andrewsapw / telespider

Scrape messages from Telegram

🕸️ Telegram scrapper

Simple package (+ CLI) for scrapping Telegram channel

Features

✔️ auto explore new channels
✔️ search text
✔️ search mentions

Usage

$ pip install telespider
$ tspider search -w "stonks" -n 100 # search word `stonks`
$ tspider search -u "andrewsap" -n 100 # search mentions of user `andrewsap`

Configuration

App uses this environment variables:

• API_HASH and API_ID - required by Pyrogram (more about that here)
• ENTRYPOINT_CHANNELS - comma separated list of channels to begin search in
• MAX_PER_CHANNEL - max number of messages to parse from one channel (can be set with -n option from CLI)
• AUTO_EXPLORE_CHANNELS - automatically explore new channels and add them to queue for parsing (can be set with --explore\--no-explore options in CLI)
• SILENT - suppress all output