Extracting data from telegram with telethon.

• Visit the official telegram website - http://my.telegram.org/

• Log in with your phone-number and confirmation code from telegram, to manage your apps using Telegram API or delete your account.

• On the telegram core sub-menu, click on API development tools and fill the required fields. Choose any name and random url for your app.

• After submitting, you will receive your api_id and api_hash

• Create a .env file, where you'll paste your api_id, api_hash and phone number then add the following:-

API_ID=
API_HASH=
PHONE_NUMBER=

• Create a telegram_code.txt file, then add the telegram code sent to your device. Edit the file like this, e.g - telegram_code=12345

• Also create a telegram_output.txt file, where the extracted data will be stored.

DISCLAIMER

Ensure you don't leak either of the files to the public. For safety, add them to .gitignore

python -m pip > requirements.txt

pip install virtualenv

pip install virtualenvwrapper-win

pip install telethon

pip install pandas

pip install python-dotenv