akoshelnik/tdshell

An interactive Telegram command line interface around TDLib.

TDShell

An interactive Telegram command line interface utilizing TDLib.

Usage

Running Modes

TDShell can be run in two different ways:

• Interactive mode: Simply type tdshell with some options.
• One-shot command mode: Run commands as if they are sub-commands of tdshell.

A Telegram database will be generated in the current working directory. However, you can change its location using the tdshell -d path/to/folder option. To encrypt this database, you will be prompted to enter an encryption key. If you prefer not to set an encryption key, use tdshell -N to set an empty key.

Type help to view available commands, and exit to close TDShell.

Downloading Media Files

This is the primary goal of my development of TDShell:

# Download files in messages with given message IDs
download --chat-id -1001472283207 --ids 6887137168 6887184146

# Download files in messages given post links
download --output-folder ./videos/news/ --links https://t.me/AChannel/6560 https://t.me/BChannel/123

# Download files from message XX to message YY
download --chat-id AChannel --range XX YY
download --chat-id AChannel --range XX,YY
download --chat-id AChannel --range XX --range YY

Viewing Chats or Messages

Use --help to view options for the following commands:

• chats: A command to list all chats in your account.
• history: View the history of a chat.
• chatinfo: Retrieve information about a chat.
• messagelink: Read post links and print messages.

How to Develop

Windows

Use vcpkg to install dependencies:

./vcpkg.exe install gperf:x64-windows openssl:x64-windows zlib:x64-windows

Place the toolchain file CMAKE_TOOLCHAIN_FILE=[vcpkg root]/scripts/buildsystems/vcpkg.cmake in the CMake configuration settings of your preferred IDE. Please refer to Using vcpkg with CMake.

Example for VSCode:

{
    "cmake.configureSettings": {
        "CMAKE_TOOLCHAIN_FILE": "C:/src/vcpkg/scripts/buildsystems/vcpkg.cmake"
    }
}

Linux

Ensure that zlib, OpenSSL, and gperf are installed:

sudo apt-get install zlib1g-dev libssl-dev gperf

Then, use CMake to build the project.