Telegram Index

Python Web App which indexes a telegram channel(or a chat) and serves its files for download.

Highlights

Index one or more telegram channels/chats.
View messages and media files on the browser.
Search through the channel/chat.
Download media files through browser/download managers.

Demo

Hosted demo site: https://tg-index-demo.herokuapp.com

Deploy Guide

Clone to local machine.

$ git clone https://github.com/odysseusmax/tg-index.git
$ cd tg-index

Create and activate virtual environment.

$ pip3 install virtualenv
$ virtualenv venv
$ source venv/bin/activate

Install dependencies.

$ pip3 install -U -r requirements.txt

Environment Variables.

Variable Name	Value
`API_ID` (required)	Telegram api_id obtained from https://my.telegram.org/apps.
`API_HASH` (required)	Telegram api_hash obtained from https://my.telegram.org/apps.
`INDEX_SETTINGS` (required)	See the below description.
`SESSION_STRING` (required)	String obtained by running `$ python3 app/generate_session_string.py`. (Login with the telegram account which is a participant of the given channel (or chat).
`PORT` (optional)	Port on which app should listen to, defaults to 8080.
`HOST` (optional)	Host name on which app should listen to, defaults to 0.0.0.0.
`DEBUG` (optional)	Give some value to set logging level to debug, info by default.

Setting value for INDEX_SETTINGS

This is the general format, change the values of corresponding fields as your requirements. Remember to remove spaces.

{
    "index_all": true,
    "index_private":false,
    "index_group": false,
    "index_channel": true,
    "exclude_chats": [],
    "include_chats": []
}

index_all - Whether to consider all the chats associated with the telegram account. Value should either be true or false.

index_private - Whether to index private chats. Only considered if index_all is set to true. Value should either be true or false.

index_group - Whether to index group chats. Only considered if index_all is set to true. Value should either be true or false.

index_channel - Whether to index channels. Only considered if index_all is set to true. Value should either be true or false.

exclude_chats - An array/list of chat id's that should be ignored for indexing. Only considered if index_all is set to true.

include_chats - An array/list of chat id's to index. Only considered if index_all is set to false.