/usr/local/bin/telegram-export: Syntax error: word unexpected (expecting ")")

[bytes-commerce]

I've installed and followed the install instructions. I installed a fresh version of pip3 and upgraded it.

After setting up the config.ini file and editing the settings correctly (I do get the verification code and added it to the console) I get this message:

➜  ~ telegram-export --config-file ~/.config/telegram-export/config.ini --context 36741326 --format html
/usr/local/bin/telegram-export: 2: /usr/local/bin/telegram-export: Syntax error: word unexpected (expecting ")")

What is this issue and how could I solve it? What more information do you need? Running on Ubuntu 16.04.

➜  ~ python3 --version
Python 3.5.2

[expectocode]

Looks like this might be a duplicate of #70. Does it work if you add the shebang line to the top of the script, as mentioned in that issue?

[bytes-commerce]

If I do so, I do not get an error, instead it just like I'd normally pressing Enter in console, just with some delay. Also, no output files were generated.

[expectocode]

that's really strange, could you send a screenshot or something?

[bytes-commerce]

There you go, Sir.

[expectocode]

Just tried this myself, and a file was created in OutputDirectory. Have you checked there?

[bytes-commerce]

Yes.

-rw-rw-r-- 1 max max 1012 Aug  7 14:16 -1001066197625
-rw-r--r-- 1 max max  32K Aug  7 12:21 export.db
-rw-r--r-- 1 max max  14K Aug  7 12:28 exporter.session
drwxrwxr-x 3 max max 4,0K Aug  7 12:21 usermedia

What could possibly go wrong here?

[expectocode]

The file created is the top one, which is the ID of the context

[expectocode]

Formatters are not really in a good state at the moment. I'm thinking about making them a separate module

[bytes-commerce]

The content of the file is not whats in the Chat with ID specified in the terminal. I've tried different IDs.

[expectocode]

Oh, I see the problem now. --contexts specifies which contexts should be dumped, but --format tells the program to go into 'formatter mode' and just format stuff that's already been dumped.
What I think you want to do is run telegram-export --contexts=YOUR CONTEXTS to save the details,
then run telegram-export --format-contexts=YOUR CONTEXTS --format html

[bytes-commerce]

Now I do get the following output:

2018-08-07 14:51:12,328 - asyncio - ERROR - Task exception was never retrieved                                                                                                                                                                
future: <Task finished coro=<Downloader._media_consumer() done, defined at /usr/local/lib/python3.5/dist-packages/telegram_export/downloader.py:305> exception=error('required argument is not an integer',)>                                 
Traceback (most recent call last):                                                                                                                                                                                                            
  File "/usr/lib/python3.5/asyncio/tasks.py", line 239, in _step
    result = coro.send(None)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.5/dist-packages/telegram_export/downloader.py", line 311, in _media_consumer
    bar)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.5/dist-packages/telegram_export/downloader.py", line 301, in _download_media
    progress_callback=progress
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.5/dist-packages/telethon/client/downloads.py", line 231, in download_file
    input_location, offset, part_size
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.5/dist-packages/telethon/network/mtprotosender.py", line 215, in send
    message = self.state.create_message(request)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.5/dist-packages/telethon/network/mtprotostate.py", line 50, in create_message
    out=True  # Pre-convert the request into bytes
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.5/dist-packages/telethon/tl/core/tlmessage.py", line 52, in __init__
    body = GzipPacked.gzip_if_smaller(self.obj)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.5/dist-packages/telethon/tl/core/gzippacked.py", line 21, in gzip_if_smaller
    data = bytes(request)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.5/dist-packages/telethon/tl/functions/upload.py", line 113, in __bytes__
    bytes(self.location),
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.5/dist-packages/telethon/tl/types/__init__.py", line 6716, in __bytes__
    struct.pack('<q', self.volume_id),
struct.error: required argument is not an integer

However, it seems to proceed. I also can format it to HTML, but its only plain text without timestamps. How can I achieve a readable format?

[expectocode]

Telethon error there? cc @Lonami

As for the HTML, see #18. I welcome a pull request

[bytes-commerce]

I'd love to contribute, but I have no clue about Python at all, even if I'm good with HTML, CSS and JS. What are my possibilities?

Telephone Error? What do you mean with that?

[Lonami]

To help with HTML/CSS, you can make some cool template where you could display the exported data (users, message, search by different criteria, etc).

[bytes-commerce]

Is the plain template enough? I have no Idea how to implement it. I can make a wireframe with %values or such. How'd we elaborate?

[Lonami]

Let's move to #18.

[bytes-commerce]

All right. Main problem solved, thanks!

[Lonami]

Telethon error there

No, I don't think so. I wish struct errors gave more information (…such as maybe saying what the type or even the value was). Most likely we tried to download something with volume_id being None.