A simple script to forward all the messages of one chat (indivisual/group/channel) to another. Made using Telethon. Can be used to back up the contents of a chat to another place.
First of all you need to have your Telegram account's api_id
and api_hash
.
Learn how to get them.
- Clone this repo and move into it to get started.
git clone https://github.com/aahnik/telegram-chat-forward.git && cd telegram-chat-forward
- Create a virtual environment and install dependencies.
python3 -m venv venv && . venv/bin/activate
pip3 install -r requirements.txt
Note: For Windows, the process for activating a virtual environment is different, search Google.
You must have the api_id
and api_hash
as environment variables.
You may simply create a file named .env
in the project directory and paste the following into it.
api_id=12345
api_hash=kjfjfk9r9JOIJOIjoijf9wr0w
Replace the above values with the actual values for your telegram account.
After this you need to create and fill up the config.ini
file with your forwarding configurations.
-
The
from
andto
in theconfig.ini
has to be a username/phone/link/chat_id of the chat. -
To confirm that you are using the correct
from
andto
run theget_chat_info.py
script. -
You may have as many as forwarding pairs as you wish. Make sure to give a unique header to each pair. Follow the syntax shown below.
[name of forward1]
; in the above line give any name as you wish
; the square brackets around the name should remain
from = whatAz
to = testWha
offset = 0
; the offset will auto-update, keep it zero initially
[another name]
; the name of section must be unique
from = someone
to = another
offset = 0
Note:Any line starting with
;
in a.ini
file, is treated as a comment.
- When you run the script for the first time, keep
offset=0
. - When the script runs, the value of offset in
config.ini
gets updated automatically. - Offset is basically the id of the last message forwarded from
from
toto
. - When you run the script next time, the messages in
from
having an id greater than offset (newer messages) will be forwarded toto
. That is why it is important not to loose the value ofoffset
.
After setting up the config.ini
, run the forwarder.py
script.
python3 forwarder.py
You have to login for the first time using your phone number (inter-national format) and login code.
A session file called forwarder.session
will be generated. Please don't delete this and make sure to keep this file secret.
Feel free to ask your questions in the Discussion section. For bugs and feature requests use the issues section of this repo.
To get all information about any particular chat:
- Run the script
run_chat_info.py
. - Open Telegram and send
.id
to any chat to get the chat id. - Send
.info
to any chat to get details of the chat. - When you are done, come back to your terminal and press CTRL + C to stop.