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https://github.com/odysseusmax/tg-index

Python web app to index telegram chats and serve its files for download over HTTP.
https://github.com/odysseusmax/tg-index

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Python web app to index telegram chats and serve its files for download over HTTP.

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# Telegram Index

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

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## 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.

## Deploy Guide

- **Clone to local machine.**

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

$ cd tg-index
```

- **Create and activate virtual environment.**

```bash
$ python -m venv venv

$ source venv/bin/activate
```

- **Install dependencies.**

```bash
$ pip3 install -U -r requirements.txt
```

- **Environment Variables.**

| Variable Name | Value |
| ------------------------------------ | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| `API_ID` (required) | Telegram api_id obtained from . |
| `API_HASH` (required) | Telegram api_hash obtained from . |
| `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 `true` to set logging level to debug, info by default. |
| `BLOCK_DOWNLOADS` (optional) | Enable downloads or not. If any value is provided, downloads will be disabled. |
| `RESULTS_PER_PAGE` (optional) | Number of results to be returned per page defaults to 20. |
| `TGINDEX_USERNAME` (optional) | Username for authentication, defaults to `''`. |
| `PASSWORD` (optional) | Password for authentication, defaults to `''`. |
| `SHORT_URL_LEN` (optional) | Url length for aliases |
| `SESSION_COOKIE_LIFETIME` (optional) | Number of minutes, for which authenticated session is valid for, after which user has to login again. defaults to 60. |
| `SECRET_KEY` (optional) | 32 characters long string for signing the session cookies, required if authentication is enabled. |

- **Setting value for `INDEX_SETTINGS`**

This is the general format, change the values of corresponding fields as your requirements. You can copy paste this as is to index all the channels available in your account.

**Remember to remove spaces.**

```json
{
"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`.

- **Run app.**

```bash
python3 -m app
```

## Deploy Guide (Repl.it)

A detailed and beginner friendly guide on how to deploy this project on a free instance of can be found [here](./repl-config/replit-deploy-guide.md).

## Contributions

Contributions are welcome.

## Contact

You can contact me [@odysseusmax](https://tx.me/odysseusmax).

## License

Code released under [The GNU General Public License](LICENSE).