i

Fill in .env.example then rename to .env

The telegram_api_id and telegram_api_hash values can be obtained here: https://my.telegram.org/

Usage

Make sure your in a telegram channel or create your own one to test.

Then run the program

$ node index.js

It is currently set up to poll the telegram server every 60 seconds. I had trouble setting up updates from telegram so instead I set it up as setTimeout.

Send another message to your channel and watch it send to your server again.

Contribute

Would love for someone to implement the updates feature so the app doesnt need to constantly poll the server for new messages. Feel free to send a pull request.

License