What is telegram-channel-saver CLAUDE.md?

Repository guidance for Telegram Channel Saver, a Python tool that downloads and analyzes messages from Telegram channels and groups. It describes its features, files, and development workspace.

Use it when saving messages, reactions, media details, and user activity; searching stored messages; supporting multiple accounts; or handling downloads and rate limits.

It gives a coding agent the project’s purpose and working structure, reducing guesswork when changing or testing the tool.

How sergebulaev/telegram-channel-saver configures Claude Code

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to sergebulaev/telegram-channel-saver. Take a copy, put it at the same path in your own repository, and replace the rules that are about this project with yours.

Copy the file

curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/sergebulaev/telegram-channel-saver/main/CLAUDE.md

Clone the repo

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/sergebulaev/telegram-channel-saver

Made for: Claude Code.

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README.md

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Per session 923 This file is loaded in full into every session.

When invoked 923 The same file — it is already loaded in full.

Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.

Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.

Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

Model	Per session	Once invoked
Fable 5.1	$0.00923	$0.00923
Opus 5.5	$0.00369	$0.00369
Sonnet 5.5	$0.00185	$0.00185
Haiku 4.5	$0.00092	$0.00092

Measured 2mo ago against content hash cb6efb0d4519, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

telegram-channel-saver CLAUDE.md scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 2mo ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

CLAUDE.md · 116 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 116 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Telegram Channel Saver

Project Description

Telegram Channel Saver is a Python tool for saving and analyzing Telegram channel content. The application connects to Telegram API using user credentials, allows browsing and selecting channels/groups, and provides functionality to download and store messages, track users, and search through saved content.

Key Features

Save channel messages with reactions and media information
Track channel users and their activity
Search through saved messages by text, date, or ID
Support for multiple Telegram accounts
Message download with rate limiting and error handling
Detailed statistics about saved content

File Structure

/telegram-channel-saver/
  ├── LICENSE             # MIT License
  ├── README.md           # Project documentation
  ├── docs/
  │   └── telethon.txt    # Telethon library documentation
  ├── requirements.txt    # Project dependencies
  ├── saver.py            # Main application code
  ├── CLAUDE.md           # Best practices and code guidelines
  ├── tools/              # Testing tools and utilities (Claude's workspace)
  │   ├── venv/           # Separate virtual environment for tools
  │   └── *.py            # Test scripts and utilities
  └── temp/               # Storage directory for data and sessions
      └── channel_saver/  # Application data storage location

Claude AI Development Rules

API Documentation

Always use context7 to get the most recent API documentation before implementing features
Do not rely on training data for library APIs - fetch current docs via context7
When working with Telethon, Telegram API, or any external library, query context7 first

Tools Directory

Claude can create test tools and utilities in the tools/ directory
Use the separate venv located at tools/venv/ for running test scripts
Activate with: source tools/venv/bin/activate
Install dependencies in tools venv: tools/venv/bin/pip install <package>
Run tools with: tools/venv/bin/python tools/<script>.py
Tools are for testing pipelines, debugging, and validating implementations
Keep tools separate from main application code

Read the full file on GitHub · 116 lines

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

2mo ago First seen · 116 lines · 923 tokens per session scan A cb6efb0d4519

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telegram-channel-saver CLAUDE.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository sergebulaev/telegram-channel-saver (121 stars, last pushed 10mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 923 tokens to every session, about $0.0037 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

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