Read-only Telegram skill for financial news and market research using tdl.
Reads Telegram channels and groups for financial news — exporting messages, listing channels, and monitoring financial news feeds. Capabilities include:
- List chats — view all your Telegram channels, groups, and contacts with filtering
- Export messages — read recent messages from any channel or group you've joined
- Time-range queries — fetch messages from specific time periods
- Channel search — find channels by name or type
This skill is read-only. It does NOT support sending messages, joining/leaving channels, or any write operations.
Requires a one-time interactive login via QR code or phone number. After login, the session persists on disk — no further authentication needed.
- "check my Telegram", "read Telegram channel", "Telegram news"
- "what's new in my Telegram channels", "export messages from"
- "financial news on Telegram", "crypto Telegram", "market news Telegram"
- Any mention of Telegram in context of financial news or market research
Works on Claude Code and other CLI-based agents. Does not work on Claude.ai — the sandbox restricts network access and binaries required by tdl.
# As a plugin (recommended — installs all skills)
npx plugins add himself65/finance-skills --plugin finance-social-readers
# Or install just this skill
npx skills add himself65/finance-skills --skill telegram-readerSee the main README for more installation options.
- tdl installed (
brew install telegram-downloaderon macOS) - One-time login:
tdl login -T qr(scan QR code with Telegram mobile app)
references/commands.md— Complete tdl command reference for reading channels and exporting messages