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Coordinates scrapers and interfaces with database
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Implement Telegram scraper for groups/private channels #5

Open loganwilliams opened 2 years ago

loganwilliams commented 2 years ago

This will require the Telegram API/Telethon. Have multiple Telegram API credentials (e.g. one for each country), and have them join groups/chats for their corresponding country. That way the entities won't need to get repeatedly re-populated

loganwilliams commented 2 years ago

@trislee We can scrape from public chat groups with the Telethon scraper, right? So the only functionality missing here is scraping from chat groups that require an invite link to join?

We should think about how that should be implemented...