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Rename session file for convenience

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JustAnotherArchivist 1 year ago
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The only mandatory dependency of the script is Telethon. You probably want cryptg as well for performance reasons when downloading larger files. With tqdm installed, you get a progress bar for each download.

For authentication (always required), specify the `TELEGRAM_API_ID`, `TELEGRAM_API_HASH`, and `TELEGRAM_BOT_TOKEN` environment variables. The session is stored in a file `telegram-dl.session`; keeping this between executions is not critical but recommended.
For authentication (always required), specify the `TELEGRAM_API_ID`, `TELEGRAM_API_HASH`, and `TELEGRAM_BOT_TOKEN` environment variables. The session is stored in a file `.telegram-dl.session`; keeping this between executions is not critical but recommended.

A `Dockerfile` is provided for running with Docker. Simply provide the URL(s) as arguments on running the image. Data is written to the `/data` volume, which you may want to mount from the host machine instead.



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@@ -54,7 +54,7 @@ async def main():
ids = [x[1] for x in targets]

# Let's go...
client = telethon.TelegramClient('telegram-dl', API_ID, API_HASH)
client = telethon.TelegramClient('.telegram-dl', API_ID, API_HASH)
print('Connecting', file = sys.stderr)
await client.start(bot_token = BOT_TOKEN)
print('Fetching messages', file = sys.stderr)


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