telegram_media_downloader

Overview

Support two default running

• The robot is running, and the command download or forward is issued from the robot

• Download as a one-time download tool

UI

Web page

After running, open a browser and visit localhost:5000 If it is a remote machine, you need to configure web_host: 0.0.0.0

Robot

Need to configure bot_token, please refer to Documentation

Support

Category	Support
Language	Python 3.7 and above
Download media types	audio, document, photo, video, video_note, voice

Version release plan

• v2.2.0

Installation

For *nix os distributions with make availability

git clone https://github.com/tangyoha/telegram_media_downloader.git
cd telegram_media_downloader
make install

For Windows which doesn't have make inbuilt

git clone https://github.com/tangyoha/telegram_media_downloader.git
cd telegram_media_downloader
pip3 install -r requirements.txt

Docker

For more detailed installation tutorial, please check the wiki

Make sure you have docker and docker-compose installed

docker pull tangyoha/telegram_media_downloader:latest
mkdir -p ~/app && mkdir -p ~/app/log/ && cd ~/app
wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/tangyoha/telegram_media_downloader/master/docker-compose.yaml -O docker-compose.yaml
wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/tangyoha/telegram_media_downloader/master/config.yaml -O config.yaml
wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/tangyoha/telegram_media_downloader/master/data.yaml -O data.yaml
# vi config.yaml and docker-compose.yaml
vi config.yaml

# The first time you need to start the foreground
# enter your phone number and code, then exit(ctrl + c)
docker-compose run --rm telegram_media_downloader

# After performing the above operations, all subsequent startups will start in the background
docker-compose up -d

# Upgrade
docker pull tangyoha/telegram_media_downloader:latest
cd ~/app
docker-compose down
docker-compose up -d

Upgrade installation

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 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 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

api_hash: your_api_hash
api_id: your_api_id
chat:
- chat_id: telegram_chat_id
  last_read_message_id: 0
  download_filter: message_date >= 2022-12-01 00:00:00 and message_date <= 2023-01-17 00:00:00
- chat_id: telegram_chat_id_2
  last_read_message_id: 0
# note we remove ids_to_retry to data.yaml
ids_to_retry: []
media_types:
- audio
- document
- photo
- video
- voice
- animation #gif
file_formats:
  audio:
  - all
  document:
  - pdf
  - epub
  video:
  - mp4
save_path: D:\telegram_media_downloader
file_path_prefix:
- chat_title
- media_datetime
upload_drive:
  # required
  enable_upload_file: true
  # required
  remote_dir: drive:/telegram
  # required
  upload_adapter: rclone
  # option,when config upload_adapter rclone then this config are required
  rclone_path: D:\rclone\rclone.exe
  # option
  before_upload_file_zip: True
  # option
  after_upload_file_delete: True
hide_file_name: true
file_name_prefix:
- message_id
- file_name
file_name_prefix_split: ' - '
max_download_task: 5
web_host: 127.0.0.1
web_port: 5000
language: EN
web_login_secret: 123
allowed_user_ids:
- 'me'
date_format: '%Y_%m'
enable_download_txt: false

• api_hash - The api_hash you got from telegram apps
• api_id - The api_id you got from telegram apps
• bot_token - Your bot token
• chat - Chat list
  • chat_id - The id of the chat/channel you want to download media. Which you get from the above-mentioned steps.
  • download_filter - Download filter, see How to use Filter
  • 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.
• save_path - The root directory where you want to store downloaded files.
• file_path_prefix - Store file subfolders, the order of the list is not fixed, can be randomly combined.
  • chat_title - Channel or group title, it will be chat id if not exist title.
  • media_datetime - Media date.
  • media_type - Media type, also see media_types.
• upload_drive - You can upload file to cloud drive.
  • enable_upload_file - Enable upload file, default false.
  • remote_dir - Where you upload, like drive_id/drive_name.
  • upload_adapter - Upload file adapter, which can be rclone, aligo. If it is rclone, it supports all rclone servers that support uploading. If it is aligo, it supports uploading Ali cloud disk.
  • rclone_path - RClone exe path, see How to use rclone
  • before_upload_file_zip - Zip file before upload, default false.
  • after_upload_file_delete - Delete file after upload success, default false.
• file_name_prefix - Custom file name, use the same as file_path_prefix
  • message_id - Message id
  • file_name - File name (may be empty)
  • caption - The title of the message (may be empty)
• file_name_prefix_split - Custom file name prefix symbol, the default is -
• max_download_task - The maximum number of task download tasks, the default is 5.
• hide_file_name - Whether to hide the web interface file name, default false
• web_host - Web host
• web_port - Web port
• language - Application language, the default is English (EN), optional ZH(Chinese),RU,UA
• web_login_secret - Web page login password, if not configured, no login is required to access the web page
• log_level - see logging._nameToLevel.
• forward_limit - Limit the number of forwards per minute, the default is 33, please do not modify this parameter by default.
• allowed_user_ids - Who is allowed to use the robot? The default login account can be used. Please add single quotes to the name with @.
• date_format Support custom configuration of media_datetime format in file_path_prefix.see python-datetime
• enable_download_txt Enable download txt file, default false

Execution

python3 media_downloader.py

All downloaded media will be stored at the root of save_path. The specific location reference is as follows:

The complete directory of video download is: save_path/chat_title/media_datetime/media_type. The order of the list is not fixed and can be randomly combined. If the configuration is empty, all files are saved under save_path.

Proxy

socks4, socks5, http proxies are supported in this project currently. To use it, add the following to the bottom of your config.yaml file

proxy:
  scheme: socks5
  hostname: 127.0.0.1
  port: 1234
  username: your_username(delete the line if none)
  password: your_password(delete the line if none)

If your proxy doesn’t require authorization you can omit username and password. Then the proxy will automatically be enabled.

Contributing

Contributing Guidelines

Read through our contributing guidelines 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.

Code of Conduct

Help us keep Telegram Media Downloader open and inclusive. Please read and follow our Code of Conduct.

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