Analyze Your Telegram Chats
A small tutorial how you can easily explore your Telegram (https://desktop.telegram.org/) chat messages using Digger Solo.
Export the messages of a Telegram chat by clicking the three dots (top right corner) and select "Export chat history". Next select as export format JSON (not HTML).
Open a console and change directory into the chat export directory containing the result.json file. Next open up a Python 3 interpreter: ipython3 and paste following code. Hit enter - et voila! All your messages have been converted into files in the directory messages which you can now import and explore with Digger Solo.
import json
import os
import re
def merge_text(text):
if isinstance(text, list):
merged = ""
for part in text:
if isinstance(part, dict) and part.get("type") == "link":
merged += part.get("text", "")
elif isinstance(part, str):
merged += part
return merged
elif isinstance(text, str):
return text
return ""
def safe_filename(s, maxlen=100):
# Remove/replace unsafe characters and trim to maxlen
s = re.sub(r'[\\/*?:"<>|]', '_', s) # Replace filesystem-forbidden chars
return s[:maxlen] or "empty_message"
def save_messages(messages):
os.makedirs("messages", exist_ok=True)
for msg in messages:
content = merge_text(msg.get("text", ""))
filename = safe_filename(content)
filepath = os.path.join("messages", f"{filename}.txt")
with open(filepath, "w", encoding="utf-8") as f:
f.write(content)
if __name__ == "__main__":
with open('result.json', 'r', encoding='utf-8') as f:
data = json.load(f)
save_messages(data["messages"])