https://github.com/blueset/polls_channel_history

Polls Channel Messages Log
https://github.com/blueset/polls_channel_history

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Polls Channel Messages Log

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/blueset/polls_channel_history
• Owner: blueset
• License: mit
• Created: 2020-11-29T06:19:25.000Z (about 4 years ago)
• Default Branch: main
• Last Pushed: 2023-07-10T01:20:51.000Z (over 1 year ago)
• Last Synced: 2025-01-10T16:22:51.230Z (6 days ago)
• Topics: github-actions, telegram, telegram-channel
• Language: HTML
• Homepage: https://blueset.github.io/polls_channel_history/
• Size: 18.3 MB
• Stars: 7
• Watchers: 2
• Forks: 0
• Open Issues: 0
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: README.md
  • License: LICENSE

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# Polls Channel Messages Log

A simple and brutal public message log for Telegram channels, focused on text and poll messages.

- For text messages or media message with a caption, the text/caption is used.

- For poll/quiz messages, the question and all options are used.

- Message ID is always used to produce a link to the message.

- There is no indication about message type.

## Details

- Web: https://blueset.github.io/polls_channel_history

- Updated daily via GitHub Actions

- Code license: MIT

## How to use this for your own channel?

1. Clone or download this repository locally.

1. Install Python 3.

2. Install all Python dependency packages via `python3 -m pip install -r requirements.txt`.

1. Export your channel using Telegram Desktop, choose the time range of messages, and export to JSON format with no media file.

    - Open a channel in Telegram Desktop

    - Click the 3 dots at the corner

    - Click “Export channel history”

    - Uncheck all boxes

    - Click the text after “Format” and choose “Machine-readable JSON”

1. Generate the initial message list JSON use `python3 from_telegram_desktop_export_json.py < YOUR_EXPORTED_JSON.json > data.json`

1. Edit `template.html` with information about your own channel.

1. Run `python3 render_data.py` to build the web page. The final web page is `index.html`.

1. For further updates, edit `load_latest_from_tme.py`, replace the channel username after `CHANNEL_ID="` with your own one. **Note:** this only work for public channels. Run this script with `python3 load_latest_from_tme.py` to update the content. The script will warn you if auto update is failed due to more than 20 messages added since last update.