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Replicant project Mobilfunkanbieter des Jahres 2013 | congstar HOWTO backup your Telegram chats (if you don’t fear the terminal) » Hay Kranen Considering that WhatsApp was sold in February 2014 to Facebook for a petty $19 billion dollars you might have looked around for alternatives. Currently the most promising messaging client is Telegram, an alternative mostly financed by Pavel Durov, who ironically founded Facebook’s biggest competitor in Russia: VK. Now some people might suggest switching from WhatsApp to Telegram is simply trading one evil (Facebook) for another (VK). Anyway, one missing feature (the only one, in my opinion) is the ‘export chat’ option that is available on WhatsApp. There are multiple feature requests for the various (semi) official apps, but currently there doesn’t seem to be a simple solution. Anyway, i found a hack, but unfortunately it’s pretty technical and not for those afraid of the command line. We’re going to use a command line Telegram client called tg. Here are the steps to make an export of your chats: I know, this is all pretty clunky. 28 comments