Telegram Index

Python Web App which indexes a telegram channel(or a chat) and serves its files for download.

Highlights

• Index one or more telegram channels/chats.
• View messages and media files on the browser.
• Search through the channel/chat.
• Download media files through browser/download managers.

Deploy Guide

• Clone to local machine.

$ git clone https://github.com/odysseusmax/tg-index.git

$ cd tg-index

• Create and activate virtual environment.

$ python -m venv venv

$ source venv/bin/activate

• Install dependencies.

$ pip3 install -U -r requirements.txt

• Environment Variables.

Variable Name	Value
API_ID (required)	Telegram api_id obtained from https://my.telegram.org/apps.
API_HASH (required)	Telegram api_hash obtained from https://my.telegram.org/apps.
INDEX_SETTINGS (required)	See the below description.
SESSION_STRING (required)	String obtained by running $ python3 app/generate_session_string.py. (Login with the telegram account which is a participant of the given channel (or chat).
PORT (optional)	Port on which app should listen to, defaults to 8080.
HOST (optional)	Host name on which app should listen to, defaults to 0.0.0.0.
DEBUG (optional)	Give true to set logging level to debug, info by default.
BLOCK_DOWNLOADS (optional)	Enable downloads or not. If any value is provided, downloads will be disabled.
RESULTS_PER_PAGE (optional)	Number of results to be returned per page defaults to 20.
TGINDEX_USERNAME (optional)	Username for authentication, defaults to ''.
PASSWORD (optional)	Password for authentication, defaults to ''.
SHORT_URL_LEN (optional)	Url length for aliases
SESSION_COOKIE_LIFETIME (optional)	Number of minutes, for which authenticated session is valid for, after which user has to login again. defaults to 60.
SECRET_KEY (optional)	32 characters long string for signing the session cookies, required if authentication is enabled.

• Setting value for INDEX_SETTINGS

This is the general format, change the values of corresponding fields as your requirements. You can copy paste this as is to index all the channels available in your account.

Remember to remove spaces.

{
  "index_all": true,
  "index_private": false,
  "index_group": false,
  "index_channel": true,
  "exclude_chats": [],
  "include_chats": []
}

• index_all - Whether to consider all the chats associated with the telegram account. Value should either be true or false.
• index_private - Whether to index private chats. Only considered if index_all is set to true. Value should either be true or false.
• index_group - Whether to index group chats. Only considered if index_all is set to true. Value should either be true or false.
• index_channel - Whether to index channels. Only considered if index_all is set to true. Value should either be true or false.
• exclude_chats - An array/list of chat id's that should be ignored for indexing. Only considered if index_all is set to true.
• include_chats - An array/list of chat id's to index. Only considered if index_all is set to false.

• Run app.

python3 -m app

Deploy Guide (Repl.it)

A detailed and beginner friendly guide on how to deploy this project on a free instance of https://repl.it can be found here.

Contributions

Contributions are welcome.

Contact

You can contact me @odysseusmax.

License

Code released under The GNU General Public License.