Telegram Scraper is a Python tool for scraping messages from a Telegram channel using web scraping techniques. This tool extracts a specified number of messages from a given Telegram channel URL and supports the use of a proxy.

• Extract messages from a Telegram channel.
• Supports pagination to retrieve older messages.
• Optional proxy support for making requests.

• Python 3.x
• requests library
• beautifulsoup4 library

First, clone the repository:

git clone https://github.com/yourusername/telegram-scraper.git
cd telegram-scraper

Install the required Python packages:

pip install -r requirements.txt

Here's an example script (example.py) to demonstrate how to use the TelegramScraper class:

from telegram_scraper import TelegramScraper

def main():
    # URL of the Telegram channel
    channel_url = 'https://t.me/s/mobydick_crypto'
    
    # Create an instance of TelegramScraper
    scraper = TelegramScraper(channel_url, 100)
    
    # Set proxy if needed
    # scraper.set_proxy('http://your_proxy_address:port')
    
    # Fetch messages
    messages = scraper.fetch_messages()
    
    # Display messages
    for i, message in enumerate(messages, 1):
        print(f"{i}: {message}")

if __name__ == "__main__":
    main()

To run the example script:

python example.py

A class for scraping messages from a Telegram channel.

• base_url (str): The URL of the Telegram channel.
• num_messages (int): The number of messages to retrieve.

• proxy (str): The proxy address (e.g., 'http://127.0.0.1:8080').

Sets the proxy for making requests.

Fetches messages from the Telegram channel.

• Returns: list of messages.

Unit tests for the TelegramScraper class are provided in test_telegram_scraper.py.

To run the tests, use the following command:

python -m unittest test_telegram_scraper.py

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├── telegram_scraper.py
├── test_telegram_scraper.py
├── example.py
├── requirements.txt
└── README.md

This project is licensed under the MIT License - see the LICENSE file for details.

Contributions are welcome! Please feel free to submit a Pull Request.

If you have any questions or suggestions, please feel free to contact me at https://t.me/amirspecial