- telegram-cli-backup A simple and dirty lua script to backup Telegram messages into a CSV file or a sqlite database.
- How Change first two lines of the script and set your contact name and message count. Then send the lua script to telegram-cli. If using CSV type, only lua is needed, if writing to a sqlite database, sqlite3 library should be installed (via luarocks for example). #+BEGIN_SRC sh $ telegram-cli -s backup.lua #+END_SRC
- Requirements
- [[https://github.com/vysheng/tg][telegram-cli]]
- lua
And if writing to a sqlite database:
- Lua lsqlite3 (can be installed by =$ luarocks install lsqlite3=)