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Telegram to IRC log converter

Originally this project was supposed to be a simple tool to generate some statistics about telegram chats. But then I decided that this problem is already solved by pisg, and wrote a tool to convert telegram chats to IRC (specifically irssi) style logs.

Running it

Install requirements pip install -r requirements.txt
Create a config.json file, like so:
```
{
    "api_id": 000,
    "api_hash": "abcd1234"
}
```
- You will need to get your api ID and hash from https://my.telegram.org/apps
Run python3 convert_to_irssi_logs.py
- From there, it will ask for your phone number to log you in, and you'll get a telegram auth code sent to you.
- Then, on your first time running it, it will ask which chats you want to generate logs for.
- (On future runs, you can pass the "skip" argument to skip these questions. i.e. python3 convert_to_irssi_logs.py skip)
Run pisg to generate the pretty output files, which will appear in the pisg_output/ directory

Hints and tips:

You can add your own pisg config to the pisg.cfg file.
Extra user data can be added to irclogs_cache/data_store.json to the "user_extra_data" dictionary, with the key as the user ID, and then key=value for the things you would like to set in the generated users.cfg. This is useful for overriding real names that Telegram will serve up.
It can be handy to add a symbolic link from pisg_output/ to some web directory.

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