When (on iPhone) you receive the messages from the bot as single user you can easily remove the history from the chat, but when using a channel (so multiple users receive the same message) you just can't. Then you have to select each individual message to remove it. A huge work if you use the Telegram system a lot.
Based on the Telegram CLI program I created a script that removes all messages that are older than x seconds. Freeing the chat history and memory of your phone. Especially handy if you also receive pictures from cameras.
First you need to get the Telegram-cli from https://github.com/vysheng/tg up and running.
Then create a file /home/pi/cleantelegram.sh and make it executable
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#!/bin/bash
pgrep telegram-cli && running=1 || running=0
if [ $running == 0 ] ; then
echo $(/home/pi/tg/bin/telegram-cli -k tg-server.pub -W -N -e 'history Egregius 5000' --json -C --permanent-msg-ids) > /var/log/telegram.txt
sleep 1
/home/pi/cleantelegram.php channel 259200
sleep 1
echo $(/home/pi/tg/bin/telegram-cli -k tg-server.pub -W -N -e 'history Egregius#1 5000' --json -C --permanent-msg-ids) > /var/log/telegram.txt
sleep 1
/home/pi/cleantelegram.php bot 259200
else
echo 'already running'
sleep 5
sudo killall telegram-cli
fi
Then create the /home/pi/cleantelegram.php file and make it executable
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#!/usr/bin/php
<?php
error_reporting(E_ALL);ini_set("display_errors","on");
$data=file_get_contents('/var/log/telegram.txt');
$data=strstr($data,"[{");
$data=substr($data,1);
$data = substr($data, 0, strpos($data, "]"));
$datas=explode('}, {',$data);
foreach($datas as $data){
$encoded='{'.$data.'}';
$encoded=str_replace('{{','{',$encoded);
$decoded=json_decode($encoded,false);
$msg='';
if(!empty($decoded->id)&&!empty($decoded->date)) {
//This is the message id from the text 'channel created' that can't be deleted, change it if needed
if($decoded->id!='05000000980ee83e010000000000000044653f1eedca68e6'){
if($decoded->date<(time()-$argv[2])) {
$clean= $decoded->id;$tijd=$decoded->date;
isset($decoded->text)?$tekst=$decoded->text:$tekst='FOTO';
$msg.='-'.strftime("%e-%d %k:%M",$tijd).' '.$tekst;
logwrite($msg,$argv[1]);
shell_exec("/home/pi/tg/bin/telegram-cli -k tg-server.pub -W -N -e 'delete_msg $clean' -C --permanent-msg-ids");
print $msg.PHP_EOL;
sleep(15);
} else {
logwrite('Arrived at recent messages');
die('Arrived at recent messages of '.$argv[1].PHP_EOL);
}
}
}
}
function logwrite($msg,$msg2=NULL){
$time=microtime(true);$dFormat="Y-m-d H:i:s";$mSecs=$time-floor($time);$mSecs=substr(number_format($mSecs,3),1);
$fp=fopen('/files/temp/cleantelegram.txt',"a+");fwrite($fp,sprintf("%s%s %s %s\n",date($dFormat),$mSecs,$msg2,$msg));fclose($fp);
}
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