TelegramIndex-Fork/README.md

# Telegram Index

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

## Overview

* This app indexes all the available messages.
* If the message is a media message, you can download the file.
* You can search for specific terms too.

## Demo

Hosted demo site: https://tg-index-demo.herokuapp.com/

## Deploy Guide

* **Clone to local machine.**

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

* **Create and activate virtual environment.**

```bash
$ pip3 install virtualenv
$ virtualenv venv
$ source venv/bin/activate
```

* **Install dependencies.**

```bash
$ pip3 install -U -r requirements.txt
```

* **Environment Variables.**

| Variable Name | Value
|------------- | -------------
| `API_ID` (required) | Telegram api_id obtained from https://my.telegram.org/apps.
| `API_HASH` (required) | Telegram api_hash obtained from https://my.telegram.org/apps.
| `INDEX_SETTINGS` (required) | See the below description.
| `SESSION_STRING` (required) | String obtained by running `$ python3 app/generate_session_string.py`. (Login with the telegram account which is a participant of the given channel (or chat).
| `PORT` (optional) | Port on which app should listen to, defaults to 8080.
| `HOST` (optional) | Host name on which app should listen to, defaults to 0.0.0.0.
| `DEBUG` (optional) | Give some value to set logging level to debug, info by default.

* **Setting value for `INDEX_SETTINGS`**

This is the general format, change the values for corresponding fields as your requirements.

```
{
    "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.**

```bash
$ python3 -m app
```

* Other quick methods.

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## Video Tutorial

Here's a YouTube tutorial video for deploying to [Heroku](https://heroku.com/ "Heroku"). [Video Link](https://youtu.be/V8MKM6yzydw "Tutorial video for deploying to Heroku")

## Contributions

Contributions are welcome.

## Contact

You can contact me [@odysseusmax](https://tx.me/odysseusmax).

## License
Code released under [The GNU General Public License](LICENSE).