Telegram Channel Scraper with Audience Analytics

Export posts from any public Telegram channel — and get the audience numbers ad buyers check before they pay.

Most Telegram scrapers hand you a list of messages. This one also tells you what the channel is worth: how many subscribers actually see a post, how much they react, how often the channel posts and how much of its feed is already paid placements.

No login, no API key, no phone number, no bot token. It reads the public web preview Telegram publishes for every public channel at t.me/s/<channel>.

What you get

Per post

Field	Description
text	Full post text with line breaks kept
date, url, postId	When it was posted and a direct link
views	View count as Telegram shows it
reactions, reactionsTotal	Every reaction with its count — including paid ⭐ Star reactions and custom emoji
mediaType, mediaCount, photoUrls, videoUrls	Photo, video, album, document, poll, voice, sticker…
linkPreview, links, linkDomains	Links in the post and the site they point to
hashtags, mentionedChannels	#tags and the @channels the post promotes
isForwarded, forwardedFrom	Where a forwarded post came from
isSponsored	The post is marked as a paid placement (#ad, sponsored, #реклама, erid, #reklam…)
poll, document	Poll question and results; file name and size
author, isEdited, replyToPostId	Signature, edit flag and the post it replies to

Per channel — one report record

• Exact subscriber count — read from the channel page, not the rounded "10.6M" shown in the preview
• View rate (ERR) — average views as a share of subscribers. Posts younger than 48 hours are left out, because they are still collecting views
• Engagement rate — reactions per view
• Posting frequency — posts per day and per week, date of the last post, active or dormant
• Sponsored-post share — how much of the feed is paid placements
• Busiest posting hours and weekdays (UTC)
• Media mix — text vs photo vs video vs album
• Top linked websites, top hashtags and top 5 posts
• Related channels — the channels this one mentions and forwards from most. Run them next to map a whole niche
• Title, description, verified / scam / fake labels, total photos, videos, files and links

Input

{
  "channels": ["durov", "https://t.me/telegram"],
  "maxPostsPerChannel": 100,
  "sinceDate": "30 days",
  "includeChannelReport": true
}

Any form of channel reference works: durov, @durov, t.me/durov, https://t.me/s/durov or a link to one of its posts.

Filters

• sinceDate / untilDate — a date (2026-01-31) or a period (7 days, 2 weeks, 3 months)
• keywords — only return posts containing any of these words
• sponsoredOnly — only paid placements: the quickest way to see who advertises in a niche and where
• maxPostsPerChannel: 0 — channel reports only, for vetting a long list of channels quickly

Common uses

• Buying Telegram ads — compare view rate, engagement and ad load across candidate channels before you pay
• Competitor and brand monitoring — schedule a daily run with sinceDate: "1 day" and a keyword list
• Finding advertisers — sponsoredOnly across a niche's channels shows who is spending
• Niche mapping — follow relatedChannels to discover the channels around a topic
• Research and AI datasets — clean post text with dates, engagement and links

Two things this scraper is honest about

Counts are as precise as Telegram shows them. The preview page rounds views and reactions ("18.9M", "7.84K"). Those are converted to numbers, never padded with false precision. Subscriber counts are exact.

Unreadable channels say why. Groups, bots, personal accounts, channels that turned the web preview off and names that do not exist each come back as a status record explaining the reason, instead of an empty result.

Notes and limits

• Public channels only. Groups, private channels and invite-only links have no public web preview.
• Comments are not included — Telegram does not publish them in the preview.
• Telegram's own sponsored messages are not in the preview; isSponsored covers ads the channel itself posts.
• Only public data is collected. No member lists, no phone numbers, no private messages.
• Independent tool. Not affiliated with, endorsed by, or connected to Telegram.

Pricing

Pay per post returned, plus a small fee per channel report. Status records for unreadable channels are free. You can cap spend per run with Max cost per run in the Apify Console — the scraper stops cleanly when it reaches your limit.

Support

Something missing or wrong? Open an issue on the Issues tab with the input you used and the run ID.