Telegram Channel Scraper

Scrape posts from any public Telegram channel: full text, date, views, reactions, photos, videos, files, links, hashtags, forwards and link previews, plus the channel's title, description and subscriber count. Filter by keyword and date. No Telegram account, no phone number, no API keys.

What you can use it for

• Market and crypto signals: monitor news, trading and crypto channels on a schedule.
• Brand and media monitoring: track what channels say about a keyword.
• Content research: find the posts with the most views and reactions in a niche.
• Datasets for AI: clean text with dates and engagement for analysis or RAG.
• Channel due diligence: subscribers, posting frequency and engagement before you buy ads.

Input

Field	What it does
Public channels	durov, @durov or https://t.me/durov.
Max posts per channel	Newest first.
Only posts containing	Telegram's own in-channel search (also matches link previews).
Only posts after	Stops at this date: ideal for daily schedules.
Add channel info	Channel title, description, subscribers and verified badge on every row.

{
  "channels": ["telegram", "https://t.me/durov"],
  "maxPostsPerChannel": 500,
  "searchQuery": "AI",
  "postedAfter": "2026-01-01"
}

Output

{
  "channelUsername": "durov",
  "postId": 552,
  "url": "https://t.me/durov/552",
  "date": "2026-10-11T14:52:40+00:00",
  "text": "Designers x AI ...",
  "views": 997000,
  "mediaType": "video",
  "photos": [],
  "videos": [{ "thumbnailUrl": "https://cdn4.telesco.pe/file/...", "duration": "1:15" }],
  "links": ["https://t.me/designers"],
  "hashtags": [],
  "forwardedFrom": { "name": "Telegram Designers", "url": "https://t.me/designers/266" },
  "reactions": [{ "emoji": "stars", "count": 5620 }],
  "totalReactions": 22810,
  "edited": false,
  "channelTitle": "Pavel Durov",
  "channelSubscribers": 10400000,
  "channelVerified": true
}

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Pricing

Pay per post saved: $1.00 per 1,000 posts on paid Apify plans (less on Scale and Business). Set a spending limit per run and the Actor stops cleanly when it is reached.

Limits

• Works only for channels that have a public web preview at t.me/s/<channel>. Private channels, groups and bots are skipped with a warning.
• Custom (premium) emoji reactions are reported as custom with their count.

FAQ

Do I need a Telegram account? No. The Actor reads the public web preview that Telegram itself publishes for every public channel.

Which input formats work? Channels can be durov, @durov, t.me/durov, t.me/s/durov or a post link like https://t.me/durov/123, one per line or several on a line, and links pasted with backticks, quotes or markdown are cleaned up. Inputs written for other Telegram scrapers also work: profiles or scrapeGroup for channels, count for the post limit, and oldestMessageDate or scrapeLastNDays for the date. Dates accept 2026-09-01 or relative values like "7 days" or "yesterday".

Is this legal? It reads only public channel posts that Telegram shows to anyone on the web. It does not collect member lists or phone numbers.