Hi, after installing lua and sqlite3 (using luarocks) I get the output below.
Looks like the script is looking for lsqlite3.so in /usr/local/share/lua/5.2 but it was actually installed in /usr/local/share/lua/5.1. Lua version is 5.2.

How can I make the script look for the right path or version?

*** lua: backup.lua:53: module 'lsqlite3' not found:
no field package.preload['lsqlite3']
no file '/usr/local/share/lua/5.2/lsqlite3.lua'
no file '/usr/local/share/lua/5.2/lsqlite3/init.lua'
no file '/usr/local/lib/lua/5.2/lsqlite3.lua'
no file '/usr/local/lib/lua/5.2/lsqlite3/init.lua'
no file '/usr/share/lua/5.2/lsqlite3.lua'
no file '/usr/share/lua/5.2/lsqlite3/init.lua'
no file './lsqlite3.lua'
no file '/usr/local/lib/lua/5.2/lsqlite3.so'
no file '/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/lua/5.2/lsqlite3.so'
no file '/usr/lib/lua/5.2/lsqlite3.so'
no file '/usr/local/lib/lua/5.2/loadall.so'
no file './lsqlite3.so'

I know that I am kinda a noob but if I try to start the "telegram-cli -s backup.lua" command it gives me the error: telegram-cli: command not found
What do I do wrong?
Can you give me a detailed guide on how to start the script

I have lua installed and telegram-cli

Hi Samim,

If possible, please take a look at the source and see if you can make it work to keep history more than 500+
Right now I only can use 500 which is not adequate.
For 800 configuration, I got the following error after the messages have been exported:
*** lua: telegram-cli-backup/backup.lua:15: bad argument #1 to 'write' (string expected, got nil)

Thanks

Is it possible to modify the script to make a backup of names and phones from the contact list instead of the dialog list?
I was able to disable the message backup feature and just get the names and phones, but they are taken from dialog list, not contact list.
Thanks

I've tried properly everything: sqlite3 by using luarocks, the tg client and getted the script.

Then I execute the following:
bin/telegram-cli -s bin/backup.lua

And it executes the telegram-cli but not the script: there's no info in the sqlite nor print the "done". So, I assume that's not doing nothing.

Any idea?

Can I import this backup to another account in some way?
For example by using Telegram import feature in some way.

Hello!

Do you now limits of this?
is it possible to retrieve all text messages from 2014 till 2017?
it is about 100000 of them

Hi and thanks for your script.
I want to backup my profile every day; but in this way it takes a lot of times, because I'm member of many groups.
can you add partial backup ability to your script?

After executing command. How to view the backup data

Hi, I want to retrieve all my 35000 messages of one of my contacts.

It is possible to send offset in history method but I don't know how to add this option.

Can you guide me?

Can CSV support be added?

Hi,

when running your script (../tg/bin/telegram-cli -s backup.lua), I just get
" *** No public keys found"
after the configuration shown.

Is there something I'm doing wrong?

Do you need more information?

Cheers

Hi I would like to save only the newest message ( or like only few ones) so the best idea is cron job which runs the script like every ~10 minutes (cron job). Is there a better way. I also want it only from a certain channel but I'd use another profile, afaik this option is not in telegram-cli

LuaSQL need to be installed, not LuaSQLite3.

$ luarocks install luasql-sqlite3