Track and save Telegram channel messages into database. This project's core is completely based on Amir Yousefi's Telegram Analysis.
- Create Telegram Account
- Get Telegram development credentials in Telegram API Development Tools
- Create Mongo Database
- Create config.ini file (template: config.temp.ini)
api_id&api_hashfrom Telegram API Development Toolsphone&usernameof Telegram Accountmongo_urifrom created Mongo Database
- Create a Mongo collection named
channels - Find channel ids to tracker. Channel id should be a number with length of 10.
- You can forward any message from channel to GetIDs Bot and get the number from
Origin Chat/id. -100 prefix should be omitted (-1001234567890 -> 1234567890). - You can get id from Telegram Web channel url (for some channels). If the url is like https://web.telegram.org/#/im?p=c1234567890_0000000000000000000 then the id is
1234567890(from c to underscore).
- You can forward any message from channel to GetIDs Bot and get the number from
- Add channel ids into
channelscollection (e.g.{ "id": 1234567890 }).
- Run
python .script - Authenticate telegram from python console (one time)
- A Mongo collection named
historieswill be created. - Script can be re-run anytime.
- Getting all messages from new channel may take long according to number of messages.
- Getting new messages from existing channel should take average of 1 second.
- Unit Test