How to Convert Telegram Stickers to Signal

As Telegram is one of the most used messengers in Iran, it has a large pool of stickers. I don’t want my contacts to miss out on them, so I always try to bring good stickers to Signal. Luckily there is an awesome free (libre) app named sticker-convert that takes care of this.

I use its command line version like this:

./sticker-convert-x86_64.AppImage --download-telegram https://t.me/addstickers/GreatMindsColor --author 'None' --title 'None' --export-signal --signal-uuid UUID --signal-password 'PASSWORD' --telegram-userid USER_ID --telegram-token 'TELEGRAM_TOKEN'

Now there is good documentation on how you can find and generate the tokens for both Signal and Telegram. But for better security, I enter fake Signal credentials and provide only a bot token to the script. Obviously the script throws out an error, but the APNG output is there. So you can easily use Signal Desktop (File menu -> Create/upload sticker pack), import the APNG files into it, and upload them. The only downside is that the script takes care of emojis automatically, but you have to enter them manually if you use Signal Desktop for importing APNG files.

After you’re done converting the stickers, please make sure you share them on https://signalstickers.org as well with good tags, so everyone can easily find and use them.