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Kiran
Kiran

Reputation: 8538

Telegram Telethon multiple keyword search

I am using Telethon package in Python to search for unique message from a channel. I am using the following code to search from the channel I am subscribed to:

for index, x in enumerate(client.iter_messages(group_name, search='New York')):
    TODO

As you can notice, I am searching for a single keyword "New York". I would like to search for multiple keywords using Logical Operator like "New York or Miami or Dallas or Houston"

Any idea how to do it ?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 2077

Answers (2)

GAS85
GAS85

Reputation: 13

You can define new function to "merge" multiple words if any and then it will work pretty well. E.g. like here:

def search_line_update(search_hashtag, search_serie_number):
    search_line = ( str(search_hashtag) + str(search_serie_number) )
    return search_line

# Search for particular episod and download it
def downloader():
    client.start()
    serie_number_to_update=0
    for message in client.iter_messages(search_channel, search=search_line_update(search_hashtag, search_serie_number)):
        print(message.id, message.text, '\n\n###\n')

Upvotes: 0

painor
painor

Reputation: 1237

When you use the parameter search= you are using the messages.search request from the API which does the search server side so you can't use logical operations.

To use logical operations you could use iter_messages and get all messages then get their .text and search in those.

Upvotes: 1

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