telegram_backup

Small python 3 script to backup your telegram logs.

Not fully tested, use at your own risk !

Each chat is dump to yaml files in the logs folder. Logs are regrouped by date (year.month.yaml)

Medias are downloaded into files folders.

A symlink is created with the printable name of each conversation.

Checkpoint

You have to check output of logs for any error during download of messages

The script cannot make the difference between No messages and Error retriving messages without any doubts and sometime lost older messages.

If you have an error with one of your contact and the script just continue by processing messages instead of trying again, delete the _checkpoint.yaml file to ensure all history will be checked again.

Usage

• You will need telegram-cli and pytg and python 3. Check others repos for specific instructions.
• You will also need yaml. Install it using pip install pyyaml or your favorite package manager.
• Setup telegram-cli (connect it to your account :))
• Grab a copy of the script (e.g git clone this repo)
• Create a logs folder
• Run telegram-cli using telegram-cli -P 4458 -W --json
• Run the script: python dump.py

TODOs

• Check that everything is saved
• Remove dirty hack str(e) == "Result parser does not allow exceptions."
• Easy install (setup.py ?)
• Probably dosen't works with Windows