Ynjxsjmh / telegram-rough-search

Search in Telegram between some dates

Telegram Rough Search

Usage

$ python search.py --help
usage: search.py [-h] [--search_text SEARCH_TEXT]
                 [--skip_channel SKIP_CHANNEL] [--skip_group SKIP_GROUP]
                 [--skip_user SKIP_USER]
                 [--message_limit_channel MESSAGE_LIMIT_CHANNEL]
                 [--message_limit_group MESSAGE_LIMIT_GROUP]
                 [--message_limit_user MESSAGE_LIMIT_USER]
                 [--date_start DATE_START] [--date_end DATE_END]

Settings.

optional arguments:
  -h, --help            show this help message and exit
  --search_text SEARCH_TEXT
                        Text to be searched in current account
  --skip_channel SKIP_CHANNEL
                        Whether to skip channel when search
  --skip_group SKIP_GROUP
                        Whether to skip group when search
  --skip_user SKIP_USER
                        Whether to skip user and bot when search
  --message_limit_channel MESSAGE_LIMIT_CHANNEL
                        Number of messages to be retrieved for channel.
  --message_limit_group MESSAGE_LIMIT_GROUP
                        Number of messages to be retrieved for group.
  --message_limit_user MESSAGE_LIMIT_USER
                        Number of messages to be retrieved for user and bot.
  --date_start DATE_START
                        YYYY-mm-dd format. Messages AFTER to this date will be
                        retrieved. Inclusive.
  --date_end DATE_END   YYYY-mm-dd format. Messages PREVIOUS to this date will
                        be retrieved. Exclusive.

Examples

Search test in messages

$ python search.py --search_text='test'

Search test in messages but skip group and user/bot

$ python3 search.py --search_text='test' --skip_group=True --skip_user=True

Search test in messages started from 2022-07-11, include 2022-07-11.

NOTE that timezone is UTC by default which might be different from your local.

$ python3 search.py --search_text='test' --date_start='2022-07-11'

Search test in messages between date [2022-07-11, 2022-07-13)

$ python3 search.py --search_text='test' --date_start='2022-07-11' --date_end='2022-07-13'