lantern-scrapper-bot

Telegram channel bot scraper that saves the content locally:

• messages into raw json
• media (photo/video)
• documents

To make it happen you just need to invite your bot to the channel! Easy!

If you write directly to the bot with inline command /status {channel}, it responds with the count of stored messages for the given channel.

File format

• for messages is {YYYY-MM-DD_HH-mm-ss}_{message_id}
• for media and files {YYYY-MM-DD_HH-mm-ss}_{file_id}

Development

1. copy .env.example file for your local .env and set vars
2. create your telegram bot by instruction
3. npm i
4. Check that you have folder data in the root of the app
5. npm run dev (it requires nodemon)

Production

1. copy .env.example file for your local .env and set vars
2. create your telegram bot by instruction
3. npm i
4. Check that you have folder data in the root of the app
5. pm2 start index.js (it requires pm2)