Telegram Channel Monitor
Monitor Telegram cryptocurrency trading channels and discussion groups in real time using the Telethon client library, collecting message content, forwarded message propagation patterns, and member activity metrics to track information flow velocity and crowd sentiment.
Telegram Channel Monitor — Sentiment & NLP
Category: Sentiment & NLP | Subcategory: Social
What This Notebook Does
Telegram is one of the most active hubs for crypto discussion — major projects run announcement channels, traders share alpha in groups, and whales coordinate in private communities. This notebook:
- Connects to Telegram using the MTProto API via the
Telethonlibrary - Monitors one or more public channels/groups, fetching historical messages
- Preprocesses message text — strips formatting, links, and noise
- Scores sentiment with VADER and TextBlob
- Aggregates into hourly/daily signals for trading use
- Visualizes message volume, sentiment trends, and keyword distributions
Why Telegram for Crypto?
Unlike Twitter/X, Telegram messages are not rate-limited to short character counts — traders write longer, more nuanced posts. Channels like @BitcoinNews, @CryptoSignals, and project-specific groups often move prices before the news hits mainstream media.
What You Need
- A Telegram account (phone number)
- API credentials from https://my.telegram.org/apps (free)
- The
@usernameor invite link of the channels you want to monitor
Privacy Note: Only monitor public channels or groups you have permission to access. Telethon respects Telegram's rate limits automatically.
Section 1 — Install & Import Dependencies
Telethon is the most popular Python Telegram client. It uses MTProto (Telegram's native protocol) rather than the Bot API, which allows reading channel history without needing to be an admin.
Key distinction:
- Bot API (
python-telegram-bot) — bots only, can't read history - MTProto / Telethon — full user client, can read any public channel
!pip install telethon vaderSentiment textblob wordcloud nest_asyncio --quietimport asyncio
import nest_asyncio
import pandas as pd
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
import matplotlib.dates as mdates
import seaborn as sns
from wordcloud import WordCloud
from vaderSentiment.vaderSentiment import SentimentIntensityAnalyzer
from textblob import TextBlob
from telethon import TelegramClient
from telethon.tl.types import Channel, Chat
import re
from datetime import datetime, timezone, timedelta
# Allow asyncio to run inside Colab's existing event loop
nest_asyncio.apply()
%matplotlib inline
plt.rcParams['figure.figsize'] = (13, 5)
plt.rcParams['axes.spines.top'] = False
plt.rcParams['axes.spines.right'] = False
sns.set_palette('husl')
print('All imports successful.')All imports successful.
Section 2 — Telegram API Authentication
How to get API credentials:
- Go to https://my.telegram.org/apps
- Log in with your phone number
- Click "Create application" — fill in any app name and platform
- Copy
api_id(a number) andapi_hash(a long string)
First run: Telethon will prompt you to enter your phone number and a verification code sent to your Telegram app. After this, a session file is saved so you won't need to verify again.
Store credentials in Colab Secrets (🔑 icon) as
TG_API_IDandTG_API_HASHto avoid hard-coding them.
# ─── CONFIGURATION ─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
API_ID = 12345678 # Replace with your api_id (integer)
API_HASH = 'YOUR_API_HASH' # Replace with your api_hash (string)
SESSION_NAME = 'crypto_monitor'
# SET TO True TO TEST WITHOUT TELEGRAM CREDENTIALS
USE_DUMMY_DATA = True
# Channels to monitor
TARGET_CHANNELS = [
'CryptoNewsAlerts',
'Bitcoin',
'ethereum',
'CryptoSignals'
]
MESSAGES_LIMIT = 200
DAYS_BACK = 7
# ───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
def create_telegram_client(api_id: int, api_hash: str, session_name: str) -> TelegramClient:
client = TelegramClient(session_name, api_id, api_hash)
print(f'Telegram client created. Session: {session_name}')
return client
client = None
if not USE_DUMMY_DATA:
client = create_telegram_client(API_ID, API_HASH, SESSION_NAME)Section 2.1 — Generate Dummy Data for Testing
If you don't have API credentials yet, run this cell to create a synthetic dataset that mimics the output of the scraper. This allows you to verify the downstream analysis pipeline (Cleaning, Sentiment, Visualization).
import pandas as pd
import numpy as np
from datetime import datetime, timedelta, timezone
def generate_dummy_telegram_data(n_messages=100):
channels = ['CryptoNewsAlerts', 'Bitcoin', 'ethereum', 'CryptoSignals']
sample_texts = [
"Bitcoin is looking incredibly bullish today! to the moon!",
"Market is crashing, everyone sell now! Panic at the exchanges!",
"Ethereum 2.0 update scheduled for next week. Great news for the ecosystem.",
"Neutral price action observed in the last 4 hours for BTC.",
"Total scam alert! Avoid this new token at all costs.",
"Huge whale move detected: 50,000 BTC moved to cold storage.",
"The regulatory news from the US is causing some uncertainty in the market.",
"Just bought the dip! Long term holding strategy for #ETH."
]
data = []
now = datetime.now(timezone.utc)
for i in range(n_messages):
ch = np.random.choice(channels)
text = np.random.choice(sample_texts) + f" (msg {i})"
date = now - timedelta(hours=np.random.randint(0, 168)) # Last 7 days
data.append({
'channel': ch,
'message_id': 1000 + i,
'text': text,
'date': date,
'views': np.random.randint(100, 50000),
'forwards': np.random.randint(0, 500),
'replies': np.random.randint(0, 100),
'sender_id': str(np.random.randint(100000, 999999))
})
df = pd.DataFrame(data)
df.sort_values('date', ascending=False, inplace=True)
return df.reset_index(drop=True)
# Replace the real scraper output with dummy data
raw_df = generate_dummy_telegram_data(250)
print(f"Generated {len(raw_df)} dummy messages across {raw_df['channel'].nunique()} channels.")
display(raw_df.head())
Generated 250 dummy messages across 4 channels.
| channel | message_id | text | date | views | forwards | replies | sender_id | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 0 | CryptoSignals | 1169 | Neutral price action observed in the last 4 ho... | 2026-06-16 07:26:56.055849+00:00 | 19745 | 218 | 12 | 189458 |
| 1 | CryptoNewsAlerts | 1076 | Total scam alert! Avoid this new token at all ... | 2026-06-16 07:26:56.055849+00:00 | 17849 | 326 | 62 | 158793 |
| 2 | Bitcoin | 1047 | Total scam alert! Avoid this new token at all ... | 2026-06-16 07:26:56.055849+00:00 | 18262 | 177 | 65 | 597048 |
| 3 | CryptoNewsAlerts | 1113 | Huge whale move detected: 50,000 BTC moved to ... | 2026-06-16 03:26:56.055849+00:00 | 6616 | 353 | 61 | 535871 |
| 4 | CryptoNewsAlerts | 1221 | Just bought the dip! Long term holding strateg... | 2026-06-16 03:26:56.055849+00:00 | 1685 | 46 | 60 | 795773 |
Section 3 — Fetching Messages
Telethon's get_messages() method returns Message objects with rich metadata. We extract the fields most useful for sentiment analysis:
| Field | Description |
|---|---|
message | Raw message text |
date | UTC timestamp of the message |
views | Number of times the message was viewed |
forwards | How many times it was forwarded (virality signal) |
replies | Number of replies (engagement signal) |
sender_id | Sender ID (anonymized) |
Important: views and forwards only exist on channel posts (broadcast channels), not on group messages.
async def fetch_channel_messages(tg_client, channel, limit=200, days_back=None):
messages = []
offset_date = None
if days_back:
offset_date = datetime.now(timezone.utc) - timedelta(days=days_back)
async for msg in tg_client.iter_messages(channel, limit=limit, offset_date=offset_date):
if not msg.text: continue
messages.append({
'channel': channel,
'message_id': msg.id,
'text': msg.text,
'date': msg.date.replace(tzinfo=timezone.utc) if msg.date.tzinfo is None else msg.date,
'views': getattr(msg, 'views', 0) or 0,
'forwards': getattr(msg, 'forwards', 0) or 0,
'replies': msg.replies.replies if msg.replies else 0,
'sender_id': str(msg.sender_id)
})
return messages
async def fetch_all_channels(tg_client, channels, limit=200, days_back=None):
all_messages = []
for ch in channels:
try:
msgs = await fetch_channel_messages(tg_client, ch, limit, days_back)
all_messages.extend(msgs)
except Exception as e: print(f'Warning: {e}')
return pd.DataFrame(all_messages)
async def run_scraper():
if USE_DUMMY_DATA:
print("MODE: Using Dummy Data (Bypassing Telegram Login)")
return generate_dummy_telegram_data(250)
else:
print("MODE: Fetching from Live Telegram API")
async with client:
return await fetch_all_channels(client, TARGET_CHANNELS, MESSAGES_LIMIT, DAYS_BACK)
# Execute based on the flag
raw_df = asyncio.run(run_scraper())
display(raw_df.head(3))MODE: Using Dummy Data (Bypassing Telegram Login)
| channel | message_id | text | date | views | forwards | replies | sender_id | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 0 | Bitcoin | 1228 | Just bought the dip! Long term holding strateg... | 2026-06-16 07:26:56.109036+00:00 | 9964 | 220 | 54 | 660510 |
| 1 | Bitcoin | 1181 | The regulatory news from the US is causing som... | 2026-06-16 07:26:56.109036+00:00 | 20296 | 366 | 41 | 243465 |
| 2 | ethereum | 1067 | Ethereum 2.0 update scheduled for next week. G... | 2026-06-16 07:26:56.109036+00:00 | 8222 | 128 | 61 | 120882 |
Section 4 — Text Preprocessing
Telegram messages have unique noise patterns:
- Formatting tags:
**bold**,__italic__,[link text](url) - Mentions:
@username(often not relevant to sentiment) - Hashtags:
#BTC— keep the word, drop the# - Emojis: Carry strong sentiment signal — we keep them for VADER which handles common emojis
- Forward headers:
Forwarded from Channel Name— not original content
WORDCLOUD_STOP_WORDS = {
'crypto', 'bitcoin', 'btc', 'eth', 'telegram', 'channel', 'forwarded',
'market', 'price', 'just', 'will', 'new', 'one', 'get', 'like', 'now',
'today', 'coin', 'tokens', 'trading', 'trade', 'buy', 'sell', 'good'
}
def clean_telegram_text(text: str) -> str:
"""
Clean raw Telegram message text for sentiment analysis.
Removes URLs, formatting markdown, forward headers, and extra whitespace.
Preserves emojis (VADER handles common ones) and hashtag words.
Parameters
----------
text : Raw Telegram message string
Returns
-------
Cleaned text string
"""
if not isinstance(text, str):
return ''
text = re.sub(r'Forwarded from.*?\n', '', text) # remove forward headers
text = re.sub(r'http\S+|www\.\S+|t\.me/\S+', '', text) # remove URLs & t.me links
text = re.sub(r'@\w+', '', text) # remove @mentions
text = re.sub(r'#(\w+)', r'\1', text) # keep hashtag words
text = re.sub(r'[*_`~]', '', text) # remove markdown
text = re.sub(r'\[([^\]]+)\]\([^)]+\)', r'\1', text) # inline links
text = re.sub(r'\s+', ' ', text)
return text.strip()
def preprocess_telegram_df(df: pd.DataFrame) -> pd.DataFrame:
"""
Apply preprocessing to the raw Telegram messages DataFrame.
Adds 'clean_text' and 'text_length' columns.
Drops messages that become empty after cleaning.
Parameters
----------
df : Raw DataFrame from fetch_all_channels()
Returns
-------
Preprocessed DataFrame
"""
df = df.copy()
df['clean_text'] = df['text'].apply(clean_telegram_text)
df['text_length'] = df['clean_text'].apply(len)
df = df[df['text_length'] > 5].reset_index(drop=True)
print(f'After cleaning: {len(df)} messages remain (avg {df["text_length"].mean():.0f} chars)')
return df
processed_df = preprocess_telegram_df(raw_df)
processed_df[['channel', 'date', 'clean_text', 'views']].head(4)After cleaning: 250 messages remain (avg 71 chars)
| channel | date | clean_text | views | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 0 | Bitcoin | 2026-06-16 07:26:56.109036+00:00 | Just bought the dip! Long term holding strateg... | 9964 |
| 1 | Bitcoin | 2026-06-16 07:26:56.109036+00:00 | The regulatory news from the US is causing som... | 20296 |
| 2 | ethereum | 2026-06-16 07:26:56.109036+00:00 | Ethereum 2.0 update scheduled for next week. G... | 8222 |
| 3 | ethereum | 2026-06-16 06:26:56.109036+00:00 | Ethereum 2.0 update scheduled for next week. G... | 44561 |
Section 5 — Sentiment Analysis
We use the same dual-model approach as in the Reddit scraper:
- VADER: Best for short, emoji-rich Telegram messages
- TextBlob: Provides subjectivity score — useful for filtering out objective news announcements from opinion-heavy posts
Engagement Weighting
A message with 50,000 views has far more market impact than one with 10. We use views + forwards as a weight when aggregating to daily signals. This gives viral messages proportionally more influence on the final sentiment score.
vader = SentimentIntensityAnalyzer()
def score_message_sentiment(text: str) -> dict:
"""
Compute VADER and TextBlob sentiment scores for a single message.
Parameters
----------
text : Cleaned message text
Returns
-------
Dictionary with vader_compound, tb_polarity, tb_subjectivity
"""
if not text or len(text) < 3:
return {'vader_compound': 0.0, 'tb_polarity': 0.0, 'tb_subjectivity': 0.0}
vs = vader.polarity_scores(text)
blob = TextBlob(text)
return {
'vader_compound': vs['compound'],
'vader_pos': vs['pos'],
'vader_neg': vs['neg'],
'tb_polarity': blob.sentiment.polarity,
'tb_subjectivity': blob.sentiment.subjectivity
}
def label_sentiment(compound: float) -> str:
if compound >= 0.05: return 'POSITIVE'
if compound <= -0.05: return 'NEGATIVE'
return 'NEUTRAL'
def run_sentiment_pipeline(df: pd.DataFrame) -> pd.DataFrame:
"""
Apply sentiment scoring to all messages in the DataFrame.
Adds sentiment score columns and a categorical label.
Computes an engagement weight = views + (forwards * 3) to
up-weight forwarded messages as they have wider reach.
Parameters
----------
df : Preprocessed DataFrame with 'clean_text' column
Returns
-------
DataFrame with sentiment columns added
"""
df = df.copy()
scores = df['clean_text'].apply(score_message_sentiment)
df = pd.concat([df, pd.DataFrame(list(scores))], axis=1)
df['sentiment_label'] = df['vader_compound'].apply(label_sentiment)
df['engagement_weight'] = df['views'] + (df['forwards'] * 3)
df['engagement_weight'] = df['engagement_weight'].clip(lower=1)
dist = df['sentiment_label'].value_counts()
print('Sentiment distribution:')
for label, count in dist.items():
print(f' {label:10s}: {count:4d} ({count/len(df)*100:.1f}%)')
return df
sentiment_df = run_sentiment_pipeline(processed_df)
sentiment_df[['channel', 'clean_text', 'vader_compound', 'tb_subjectivity', 'sentiment_label', 'views']].head(5)Sentiment distribution: NEGATIVE : 102 (40.8%) NEUTRAL : 94 (37.6%) POSITIVE : 54 (21.6%)
| channel | clean_text | vader_compound | tb_subjectivity | sentiment_label | views | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 0 | Bitcoin | Just bought the dip! Long term holding strateg... | 0.0000 | 0.400 | NEUTRAL | 9964 |
| 1 | Bitcoin | The regulatory news from the US is causing som... | -0.3400 | 0.000 | NEGATIVE | 20296 |
| 2 | ethereum | Ethereum 2.0 update scheduled for next week. G... | 0.6249 | 0.375 | POSITIVE | 8222 |
| 3 | ethereum | Ethereum 2.0 update scheduled for next week. G... | 0.6249 | 0.375 | POSITIVE | 44561 |
| 4 | CryptoSignals | Bitcoin is looking incredibly bullish today! t... | 0.0000 | 0.900 | NEUTRAL | 29130 |
Section 6 — Visualization
Four charts to understand the Telegram sentiment landscape:
- Label distribution per channel
- Sentiment over time (hourly rolling average)
- Message volume over time
- Word clouds for positive vs negative messages
def plot_channel_sentiment_breakdown(df: pd.DataFrame) -> None:
"""
Stacked bar chart: sentiment label proportions per channel.
Parameters
----------
df : DataFrame with 'channel' and 'sentiment_label' columns
"""
pivot = df.groupby(['channel', 'sentiment_label']).size().unstack(fill_value=0)
for col in ['POSITIVE', 'NEUTRAL', 'NEGATIVE']:
if col not in pivot.columns:
pivot[col] = 0
pivot_pct = pivot[['POSITIVE', 'NEUTRAL', 'NEGATIVE']].div(pivot.sum(axis=1), axis=0) * 100
ax = pivot_pct.plot(kind='bar', stacked=True,
color=['#2ecc71', '#95a5a6', '#e74c3c'],
figsize=(12, 5), edgecolor='white')
ax.set_title('Sentiment Breakdown by Telegram Channel', fontsize=13, fontweight='bold')
ax.set_ylabel('% of Messages')
ax.set_xlabel('')
ax.tick_params(axis='x', rotation=30)
ax.legend(loc='upper right')
plt.tight_layout()
plt.show()
plot_channel_sentiment_breakdown(sentiment_df)def plot_sentiment_over_time(df: pd.DataFrame, resample_freq: str = '4H') -> None:
"""
Line chart of engagement-weighted sentiment resampled over time.
Parameters
----------
df : DataFrame with 'date', 'vader_compound', 'engagement_weight'
resample_freq : Pandas offset alias for resampling (default '4H' = 4-hour buckets)
"""
df = df.copy()
df = df.set_index('date').sort_index()
if df.index.tz is None:
df.index = df.index.tz_localize('UTC')
resampled = df['vader_compound'].resample(resample_freq).mean()
volume = df['message_id'].resample(resample_freq).count()
fig, (ax1, ax2) = plt.subplots(2, 1, figsize=(14, 7), sharex=True)
ax1.axhline(0, color='gray', linestyle='--', linewidth=1, alpha=0.6)
ax1.fill_between(resampled.index, resampled, 0,
where=resampled >= 0, alpha=0.3, color='#2ecc71')
ax1.fill_between(resampled.index, resampled, 0,
where=resampled < 0, alpha=0.3, color='#e74c3c')
ax1.plot(resampled.index, resampled, color='steelblue', linewidth=2)
ax1.set_ylabel('Avg VADER Compound')
ax1.set_title(f'Telegram Sentiment Signal ({resample_freq} buckets)', fontsize=13, fontweight='bold')
ax1.set_ylim(-1, 1)
ax2.bar(volume.index, volume.values, color='steelblue', alpha=0.6, width=pd.Timedelta(resample_freq) * 0.8)
ax2.set_ylabel('Message Count')
ax2.set_xlabel('Time (UTC)')
ax2.xaxis.set_major_formatter(mdates.DateFormatter('%b %d %H:%M'))
plt.xticks(rotation=30)
plt.tight_layout()
plt.show()
plot_sentiment_over_time(sentiment_df)/tmp/ipykernel_2763/253673682.py:15: FutureWarning: 'H' is deprecated and will be removed in a future version, please use 'h' instead. resampled = df['vader_compound'].resample(resample_freq).mean() /tmp/ipykernel_2763/253673682.py:16: FutureWarning: 'H' is deprecated and will be removed in a future version, please use 'h' instead. volume = df['message_id'].resample(resample_freq).count() /tmp/ipykernel_2763/253673682.py:30: FutureWarning: 'H' is deprecated and will be removed in a future version. Please use 'h' instead of 'H'. ax2.bar(volume.index, volume.values, color='steelblue', alpha=0.6, width=pd.Timedelta(resample_freq) * 0.8)
def generate_telegram_wordclouds(df: pd.DataFrame) -> None:
"""
Side-by-side word clouds for positive and negative Telegram messages.
Parameters
----------
df : DataFrame with 'sentiment_label' and 'clean_text' columns
"""
pos_text = ' '.join(df[df['sentiment_label'] == 'POSITIVE']['clean_text'])
neg_text = ' '.join(df[df['sentiment_label'] == 'NEGATIVE']['clean_text'])
fig, axes = plt.subplots(1, 2, figsize=(16, 6))
for ax, text, title, bg, cmap in [
(axes[0], pos_text, 'Bullish Messages — Top Words', '#f0fff0', 'Greens'),
(axes[1], neg_text, 'Bearish Messages — Top Words', '#fff0f0', 'Reds')
]:
if text.strip():
wc = WordCloud(width=700, height=400, background_color=bg,
colormap=cmap, stopwords=WORDCLOUD_STOP_WORDS,
max_words=80, collocations=False).generate(text)
ax.imshow(wc, interpolation='bilinear')
else:
ax.text(0.5, 0.5, 'No data', ha='center', va='center', transform=ax.transAxes)
ax.set_title(title, fontsize=12, fontweight='bold')
ax.axis('off')
plt.tight_layout()
plt.show()
generate_telegram_wordclouds(sentiment_df)Section 7 — Hourly Sentiment Signal
Unlike Reddit (daily posts), Telegram channels post many times per hour. We aggregate into hourly signals for more granular intraday use.
The output DataFrame has one row per hour and can be directly merged with OHLCV data on the hour timestamp for backtesting.
def compute_hourly_signal(df: pd.DataFrame) -> pd.DataFrame:
"""
Aggregate message sentiment into an hourly signal DataFrame.
Uses engagement_weight (views + 3*forwards) to compute a
weighted average sentiment score per hour.
Parameters
----------
df : Sentiment-scored DataFrame with 'date' and 'engagement_weight'
Returns
-------
Hourly DataFrame with columns: hour, mean_sentiment, weighted_sentiment,
message_count, total_engagement
"""
df = df.copy()
df['hour'] = pd.to_datetime(df['date']).dt.floor('H')
hourly = df.groupby('hour').apply(
lambda g: pd.Series({
'mean_sentiment': g['vader_compound'].mean(),
'weighted_sentiment': (g['vader_compound'] * g['engagement_weight']).sum()
/ g['engagement_weight'].sum(),
'message_count': len(g),
'total_views': g['views'].sum(),
'total_forwards': g['forwards'].sum(),
'pct_positive': (g['sentiment_label'] == 'POSITIVE').mean() * 100,
'pct_negative': (g['sentiment_label'] == 'NEGATIVE').mean() * 100
})
).reset_index()
print(f'Hourly signal: {len(hourly)} hours of data')
return hourly
hourly_signal = compute_hourly_signal(sentiment_df)
hourly_signal.tail(5)Hourly signal: 131 hours of data
/tmp/ipykernel_2763/2059257047.py:18: FutureWarning: 'H' is deprecated and will be removed in a future version, please use 'h' instead.
df['hour'] = pd.to_datetime(df['date']).dt.floor('H')
/tmp/ipykernel_2763/2059257047.py:20: DeprecationWarning: DataFrameGroupBy.apply operated on the grouping columns. This behavior is deprecated, and in a future version of pandas the grouping columns will be excluded from the operation. Either pass `include_groups=False` to exclude the groupings or explicitly select the grouping columns after groupby to silence this warning.
hourly = df.groupby('hour').apply(
| hour | mean_sentiment | weighted_sentiment | message_count | total_views | total_forwards | pct_positive | pct_negative | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 126 | 2026-06-16 03:00:00+00:00 | -0.645200 | -0.645200 | 1.0 | 12901.0 | 482.0 | 0.000000 | 100.000000 |
| 127 | 2026-06-16 04:00:00+00:00 | 0.000000 | 0.000000 | 2.0 | 23609.0 | 760.0 | 0.000000 | 0.000000 |
| 128 | 2026-06-16 05:00:00+00:00 | -0.298600 | -0.286110 | 2.0 | 94033.0 | 293.0 | 0.000000 | 50.000000 |
| 129 | 2026-06-16 06:00:00+00:00 | 0.314367 | 0.367541 | 3.0 | 89830.0 | 570.0 | 66.666667 | 0.000000 |
| 130 | 2026-06-16 07:00:00+00:00 | 0.094967 | -0.046674 | 3.0 | 38482.0 | 714.0 | 33.333333 | 33.333333 |
Section 8 — Export
Two exports:
telegram_messages_sentiment.csv— full message-level datatelegram_hourly_signal.csv— aggregated hourly signal ready for strategy use
def export_telegram_results(
messages_df: pd.DataFrame,
hourly_df: pd.DataFrame,
messages_file: str = 'telegram_messages_sentiment.csv',
hourly_file: str = 'telegram_hourly_signal.csv'
) -> None:
"""
Export message-level and hourly signal DataFrames to CSV.
Parameters
----------
messages_df : Full messages DataFrame with sentiment scores
hourly_df : Hourly aggregated signal DataFrame
messages_file : Output filename for message data
hourly_file : Output filename for hourly signal
"""
msg_cols = ['channel', 'message_id', 'date', 'clean_text',
'vader_compound', 'vader_pos', 'vader_neg',
'tb_polarity', 'tb_subjectivity',
'sentiment_label', 'views', 'forwards', 'engagement_weight']
messages_df[msg_cols].to_csv(messages_file, index=False)
print(f'Messages saved: {messages_file} ({len(messages_df)} rows)')
hourly_df.to_csv(hourly_file, index=False)
print(f'Hourly signal: {hourly_file} ({len(hourly_df)} rows)')
export_telegram_results(sentiment_df, hourly_signal)Messages saved: telegram_messages_sentiment.csv (250 rows) Hourly signal: telegram_hourly_signal.csv (131 rows)
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Section 9 — Dummy Data Test Run
Now that all functions are defined, we run the dummy data through the full pipeline to verify implementation.
# Final Verification: Run dummy data through the entire pipeline now that all functions are defined
try:
# 1. Preprocess
processed_dummy_df = preprocess_telegram_df(raw_df)
# 2. Run sentiment analysis
sentiment_dummy_df = run_sentiment_pipeline(processed_dummy_df)
# 3. Generate hourly signals
hourly_dummy_signal = compute_hourly_signal(sentiment_dummy_df)
# 4. Test visualization functions
plot_channel_sentiment_breakdown(sentiment_dummy_df)
plot_sentiment_over_time(sentiment_dummy_df)
generate_telegram_wordclouds(sentiment_dummy_df)
print("\n--- Verification Results ---")
display(sentiment_dummy_df[['channel', 'clean_text', 'sentiment_label', 'engagement_weight']].head())
except NameError as e:
print(f"Error: {e}. Please ensure you have executed all cells above this one first.")After cleaning: 250 messages remain (avg 71 chars) Sentiment distribution: NEGATIVE : 102 (40.8%) NEUTRAL : 94 (37.6%) POSITIVE : 54 (21.6%)
/tmp/ipykernel_2763/2059257047.py:18: FutureWarning: 'H' is deprecated and will be removed in a future version, please use 'h' instead.
df['hour'] = pd.to_datetime(df['date']).dt.floor('H')
/tmp/ipykernel_2763/2059257047.py:20: DeprecationWarning: DataFrameGroupBy.apply operated on the grouping columns. This behavior is deprecated, and in a future version of pandas the grouping columns will be excluded from the operation. Either pass `include_groups=False` to exclude the groupings or explicitly select the grouping columns after groupby to silence this warning.
hourly = df.groupby('hour').apply(
Hourly signal: 131 hours of data
/tmp/ipykernel_2763/253673682.py:15: FutureWarning: 'H' is deprecated and will be removed in a future version, please use 'h' instead. resampled = df['vader_compound'].resample(resample_freq).mean() /tmp/ipykernel_2763/253673682.py:16: FutureWarning: 'H' is deprecated and will be removed in a future version, please use 'h' instead. volume = df['message_id'].resample(resample_freq).count() /tmp/ipykernel_2763/253673682.py:30: FutureWarning: 'H' is deprecated and will be removed in a future version. Please use 'h' instead of 'H'. ax2.bar(volume.index, volume.values, color='steelblue', alpha=0.6, width=pd.Timedelta(resample_freq) * 0.8)
--- Verification Results ---
| channel | clean_text | sentiment_label | engagement_weight | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 0 | Bitcoin | Just bought the dip! Long term holding strateg... | NEUTRAL | 10624 |
| 1 | Bitcoin | The regulatory news from the US is causing som... | NEGATIVE | 21394 |
| 2 | ethereum | Ethereum 2.0 update scheduled for next week. G... | POSITIVE | 8606 |
| 3 | ethereum | Ethereum 2.0 update scheduled for next week. G... | POSITIVE | 45338 |
| 4 | CryptoSignals | Bitcoin is looking incredibly bullish today! t... | NEUTRAL | 29505 |
Section 10 — Conclusion
In this notebook, we have successfully implemented a robust pipeline for monitoring Telegram sentiment:
- Dual-Mode Data Acquisition: Built a scraper that can switch between live Telegram API data and synthetic dummy data for testing purposes.
- Specialized Preprocessing: Implemented cleaning logic tailored for Telegram's specific noise (markdown, t.me links, forward headers).
- Advanced Sentiment Scoring: Leveraged VADER and TextBlob to capture both emotional intensity and subjectivity.
- Engagement Weighting: Integrated
viewsandforwardsto ensure high-impact messages carry more weight in our final signals. - Intraday Signal Generation: Aggregated raw message data into hourly buckets, providing a clean time-series ready for quantitative trading analysis.