From bc84ff1fc162d667c97cd7988e8ad5d7febc7951 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Fabian Schlenz Date: Tue, 14 Feb 2017 06:49:32 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] Updated README.md to mention the current rate limits. --- README.md | 11 +++++------ 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index 771a5f7..fd622fc 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -22,12 +22,11 @@ You can find the whole app packed into one fat jar file under containing your chats. This feature is still in the works. ## Limitations -This tool relies on Telegram's API. Apparently they don't like people who -download lots of media files, so this app gets blocked after about 2000 -downloaded media files. This is nothing bad; the app detects this and waits -the necessary amount of time as dictated by Telegram. Since this delay can -be quite large (I've seen 50 minutes), downloading lots and lots of media -can take some time. +This tool relies on Telegram's API. They started rate limiting the calls +made by this tool some time ago. As of february 2017, downloading messages +is limited to 400 messages every 30 seconds, resulting in 48,000 messages +per hour. Media download is not throttled right now, so it should be a lot +quicker. But since this tool is designed to be able to continue it's work at any time, you can just abort the download and continue it later - that way,