There are two conditions to export group members of a telegram public group.
1) It should be a Public group but you do not need to be an administrator or owner of the group, You can import / export members of any public group, just you should be a member of the group.
2) If a member has selected ‘My Contacts’ option in ‘who can add you to groups and channels’ then you should be added in his/her contact list, only then you can import him/her into a group.
To export group members, First Generate api id and api hash in your telegram account. To do this, open my.telegram.org
Login using your registered phone number.
Now Open Link Development Tools and copy your api id and hash
We will use the api id and hash in the Python Script
Create virtual environment with python 3 and install Telethon using pip.
virtualenv telegram -p /usr/bin/python3
source telegram/bin/activate
pip install Telethon==1.23.0
Update API ID, API hash and telegram registered phone number in the following python script export.py.
from telethon.sync import TelegramClient
from telethon.tl.functions.messages import GetDialogsRequest
from telethon.tl.types import InputPeerEmpty
import csv
api_id = 9999999
api_hash = 'zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz'
phone = '+919999999999'
client = TelegramClient(phone, api_id, api_hash)
client.connect()
if not client.is_user_authorized():
client.send_code_request(phone)
client.sign_in(phone, input('Enter the code: '))
chats = []
last_date = None
chunk_size = 200
groups=[]
result = client(GetDialogsRequest(
offset_date=last_date,
offset_id=0,
offset_peer=InputPeerEmpty(),
limit=chunk_size,
hash = 0
))
chats.extend(result.chats)
for chat in chats:
try:
if chat.megagroup== True:
groups.append(chat)
except:
continue
print('Choose a group to scrape members from:')
i=0
for g in groups:
print(str(i) + '- ' + g.title)
i+=1
g_index = input("Enter a Number: ")
target_group=groups[int(g_index)]
print('Fetching Members...')
all_participants = []
all_participants = client.get_participants(target_group)
print('Saving In file...')
with open("members.csv","w",encoding='UTF-8') as f:
writer = csv.writer(f,delimiter=",",lineterminator="\n")
writer.writerow(['username','user id', 'access hash','name','group', 'group id'])
for user in all_participants:
if user.username:
username= user.username
else:
username= ""
if user.first_name:
first_name= user.first_name
else:
first_name= ""
if user.last_name:
last_name= user.last_name
else:
last_name= ""
name= (first_name + ' ' + last_name).strip()
writer.writerow([username,user.id,user.access_hash,name,target_group.title, target_group.id])
print('Members scraped successfully.')
Run the Python script in the same virtual env.
python export.py
It will list all your public groups. Choose number whose members you want to export.
It will export all group members by creating members.csv in the same directory.
cat members.csv
To see the steps :
Telegram Import Group Members :
https://linuxamination.blogspot.com/2022/04/telegram-import-members-of-public-group.html
