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How I Recovered Deleted Telegram Messages and Media (and You Can Too)
- Dmitrii Gusev, a Frontend Developer, accidentally deleted years worth of Telegram group chat data, including media and messages.
- Telegram doesn't offer an official method to restore deleted group messages or media.
- Dmitrii reverse-engineered Telegram's Admin Log using MTProto API to access deleted content.
- He rewrote a script to extract deleted text messages, download media files, and export data into a clean dump.json.
- The recovery tool was built using Telethon, a Python library for interacting with Telegram's MTProto API.
- The script successfully recovered all media files deleted in the accidental wipe after running for approximately 8 hours.
- Instructions on how to use the recovery tool are provided in the post.
- Lessons learned include the temporary storage of deleted content for group chats by Telegram.
- Access to deleted data via MTProto is possible within 48 hours of deletion, specifically for group chats.
- The tool is open to contributions, suggestions, and bug reports.
- Dmitrii's technical dive into recovering deleted Telegram data serves as a useful tool for similar situations.
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