Telegram save all media from chat/user/channel

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Quick tip. It is possible to download media with small python script.

Goto https://my.telegram.org and generate api id and api hash Install Telethon library with pip3 install telethon Run saveAllMedia.py (replace api_id, api_hash and username with your values).

If you need proxy install https://github.com/Anorov/PySocks pip install PySocks

This code downloads all media from the dialog with username user/chat/channel in current directory.

LICENSE: Based on: telegramdesktop/tdesktop#1382 (comment) and https://github.com/LonamiWebs/Telethon

saveAllMedia.py

#uncomment line below if you need proxy
#import socks
from telethon import TelegramClient, sync
#import logging

api_id=400000
api_hash='supersecreethash'

#logging.basicConfig(level=logging.DEBUG)

client = TelegramClient('test_session123123123',
    api_id, api_hash,
    # You may want to use proxy to connect to Telegram
    #proxy=(socks.SOCKS5, 'PROXYHOST', PORT, 'PROXYUSERNAME', 'PROXYPASSWORD')
)
client.start()
for message in client.iter_messages('CHATNAME/CHANNELNAME/USERNAME'):
    client.download_media(message)

Where do I find the messages after they have been downloaded? thanks in advance.

@semere01 sorry, I don't remember it was too long ago. For now Telegram has built-in function for export chats history in Telegram Desktop interface. I suggest you to use built-in functions, not external scripts.

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