Telegram Explorer

This is an educational project. It is based on my friend's nephew's lab task.

The current status can be described as almost beta:

• the main window isn't resizable
• no save\export button (easy to add, but it's time to sleep :))
• concurrent-related issues must be here due it was the experiment: UI + asyncio

But, the goals were passed, and it was fun: I remembered the time when I was a student and did programming in Borland C++ Builder

Task description

• need to obtain the history of Telegram chat for a certain period
• the preferred language is Python

My educational aims

• investigate how to work with Telegram API
  • look at popular Python packages for work with it
• implement cli-tool (POC) via the selected library
• implement the gui-application
  • learn how to build gui-apps with the tkinter library
  • adapt to be able to work with asyncio
  • enhance ui (need to try to prettify)
    • themes
    • show a progress bar on async operations
    • make the main window resizable

References

• pyrogram: modern, elegant and asynchronous framework for Telegram API
• click: Python package for creating beautiful command line interfaces
• tkinter tutorial: building simple GUI applications with Tk & Python
• tkinter grid detailed: introduction to the Tkinter grid geometry manager
• ttkwidgets's documentation
• yet one tkinter tutorial