https://github.com/psamim/telegram-cli-backup

A simple Lua script to backup Telegram messages into a CSV or sqlite database
https://github.com/psamim/telegram-cli-backup

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A simple Lua script to backup Telegram messages into a CSV or sqlite database

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/psamim/telegram-cli-backup
• Owner: psamim
• License: mit
• Created: 2015-06-26T06:45:22.000Z (over 9 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2019-06-02T18:34:22.000Z (over 5 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-05-10T22:00:52.209Z (8 months ago)
• Topics: backup, dump, telegram, telegram-cli
• Language: Lua
• Homepage:
• Size: 10.7 KB
• Stars: 113
• Watchers: 10
• Forks: 14
• Open Issues: 4
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: README.org
  • License: LICENSE

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* telegram-cli-backup

A simple and dirty lua script to backup Telegram messages into a CSV file or a sqlite database.

* How

Change first two lines of the script and set your contact name and message count. Then send the lua script to telegram-cli. If using CSV type, only lua is needed, if writing to a sqlite database, sqlite3 library should be installed (via luarocks for example).

#+BEGIN_SRC sh

$ telegram-cli -s backup.lua

#+END_SRC

* Requirements

- [[https://github.com/vysheng/tg][telegram-cli]]

- lua

And if writing to a sqlite database:

- Lua lsqlite3 (can be installed by =$ luarocks install lsqlite3=)