Telegram Restricted Media & Chat Downloader

Download photos, videos, files and chat history from Telegram Web, even from restricted channels. One click or a whole chat.

Telegram Restricted Media & Chat Downloader is a free Chrome extension that downloads photos, videos, files, voice messages and full chat history from Telegram Web, including restricted channels and groups where "Restrict saving content" is on and the save and forward buttons are hidden. Files are saved in original quality to a folder on your computer. Nothing is uploaded anywhere. Use it to: • Download a video from a restricted Telegram channel that won't let you save or forward it • Save every photo or video in a chat or channel at once (bulk download) • Back up or export a whole Telegram channel, group or chat as an offline HTML page, TXT and JSON • Keep online courses, lectures and tutorials posted in private channels for offline viewing ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ WHY THIS EXTENSION ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ • Telegram Desktop's "Export chat history" doesn't work in chats with protected content. This extension does. • No bots: you don't send links to a third-party bot, hit its size limits or wait in its queue. • No screen recording: you get the original file, not a lower-quality copy. • No account, no server, no sign-up. It runs inside your own browser on web.telegram.org. • Large videos (over 1 GB) stream straight to disk. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ WHAT YOU CAN DOWNLOAD ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ • Photos, in the largest size available • Videos, in original quality • Video circles (round video messages) • GIFs • Voice messages • Music and audio files, with their original names • Documents and any other files (PDF, ZIP, APK and so on), with their original names • Stories: a download button appears in the story viewer • Photos and videos inside link previews • Message texts: whole chats or just the messages you pick Works in channels, groups, supergroups and private chats, public or private, including restricted ones. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ THREE WAYS TO DOWNLOAD ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 1. ONE CLICK Every photo, video, circle, GIF, voice message, file and text message gets a small download button. Click it and the file is saved. The button turns blue while it works, green when done, and red if something failed (hover to see why). 2. SELECT AND DOWNLOAD • Each item also has a select button. Pick exactly what you want, then press Download. • Or tick a type on the panel (Photos, Videos, Circles, Voice, Files, Music, GIFs, Texts) to select everything of that type in the chat. • Ticked types stay live: messages that load as you scroll are selected automatically. • Your selection survives scrolling: items Telegram unloads from the screen are still downloaded. • The panel shows how many items of each type are loaded and how many are selected. • Files download oldest first, so the folder keeps the chat's order. 3. WHOLE CHAT • Downloads everything of the ticked types from the open chat, including history you haven't scrolled to. • Choose how much: the newest 50, 200 or 1000 items per type, or everything. • Live progress, and a Stop button at any time. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ EXPORT CHAT HISTORY AS HTML, TXT AND JSON ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Back up an entire channel, group or chat as a readable offline web page, plus TXT and JSON copies. The HTML page: • Looks like a chat: message cards grouped by day, with date and time • Search box that filters messages as you type • Keeps formatting: bold, italic, underline, strikethrough, code, quotes, spoilers and links • Plays downloaded photos, videos, circles, GIFs, voice messages and music inline, offline • Shows authors, view counts, "edited" marks and "Forwarded from" links • Replies link to the message they answer; albums merge into one message • Polls, link previews, light and dark theme • Opens in any browser, no internet needed The TXT file is plain text, easy to search or print. The JSON file has one message per line (date, text, author, views, forwards, replies, links, media file names), ready for spreadsheets, scripts, ChatGPT or other AI tools. Updates are incremental: run it again on the same chat and only new messages are added. A 10,000-post channel takes a few minutes the first time and a second or two after that. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ KEEP SAVED CHATS UP TO DATE ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ • Once you've downloaded a chat with "Whole chat", the extension keeps an eye on it while Telegram Web is open. • When new posts appear, a bell on the panel shows which saved chats have something new and what it is, for example "4 photos · 6 messages". • One click downloads just the new posts into the same folder. "Download all new posts" goes through every chat in a row. • It checks every 15 minutes and barely touches the network: channels you're subscribed to need no extra requests at all. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ SMART SAVING ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ • Pick any folder once. The extension creates a "Telegram Media" folder inside it, with a subfolder for every chat. • Files are named by date and message number (for example 2026-10-08_14-01_3347_photo.jpg), so they sort in chat order. Original file names are kept after the date. • Files that already exist with the same size are skipped, so large backups can be stopped and resumed without duplicates. • Stop cancels the current file and removes the unfinished part. • You can switch chats while files download; each file still lands in its own chat folder. • File names are always valid on Windows, macOS and Linux. • No folder picked? Files go to your normal Downloads folder instead (up to 1 GB per file). ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ PRIVATE BY DESIGN ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ • Everything happens inside your browser. Nothing is uploaded: no servers, no cloud. • No account, no sign-up, no login to anything but your own Telegram. • No tracking, no analytics, no ads. • No extra permissions: it runs only on web.telegram.org. • Folder access is limited to the "Telegram Media" folder it creates. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ HOW TO DOWNLOAD FROM A RESTRICTED TELEGRAM CHANNEL ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 1. Install the extension. 2. Open web.telegram.org/k in Chrome and sign in. 3. Open the channel, group or chat: download buttons appear on the media and a small panel appears at the bottom right. 4. Click "Choose folder" once and pick where to save. 5. Click a download button, tick a type and press Download, or press "Whole chat…". Designed for Telegram Web K (web.telegram.org/k), the standard web version of Telegram. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ FAQ ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ How do I download a video from a Telegram channel that has saving restricted? Open the channel in Telegram Web with this extension installed and click the download button on the video. It saves the original file even when Telegram hides the save and forward options. Can I download all videos or photos from a Telegram channel at once? Yes. Tick Videos or Photos on the panel and press "Whole chat…" to download every one, including old posts you haven't scrolled to. How do I export a Telegram chat or channel when export is disabled? Use "Whole chat…" with Texts ticked. You get an HTML page that looks like the chat, plus TXT and JSON files, all offline. Does it work on private channels and groups? Yes, for any chat your own Telegram account can open. Does it work on my phone or in the Telegram app? No. It runs in desktop Chrome on Telegram Web. Is my data sent anywhere? No. Files go from Telegram straight to your computer. The extension has no server. Can it download new posts from a channel automatically? It tells you when a saved channel or chat has new posts and downloads them in one click, into the same folder. This works while Telegram Web is open in your browser. Is the interface available in Russian? Yes. The panel follows your browser language: Russian or English. Is it free? Yes, completely. No limits, no subscription. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ PERFECT FOR ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ • Backing up a channel or group before it disappears • Saving online courses, lectures and tutorials for offline viewing • Archiving news, research and reference channels • Keeping family photos and videos from group chats • Saving music, books and documents shared in channels • Exporting chat history for notes, research or AI analysis ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Not affiliated with, endorsed by, or connected to Telegram FZ-LLC. Telegram is a trademark of its owner. Please only download content you have the right to save, and respect the creators whose work you keep.