telegram-cli-backup

A simple and dirty lua script to backup Telegram messages into a CSV file or a sqlite database.

How

Change first two lines of the script and set your contact name and message count. Then send the lua script to telegram-cli. If using CSV type, only lua is needed, if writing to a sqlite database, sqlite3 library should be installed (via luarocks for example).

$ telegram-cli -s backup.lua

Requirements

• telegram-cli
• lua

And if writing to a sqlite database:

• Lua lsqlite3 (can be installed by $ luarocks install lsqlite3)