Telegram Similar Channels Finder

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Give it one public Telegram channel and get back the channels Telegram itself considers similar, based on subscriber overlap. This is the same list Telegram shows in the "Similar channels" tab of a channel profile, without the non-Premium limit.

It solves the hardest step of Telegram research: finding which channels exist in a niche. Most Telegram scrapers need a list of channels before they can do anything. This Actor builds that list from a single seed.

What it's for

• Market research: map the channel landscape of a niche from one known channel.
• Competitor mapping: see which channels share an audience with yours or a competitor's.
• Ad placement planning: build a shortlist of channels for sponsored posts and cross-promotion, then check their size and activity.
• Content research: find sources to follow and analyse in a new topic.

Run it again on the channels it returns to go one level deeper and grow the list.

🛡️ Data & compliance

• Channel data only. The output describes channels: title, username, subscriber count, creation date. It contains no information about users, members, or subscribers.
• Public channels only. Private channels, groups, and user accounts are not supported. The input is checked, and a non-channel username finishes without a charge.
• Official Telegram API. Data comes from Telegram's own recommendations method. No HTML scraping, no data Telegram doesn't show publicly in the app.
• Nothing to set up. You don't need a Telegram account, login, or API keys.

📥 Input

Field	Type	Description	Required	Default
username	String	One public channel: crypto, @crypto, or https://t.me/crypto	Yes	CryptoRankNews

One channel per run. To expand several seeds, start one run per channel (for example, from Zapier, Make, or the Apify API).

📤 Output

One dataset row per run:

Field	Type	Description
username	String	The seed channel you provided
recommended_channels	Array	Similar channels (see below)
error	String	Error message, null on success

Each item in recommended_channels:

Field	Type	Description
id	String	Channel ID
username	String	Channel username
title	String	Channel title
participants_count	Number	Subscriber count
creationDate	String	Channel creation date

Example Result

{"username":"crypto","error":null,"recommended_channels":[{"creationDate":"2018-01-10T16:28:31Z","id":"1193342710","participants_count":235546,"title":"Bitcoin","username":"bitcoin"},{"creationDate":"2021-07-23T19:19:48Z","id":"1556054753","participants_count":555536,"title":"Watcher Guru","username":"WatcherGuru"},{"creationDate":"2023-08-01T20:30:32Z","id":"1909196609","participants_count":10882,"title":"Crypto Price","username":"cryptoprice"},{"creationDate":"2022-05-22T06:44:27Z","id":"1685592361","participants_count":100448,"title":"Crypto News","username":"news_crypto"},{"creationDate":"2016-08-25T20:43:51Z","id":"1072723547","participants_count":431549,"title":"Cointelegraph","username":"cointelegraph"},{"creationDate":"2019-04-08T12:13:54Z","id":"1349397698","participants_count":491131,"title":"Technical CRYPTO Analyst","username":"TechCryptoAnalyst"},{"creationDate":"2020-07-13T18:44:22Z","id":"1291335731","participants_count":490878,"title":"Binance Spot \u0026 FutuRes Signals","username":"next10xgem1"},{"creationDate":"2022-12-16T16:49:23Z","id":"1812984829","participants_count":11452,"title":"hypersonic | Crypto \u0026 NFT News","username":"hs_cryptonews"},{"creationDate":"2022-11-28T20:42:24Z","id":"1769001896","participants_count":1057310,"title":"Coingraph | News","username":"CoingraphNews"},{"creationDate":"2020-07-26T17:24:04Z","id":"1488075213","participants_count":54330,"title":"CRYPTO NEWS","username":"cryptocurrency_media"},{"creationDate":"2018-08-29T07:35:48Z","id":"1151808092","participants_count":453596,"title":"The Crypto Express","username":"thecryptoexpress"},{"creationDate":"2022-09-01T22:21:48Z","id":"1462219382","participants_count":132265,"title":"Crypto Headlines","username":"crypto_hd"},{"creationDate":"2019-05-03T20:32:57Z","id":"1260161873","participants_count":211539,"title":"Binance Futures Liquidations","username":"BinanceLiquidations"},{"creationDate":"2024-07-03T16:28:36Z","id":"2173900823","participants_count":11048874,"title":"DOGS Community","username":"dogs"},{"creationDate":"2024-01-17T08:17:29Z","id":"2039438207","participants_count":24998536,"title":"Blum: All Crypto – One App","username":"blumcrypto"},{"creationDate":"2024-03-05T11:33:40Z","id":"2075341442","participants_count":36315964,"title":"Hamster Kombat Announcement","username":"hamster_kombat"},{"creationDate":"2023-11-13T18:31:40Z","id":"2007141958","participants_count":13358085,"title":"Notcoin Community","username":"notcoin"},{"creationDate":"2022-02-25T09:45:28Z","id":"1624773544","participants_count":4801324,"title":"Wallet News","username":"cryptowallet_news_en"},{"creationDate":"2017-09-17T17:24:33Z","id":"1146915409","participants_count":5193362,"title":"Binance Announcements","username":"binance_announcements"},{"creationDate":"2024-05-29T19:44:52Z","id":"2242113800","participants_count":64711,"title":"Bitcoin Price","username":"bitcoin_price"},{"creationDate":"2024-07-12T03:36:50Z","id":"2180851629","participants_count":13449094,"title":"CATS Community","username":"Cats_housewtf"},{"creationDate":"2024-06-05T16:51:52Z","id":"2228250661","participants_count":669,"title":"@callers","username":"callers"},{"creationDate":"2023-08-31T10:34:06Z","id":"1968998756","participants_count":1299,"title":"CryptoVantage HQ","username":"CryptoVantage_HQ"},{"creationDate":"2017-12-10T07:28:21Z","id":"1312345502","participants_count":529598,"title":"Crypto VIP Signal","username":"CryptoVIPsignalTA"},{"creationDate":"2024-03-03T18:32:51Z","id":"2006131201","participants_count":129869,"title":"BRICS News","username":"bricsnews"},{"creationDate":"2023-10-28T01:37:25Z","id":"2058498338","participants_count":6239,"title":"OGU Exchange","username":"conversion"},{"creationDate":"2021-11-17T19:51:42Z","id":"1625691880","participants_count":300231,"title":"Crypto Pump Club 📈","username":"crypto_pumps_p"},{"creationDate":"2019-08-26T09:18:45Z","id":"1343715577","participants_count":62602,"title":"CryptoQuant","username":"cryptoquant_official"},{"creationDate":"2019-07-10T22:19:50Z","id":"1387716380","participants_count":13042,"title":"ETH Price","username":"ethprices"},{"creationDate":"2021-12-15T16:29:18Z","id":"1725586424","participants_count":29436,"title":"TON Price","username":"tonprices"}]}

FAQ

How many channels does one run return?

As many as Telegram recommends for that channel. The example above returned 30. Small or new channels may get fewer recommendations.

Is this the same as the "Similar channels" tab in Telegram?

Yes, the data comes from the same Telegram recommendation method. The difference: you get the full list without Telegram Premium, with subscriber counts and creation dates, as structured data.

Can I use a group or a user account as the seed?

No, only public channels. A group or user username finishes the run without a charge.

How do I go deeper than one level?

Run the Actor again on channels from the results. Two or three levels usually map a whole niche.

Can I start from several seed channels?

One channel per run. Start one run per seed from the Apify API, Make, or Zapier, then merge the lists.

🔁 Run it on a schedule

Apify Schedules run this Actor for you: Console → Schedules → Create new → add this Actor or one of your saved tasks → set how often it runs.

Monthly works for competitor tracking: Telegram's recommendations change as audiences move. Schedule a saved task for each seed channel and send the results to a sheet to see which new channels appear in your niche.

🔗 Next step: analyse the channels you found

Pass the usernames from recommended_channels to Telegram Channel Post & Media Scraper to get each channel's recent posts, views, and reactions. Use them to decide which channels are active and worth a placement.

Typical pipeline: seed channel → Similar Channels Finder → Channel Post & Media Scraper → shortlist by views and engagement.

For ready-made Telegram research workflows, see akula.marketing.

🔌 Automate with Zapier & Make

No code needed — trigger this Actor from your existing tools.

• Zapier: search for the "Apify" app → action Run Actor → select akula.marketing/telegram-get-recommended-channels → map a trigger field (e.g. a competitor channel you're tracking) to username → send the resulting channel list to Sheets or a Notion database. Docs
• Make: add the Apify → Run an Actor module, select this Actor, set "Run synchronously" to Yes, then chain a Get Dataset Items module to pull results into your scenario. Docs

Example: weekly scheduled scenario runs this Actor against your top 3 competitor channels → new similar channels get appended to a running competitive-research sheet.

🤖 Use with AI agents (MCP)

This Actor works as a tool in Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, and other MCP clients through the Apify MCP server. Add this server URL to your client:

https://mcp.apify.com?tools=akula.marketing/telegram-get-recommended-channels

The first time you connect, the client asks you to sign in to Apify. Runs are billed to your Apify account, the same as runs from the Console.

Then ask in plain language, for example: "Find Telegram channels similar to @CryptoRankNews and sort them by subscriber count". The agent reads the input schema, fills in the fields, and gets the results back as structured data.

🧩 Related Actors

Next step	Actor
Get the posts, views, and reactions of the channels you found	Telegram Channel Post & Media Scraper
Check the title, description, and subscriber count of a whole channel list	Telegram Username Checker
Read the discussions in those channels' comments	Telegram Channel Message & Comment Scraper

Support

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