Save it

A Telegram bot that lets you easily save and search images and videos from the internet.

Features

• Download and store images and videos from the internet
• Search images by semantic word
• Find images by image

supported services

• https://x.com/
• https://www.pinterest.com/
• https://instagram.com/
• https://bad.news/
• https://www.youtube.com/

Usage

Save

Just send a link to the bot.

demo.mp4

Search

messages:

/search cat
/search dog
/search girl
/similar photo

When /similar finds matches, the bot sends Similar photos found. with the matching photos. Multiple matches are returned as a Telegram media group.

CleanShot.0006-10-23.at.15.20.18.mp4

Known limitations

• /search can still return occasional false positives for short semantic queries such as /search girl. This is a known limitation of the current Typesense image embedding model, and save_it does not plan to solve it locally.

Self hosting

Option 1: One-Click for Zeabur

Option 2: Docker Compose

For X posts that require login or sensitive-content access, provide Cobalt cookies through a local ignored file:

{
  "twitter": [
    "auth_token=<token>; ct0=<csrf>"
  ]
}

Save the file as cobalt-cookies.json at the repository root before starting Docker Compose.

docker-compose --profile prod up -d

Build with

• Elixir
• ex_gram a powerful Elixir library for building Telegram Bots.
• cobalt a media downloader.
• ffmpeg for HLS video downloading.
• Typesense Lightning Fast, Open Source Search

License

GPL-3.0

Creator

• ThaddeusJiang