Telegram Media Downloader
### Overview:
Download all media files from a conversation or a channel that you are a part of from telegram.
A meta of last read/downloaded message is stored in the config file so that in such a way it won't download the same media file again.
### Support:
| Category | Support |
|--|--|
|Language | `Python 3.6 ` and above|
|Download media types| audio, document, photo, video, video_note, voice|
### ToDo:
- Add support for multiple channels/chats.
### Installation
For *nix os distributions with `make` availability
```sh
$ git clone https://github.com/Dineshkarthik/telegram_media_downloader.git
$ cd telegram_media_downloader
$ make install
```
For Windows which doesn't have `make` inbuilt
```sh
$ git clone https://github.com/Dineshkarthik/telegram_media_downloader.git
$ cd telegram_media_downloader
$ pip3 install -r requirements.txt
```
## Configuration
All the configurations are passed to the Telegram Media Downloader via `config.yaml` file.
**Getting your API Keys:**
The very first step requires you to obtain a valid Telegram API key (API id/hash pair):
1. Visit [https://my.telegram.org/apps](https://my.telegram.org/apps) and log in with your Telegram Account.
2. Fill out the form to register a new Telegram application.
3. Done! The API key consists of two parts: **api_id** and **api_hash**.
**Getting chat id:**
**1. Using web telegram:**
1. Open https://web.telegram.org/?legacy=1#/im
2. Now go to the chat/channel and you will see the URL as something like
- `https://web.telegram.org/?legacy=1#/im?p=u853521067_2449618633394` here `853521067` is the chat id.
- `https://web.telegram.org/?legacy=1#/im?p=@somename` here `somename` is the chat id.
- `https://web.telegram.org/?legacy=1#/im?p=s1301254321_6925449697188775560` here take `1301254321` and add `-100` to the start of the id => `-1001301254321`.
- `https://web.telegram.org/?legacy=1#/im?p=c1301254321_6925449697188775560` here take `1301254321` and add `-100` to the start of the id => `-1001301254321`.
**2. Using bot:**
1. Use [@username_to_id_bot](https://t.me/username_to_id_bot) to get the chat_id of
- almost any telegram user: send username to the bot or just forward their message to the bot
- any chat: send chat username or copy and send its joinchat link to the bot
- public or private channel: same as chats, just copy and send to the bot
- id of any telegram bot
### config.yaml
```yaml
api_hash: your_api_hash
api_id: your_api_id
chat_id: telegram_chat_id
last_read_message_id: 0
ids_to_retry: []
media_types:
- audio
- document
- photo
- video
- voice
file_formats:
audio:
- all
document:
- pdf
- epub
video:
- mp4
```
- api_hash - The api_hash you got from telegram apps
- api_id - The api_id you got from telegram apps
- chat_id - The id of the chat/channel you want to download media. Which you get from the above-mentioned steps.
- last_read_message_id - If it is the first time you are going to read the channel let it be `0` or if you have already used this script to download media it will have some numbers which are auto-updated after the scripts successful execution. Don't change it.
- ids_to_retry - `Leave it as it is.` This is used by the downloader script to keep track of all skipped downloads so that it can be downloaded during the next execution of the script.
- media_types - Type of media to download, you can update which type of media you want to download it can be one or any of the available types.
- file_formats - File types to download for supported media types which are `audio`, `document` and `video`. Default format is `all`, downloads all files.
## Execution
```sh
$ python3 media_downloader.py
```
All the downloaded media will be stored inside respective direcotry named in the same path as the python script.
| Media type | Download directory |
|--|--|
| audio | path/to/project/audio |
| document | path/to/project/document |
| photo | path/to/project/photo |
| video | path/to/project/video |
| voice | path/to/project/voice |
| voice_note | path/to/project/voice_note |
## Proxy
`Socks5` proxy is supported in this project currently. To use it, simply create a `config.ini` file in the path of this project, and edit it with your proxy server info as follow:
```ini
[proxy]
enabled = True
hostname = 127.0.0.1
port = 1080
username =
password =
```
Then the proxy will automatically be enabled.
## Contributing
### Contributing Guidelines
Read through our [contributing guidelines](https://github.com/Dineshkarthik/telegram_media_downloader/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md) to learn about our submission process, coding rules and more.
### Want to Help?
Want to file a bug, contribute some code, or improve documentation? Excellent! Read up on our guidelines for [contributing](https://github.com/Dineshkarthik/telegram_media_downloader/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md).
### Code of Conduct
Help us keep Telegram Media Downloader open and inclusive. Please read and follow our [Code of Conduct](https://github.com/Dineshkarthik/telegram_media_downloader/blob/master/CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md).