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name: searching-message-history description: Search Telegram conversation history and stored links. Use when finding past messages, what someone said, or links shared in chats.

Message History

Location: ~/.valor/telegram_history.db (SQLite)

Tables

messages: id, chat_id, message_id, sender, content, timestamp, message_type

links: id, url, final_url, title, description, domain, sender, chat_id, message_id, timestamp, tags, notes, status, ai_summary

Query Examples

Copy# List all chats
sqlite3 ~/.valor/telegram_history.db "SELECT chat_id, COUNT(*) as count FROM messages GROUP BY chat_id ORDER BY count DESC"

# Recent messages (all chats)
sqlite3 ~/.valor/telegram_history.db "SELECT sender, substr(content, 1, 200), timestamp FROM messages ORDER BY timestamp DESC LIMIT 10"

# Messages from specific chat
sqlite3 ~/.valor/telegram_history.db "SELECT sender, content, timestamp FROM messages WHERE chat_id = '-5240384240' ORDER BY timestamp DESC LIMIT 10"

# Messages from Valor
sqlite3 ~/.valor/telegram_history.db "SELECT chat_id, substr(content, 1, 300), timestamp FROM messages WHERE sender='Valor' ORDER BY timestamp DESC LIMIT 10"

# Search by keyword
sqlite3 ~/.valor/telegram_history.db "SELECT sender, content, timestamp FROM messages WHERE content LIKE '%keyword%' ORDER BY timestamp DESC LIMIT 10"

# Search in specific chat
sqlite3 ~/.valor/telegram_history.db "SELECT sender, content, timestamp FROM messages WHERE chat_id = '-5240384240' AND content LIKE '%keyword%' ORDER BY timestamp DESC"

Links

Copy# Recent links
sqlite3 ~/.valor/telegram_history.db "SELECT url, title, sender, chat_id, timestamp FROM links ORDER BY timestamp DESC LIMIT 10"

# Links from specific chat
sqlite3 ~/.valor/telegram_history.db "SELECT url, title, sender FROM links WHERE chat_id = '-5240384240' ORDER BY timestamp DESC"

# Search links
sqlite3 ~/.valor/telegram_history.db "SELECT url, title, ai_summary FROM links WHERE title LIKE '%keyword%' OR ai_summary LIKE '%keyword%'"

Note

The file /Users/valorengels/src/ai/data/telegram_history.db is NOT used. Always use ~/.valor/telegram_history.db.