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Downloading from Telegram in bulk: what actually works

Telegram is where a lot of people keep photos, videos, voice notes, documents and course material: family groups, work channels, study groups, saved messages. Sooner or later you want those files on your own drive. The usual advice for how to download Telegram videos is the same everywhere: open each one and save it, because that is all the web version offers.

Why Telegram Web has no “download all” button

Telegram Web treats every message as its own item, so its menu acts on one file at a time. There is no way to select a hundred photos and save them together, no filter for videos only, and nothing that tells you which files you already saved. Telegram does keep the list of media in a chat, though, and that is what a good Telegram media downloader reads.

What a good Telegram downloader should do

The risk with any bulk tool is saving more than you meant to, or filling your computer while it works. A Telegram downloader worth installing should show you the files before it saves them, let you narrow them by type, date, size or sender, and write them to disk one by one rather than collecting everything in memory first. It should keep going if Telegram reloads, skip what you already have, and put the files in folders you can find again. TeleCache is built around exactly that.

Save videos, photos, audio and documents

Videos, photos, audio files, voice messages, documents, GIFs and round videos are all listed, with a count for each type and a preview where Telegram provides one. Pick the ones you want, or save the whole chat. Large videos use Telegram’s own download path, so a file over a gigabyte is saved the same way as a small photo, and the copy on your disk matches the original.

Stories and chat text

Stories of a contact or channel are scanned the same way as chat media. If you need the conversation itself, the Export tab saves a chat as a web page, plain text, JSON or CSV file, in order, with names and dates. Reading message text happens only when you press Export, and the result is a file on your computer.

Respecting restricted chats

Some channel and group owners turn off saving and forwarding. TeleCache respects that: in such a chat nothing is listed, saved or exported, and the panel says why. TeleCache is meant for the chats you can open and that allow saving, so use it for your own material and content you have the right to keep.

Privacy: what leaves your computer

Your chats do not. TeleCache never asks for your Telegram password or phone number and has no way to receive them; it works inside the Telegram Web session you already have open. The lists, previews, queue and exports stay on your device. Signing in with Google shares only your name, email address and profile photo, together with the number of the Telegram account you are using. If you also send messages to many people on Telegram, see TeleSendly.

TeleCache is an independent extension. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by, sponsored by, or in any way officially connected to Telegram Messenger Inc., Telegram FZ-LLC, or any of their subsidiaries or affiliates. “Telegram” and related names, marks and logos are trademarks of their respective owners and appear here only to describe what this extension works with.