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 "generated": "2026-10-24",
 "id": "themyxa-telegram-parser--export-channel-comments-to-json",
 "repo": "TheMyxa/telegram-parser",
 "repo_url": "https://github.com/TheMyxa/telegram-parser",
 "repo_slug": "themyxa-telegram-parser",
 "title": "Export a Telegram channel's posts and comments to JSON",
 "page_title": "How to export a Telegram channel's posts and comments to JSON with Telegram Parser",
 "summary": "Pull posts, discussion comments, and reactions from your channel into a local JSON file for analysis.",
 "who": "A community manager or analyst who needs a full local copy of a channel's discussion for review or reporting.",
 "problem": "Comment threads and reactions in Telegram are hard to analyze in the app and cannot be filtered or summarized offline.",
 "outcome": "A dated JSON export in data/raw that the dashboard can open and that other tools can read.",
 "steps": [
  "Get `API_ID` and `API_HASH` at `https://my.telegram.org/apps`.",
  "Run `docker compose up --build` once so Docker creates `.env` from `.env.example`.",
  "Open `http://localhost:9595`, then fill in the Telegram settings in the Export tab.",
  "Run `docker compose run --rm cli export json` to start the export from the command line.",
  "Open the new file under `data/raw/` in the dashboard."
 ],
 "agent_prompt": "In the TheMyxa/telegram-parser repo, configure .env with API_ID, API_HASH, CHANNEL set to <channel-username>, and TELEGRAM_SESSION, then run `docker compose run --rm cli export json`. Expected output is a new JSON file in data/raw/. Verify the file exists and contains a list of posts before reporting success.",
 "agents": [
  "any"
 ],
 "difficulty": "Intermediate",
 "time": "1 hour",
 "basis": "readme",
 "caveat": "Live exports need your own Telegram account session, and the README does not describe how the session file is created.",
 "category": "Data and analytics",
 "tags": [
  "Data and analytics"
 ],
 "lang": "python",
 "requirements": [
  "Docker Desktop (recommended) or Python with the packages in requirements.txt",
  "Telegram API credentials: API_ID and API_HASH from https://my.telegram.org/apps",
  "A Telegram account session for Telethon, needed only for live exports"
 ],
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 "seen_in_the_wild": false,
 "mentioned_publicly": false,
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  {
   "tag": "credentials",
   "notice": "The export needs your Telegram API_HASH and a Telethon session file, so keep .env and the sessions folder private and out of shared repos."
  }
 ],
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 "score": 0.9,
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