How I Recovered Deleted Telegram Messages and Media (and You Can Too)

🧵 TL;DR: I accidentally deleted over 350,000 messages and 20,000 media files from a private Telegram group — a full 3-year archive. Panic mode: ON. Turns out, deleted messages in Telegram aren’t always lost forever. If you're quick, there's a technical way to recover part of it — but only under specific conditions. I wrote a detailed guide (with code) on how I recovered the data using Telegram’s Admin Log, MTProto, and Python (Telethon library). The tool lets you dump deleted messages and media, and even resend them back into chats. ✅ What’s inside: - "What Telegram actually deletes (and when)" - "How I used Admin Log to recover content" - "How the Telegram API exposes partial traces via MTProto" - "Open-source Python scripts: backup & resender" - "Real case: 8 hours to restore 3 years of lost group history" I’m happy to answer technical questions, help you run the scripts, or improve the code. Also open to collabs if someone wants to take it further. P.S. This doesn't work for private 1-on-1 chats — only groups and channels.