📨 Telegram Message Collector

Collect all incoming messages in a dedicated Telegram channel

Warning Abusing the API capabilities may lead to your Telegram account being blocked

Configuration

The project uses a config.json file with the following data:

{
    "API_ID": "<YOUR_VALUE>",
    "API_HASH": "<YOUR_VALUE>",
    "CHAT_ID": "<YOUR_VALUE>"
}

To get the API_ID and API_HASH for your Telegram application, follow these steps:

1. Go to the Telegram API Portal.
2. Login with your phone number.
3. Click on the API development tools link.
4. Click on the Create New Application button.
5. Fill in the required fields and click on the Create button.
6. Your API_ID and API_HASH will be displayed on the next page.

To get the CHAT_ID of a channel in Telegram, you can use the @username_to_id_bot. Follow these steps:

1. Forward a message from the channel you want to get the CHAT_ID for to the @username_to_id_bot.
2. The bot will send you a message with the CHAT_ID of the channel.

Usage

To use this project, clone the repository and install the required dependencies:

1. Copy code

git clone https://github.com/<your_username>/TelegramMessageCollector.git
cd TelegramMessageCollector
pip3 install -r requirements.txt 

2. Then, edit the config.json file with your API_ID, API_HASH, and CHAT_ID.

Finally, run the script:

python3 ./src/run.py