Python Client to scrape messages, save to MySQL DB and serve to get requests.

Setup:

1. Python (3.10)
   1. Pip install telethon==1.28.5, mysql-connector-python==8.0.33 and Flask==1.0.2 (All written in the requirement.txt file)
2. You'll need MySQL Server
   1. Get the username, password, hostname and port to the database_settings.json file
3. Activated Telegram account
   1. After activation go to https://my.telegram.org/ and menage apps
   2. Put your phone number, api id and api hash in the credentials.json file

Example for credentials.json file:

{
  "clients": [
      {
        "phone_number": "+972 123 456 789",
        "api_id": 12345678,
        "api_hash": "1234567890abcdef1234567890abcdef"
      }
    ]
}

Run:

1. You'll need to run the telegram scraper every once in a while
2. Run the server
   1. Example request: http://localhost:5000/data?from_date=2023-06-20&to_date=2023-06-30&chat_name=cool chat