commit 025c2ff9cab48b2d144af2dd166f098afe6bf3de
Author: mrbesen <y.g.2@gmx.de>
Date:   Tue May 29 08:33:37 2018 +0200

    Inital Commit

diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
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+out/chat.xml
+out/media/*
+*.session
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
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+### TelegramChatDownloader
+A CLI program to download a chat from telegram.
+##### How to install (linux only)
+requirements:
+* python3
+* [telethon](https://github.com/LonamiWebs/Telethon)
+* [TelegramAPI-ID](https://core.telegram.org/api/obtaining_api_id)
+install requirements:
+```sudo apt install python3-pip git
+pip3 install telethon```
+get the downloader:
+```git clone https://github.com/mrbesen/TelegramChatDownloader.git```
+open the file telegramApi.py and enter your API ID, token and username.
+run:
+```cd TelegramChatDownloader/
+./telegramApi.py```
+##### Output Format
+The chat structure is stored as "chat.xml" in the folder "out/"
+All Media-files are Stored in the Folder out/media/
+Stickers get downloaded too, but they wont get a file-postfix.
+They are stored in the [WEBP](https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/WebP) format.
diff --git a/telegramApi.py b/telegramApi.py
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+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+from telethon import TelegramClient, events
+from datetime import timedelta
+import sys
+
+# EDIT HERE ↓
+api_id = api_id
+api_hash = 'api_hash'
+workers = 4
+session_name = 'user_name'
+# EDIT HERE ↑
+
+def printDialog(d):
+  print (d.id, " ", d.name," ", d.pinned)
+
+def findDialog(dialogs, id):
+  for d in dialogs:
+    if d.id == id:
+      return d
+  return None
+
+def saveMessage(message, file, dlid, ownid):
+#  print(message)
+  file.write('  <message>\n    <date>')
+  file.write(message.date.strftime("%s"))
+  file.write('</date>\n    <msg>')  
+  file.write(message.message)
+  file.write('</msg>\n    <me>')
+  file.write(str(int(ownid==message.from_id)))
+  file.write('</me>\n')
+  #dl and write media if exist
+  out = None
+  if message.media != None:
+    file.write('    <media>')
+    file.write(str(dlid))
+    file.write('</media>\n')
+    out = message
+
+  file.write('  </message>\n')
+  return out
+
+class DelayedDownload:
+  """A class to store the data, for other methods to download media later"""
+  message=None
+  id=1
+  def __init__(self, _id, msg):
+    self.id = _id
+    self.message = msg
+
+# create connection
+client = TelegramClient(session_name, api_id, api_hash, update_workers=workers, spawn_read_thread=True)
+client.start()
+
+me = client.get_me()
+#get dialogs
+dialogs = client.get_dialogs(limit=100)
+
+print ("chats loaded. (" , len(dialogs), ")")
+#print chats
+for d in dialogs:
+  printDialog(d)
+get = int(input("Please Enter Chat ID: "))
+selectedDialog = findDialog(dialogs, get)
+if selectedDialog == None:
+  print ("Unknown Chat ID!")
+  exit(1)
+
+print ("selected: ", selectedDialog.name, 'retriving chat!')
+
+chat = client.get_messages(selectedDialog, limit=2000000)
+print("retrived ", len(chat), " Messages.")
+
+toDL = []#list of messages, where media should be downloaded
+
+fout = open('out/chat.xml','x')
+fout.write('<chat>\n')
+for c in chat:
+  dl = saveMessage(c, fout, len(toDL),me.id)
+  if dl != None:
+    if dl.media != None:
+    #here is something to download later
+      toDL.append(DelayedDownload(len(toDL),c))
+fout.write('</chat>\n')
+fout.close()
+
+print('Chat structure stored. Downloading Media - this may take a while!')
+for dl in toDL:
+  print ('.', end='')
+  client.download_media(dl.message, "out/media/" + str(dl.id))
+print('\n', len(toDL), " Media Files Downloaded.")
+print ('End.')