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README.md: Further extensions.

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only.
* Incremental backups - if you run the tool at a later time, it will only
download new messages / media.
* You will be able to use an HTML exporter to create static HTML files
containing your chats. This feature is still in the works.
## Limitations
This tool relies on Telegram's API. They started rate limiting the calls
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call it again with `--account <phone>` to use this account and download all
it's history. If you have just one account, you can omit this parameter.
Use `--with-supergroups` and / or `--with-channels` to also download all
messages from the supergroups / channels you have joined that have been
active in the last time.
After making a backup, call it again with `--export html` to create a few
more-or-less nice to look at HTML files containing all your chats. They will
be created in the subfolder `files` of your backup. You can just open the
file index.html in your browser to look at the files.
## Donations
I've put quite some time into this tool. If you want to donate a small
amount, you can send it via Bitcoin to *1CofYzS88iEngxMu4NqQeohWDBUHv9CNDJ* or via PayPal to