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• 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=)