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    iyear/tdl

    📥 A Telegram toolkit written in Golang

    cli
    bash
    download
    downloader
    telegram
    telegram-api
    Go
    AGPL-3.0
    8.2K stars
    834 forks
    8.2K GitHub watchers
    Updated Nov 5, 2026
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    Where it stands

    Rank, growth pace and release cadence relative to everything GStars tracks.

    1 release in the last 90 days, the latest 73 days ago, with 20 contributors on GitHub.

    Peaked at #31 in the weekly ranking the week of Jan 18, its best in the past year.

    Use Cases & Benefits

    • Provides a Telegram toolkit in Go for downloading, uploading, forwarding, and exporting messages and files.
    • Offers faster performance and lower resource usage than official Telegram clients with full bandwidth utilization.
    • Use for automating file downloads from protected Telegram chats at maximum proxy speed.
    • Use for forwarding messages with automatic fallback and routing in complex Telegram bot workflows.
    • Use for exporting Telegram chat data, members, or subscribers to JSON for analysis or backup.

    Should you depend on it?

    License terms, project hygiene and risks, from GitHub metadata and GStars' snapshots.

    License

    AGPL 3.0

    Network copyleft: like the GPL, and also triggered by offering the software over a network.

    Community files

    • README: present

    Watch-outs

    • AGPL-style copyleft also applies when the software is offered over a network.

    General guidance from repository metadata, not legal advice. How we score

    From the README

    📥 Telegram Downloader, but more than a downloader

    It reaches my proxy's speed limit, and the speed depends on whether you are a premium

    Excerpt from the iyear/tdl README on GitHub (AGPL-3.0 license). © its authors.Read the full README on GitHub

    Daily snapshots

    Stars gained per day, and how forks and open issues moved, from GStars' daily snapshots

    Forks

    834+57

    Open issues

    214+5

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