TGArchive viewer
A simple web UI for viewing telegram archives produced by tgarc command line tool.
Architecture
TGArchive viewer consists of three components:
- Search index – Elasticsearch
- Backend – python app build with FastAPI
- Frontend – React+Material UI SPA
On first run one should index zip files from tgarc. Only text content are indexed. All media (video, audio, photos) remains in zip files and served directly by backend app.
Build
Prerequisites: docker, docker-compose, npm.
Build frontend:
npm install
REACT_APP_API_ROOT=/api npm run build
Build docker images:
docker build --platform linux/amd64 -t tgarchive-backend -f backend.Dockerfile .
docker build --platform linux/amd64 -t tgarchive-frontend -f frontend.Dockerfile .
Deployment
Download Telegram archives in zip format to ./zipfile directory. Index all directory or specific files (If you have an error on first run, wait for a couple of minutes and retry):
docker-compose run --rm backend python /opt/api/tg_build_index.py /data/zipfiles/ http://elasticsearch:9200
Start docker-compose:
docker-compose up -d
