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.

$ 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.

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.

$ python3 -m app

• Other quick methods.

Video Tutorial

Here's a YouTube tutorial video for deploying to Heroku. Video Link

Contributions

Contributions are welcome.

Contact

You can contact me @odysseusmax.

License

Code released under The GNU General Public License.