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 (about 10 years ago)
- Default Branch: master
- Last Pushed: 2019-06-02T18:34:22.000Z (about 6 years ago)
- Last Synced: 2025-04-30T02:38:26.521Z (2 months ago)
- Topics: backup, dump, telegram, telegram-cli
- Language: Lua
- Homepage:
- Size: 10.7 KB
- Stars: 116
- Watchers: 9
- Forks: 14
- Open Issues: 4
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Metadata Files:
- Readme: README.org
- License: LICENSE
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README
* 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=)