Telegram Index

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

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.

Demo

Hosted demo site: https://christyroys007-tg-index.zeet.app

Deploy Guide

• Clone to local machine.

git clone https://github.com/odysseusmax/tg-index.git
cd tg-index

• Create and activate virtual environment.

pip3 install virtualenv
virtualenv venv
source venv/bin/activate

• Install dependencies.

pip3 install -U -r requirements.txt

• Environment Variables.

• Setting value for INDEX_SETTINGS

This is the general format, change the values of corresponding fields as your requirements. Remember to remove spaces.

{
    "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.

python3 -m app

Contributions

Contributions are welcome.

Contact

You can contact me @odysseusmax.

License

Code released under The GNU General Public License.