v0.12.0: Channel posts with comments
✨ Download channel posts together with their comments
Broadcast channels keep their comments in a separate linked discussion group. With the new opt-in --comments flag, the channel and its comments are now downloaded together — each post's comment thread is merged into the same messages.json and rendered nested under its post in the HTML/TXT/PDF exports (media in comments included).
Highlights
--comments— download a channel's posts with their comment threads (opt-in, channel-only; no-op on regular chats)--comments-limit N— cap comments fetched per post (default: no limit)- GUI — "Download channel post comments" checkbox + "Comments per post" dropdown (No limit / 10 / 50 / 100 / 500 / 1000)
- Comments respect the date window — combine with
--last-days,--min-date,--max-date(comments are only fetched for posts in range) - Works alongside
--html,--pdf, and--media
Usage
telegram-download-chat https://t.me/seeallochnaya --comments --html
Install / upgrade: pip install -U telegram-download-chat