blueset / polls_channel_history

Polls Channel Messages Log

Polls Channel Messages Log

A simple and brutal public message log for Telegram channels, focused on text and poll messages.

• For text messages or media message with a caption, the text/caption is used.
• For poll/quiz messages, the question and all options are used.
• Message ID is always used to produce a link to the message.
• There is no indication about message type.

Details

• Web: https://blueset.github.io/polls_channel_history
• Updated daily via GitHub Actions
• Code license: MIT

How to use this for your own channel?

1. Clone or download this repository locally.
2. Install Python 3.
3. Install all Python dependency packages via python3 -m pip install -r requirements.txt.
4. Export your channel using Telegram Desktop, choose the time range of messages, and export to JSON format with no media file.
   • Open a channel in Telegram Desktop
   • Click the 3 dots at the corner
   • Click “Export channel history”
   • Uncheck all boxes
   • Click the text after “Format” and choose “Machine-readable JSON”
5. Generate the initial message list JSON use python3 from_telegram_desktop_export_json.py < YOUR_EXPORTED_JSON.json > data.json
6. Edit template.html with information about your own channel.
7. Run python3 render_data.py to build the web page. The final web page is index.html.
8. For further updates, edit load_latest_from_tme.py, replace the channel username after CHANNEL_ID=" with your own one. Note: this only work for public channels. Run this script with python3 load_latest_from_tme.py to update the content. The script will warn you if auto update is failed due to more than 20 messages added since last update.