Telegram

Status: Available Your Telegram conversations, fetched by telecrawl, a local-first crawler that snapshots Telegram (Desktop tdata on Windows/Linux, the macOS Postbox store) into a local SQLite database at ~/.telecrawl/telecrawl.db. DuckBrain attaches that database read-only and maps each message to bronze — same shape as WhatsApp.

brew install openclaw/tap/telecrawl        # or pick Telegram in `duckbrain init`
telecrawl import                            # snapshot the Telegram store
duckbrain sync telegram
duckbrain search "meeting notes" --source telegram --since 60d
duckbrain search "flight details" --in "family"      # a group name or DM contact

What gets ingested

Conversational text only. One bronze row per message. Empty, service, and deleted messages carry no text and are dropped.
Idempotent. telecrawl import refreshes the snapshot; DuckBrain re-ingests and dedups on a stable per-message id, so nothing piles up.
Streaming trigger lane. The daemon watches Telegram Desktop’s local store; a new message is searchable about a minute after it lands.

Facet	Value
`--source`	`telegram` (alias `telecrawl`)
`--in`	the chat — a group name or the DM contact
title	`me` for your messages, else the sender
observer	`owner` (you) or `contact:<sender>` — who said it
platform_source	`telegram`

Rows are classification: confidential and never leave the machine.

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What gets ingested

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