by the way, if you were thinking that exporting all of your telegram data was a good idea (you can do it from the telegram desktop app and it spits it out into an html browsable folder), it takes a LOT of time if you include files with it. Like, run it overnight kinda stuff. Just a heads up.
So it turns out if your account is old enough and you choose to export any media as well (images, stickers, etc), there's a good chance the exporter will just get hung on an old file it can't download and wait for you to manually skip it. So basically this needs to be babysat.
Which makes it go from "run overnight" to "this week's project"
EDIT: If you only want "my chats in case telegram gets nuked", I would suggest exporting as follows:
Account Information
Contacts List
Personal Chats
Miscellaneous data
Human readable HTML
This should actually export on it's own without babysitting in an hour or two.
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