diff --git a/scripts/extract-telegram-env.py b/scripts/extract-telegram-env.py
index 628e0cb..03d8775 100644
--- a/scripts/extract-telegram-env.py
+++ b/scripts/extract-telegram-env.py
@@ -33,6 +33,9 @@ def main() -> None:
             value = value.strip()
             if len(value) >= 2 and value[0] == value[-1] and value[0] in "\"'":
                 value = value[1:-1]
+            # Inline comments in .env (e.g. THREAD_ID=8  # ops)
+            if ' #' in f' {value}':
+                value = value.split('#', 1)[0].rstrip()
             value = value.replace('\n', '').replace('\r', '')
             found[key] = value
         if 'TELEGRAM_BOT_TOKEN' in found: