✈️ Telegram Channel Scraper - Posts, Views & Reactions

Export the posts of public Telegram channels: text, date, views, reactions, photos, videos, links, forwards and replies, with the channel's title and subscriber count on every row. Read a channel's whole history, only what is new since a date, or only the posts that match a keyword. No Telegram account, no API keys, no phone number. Export to JSON/CSV/Excel, run on a schedule, call via API, or connect to Make, Zapier or n8n.

🔎 What is the Telegram Channel Scraper?

It is an Apify Actor that reads the web preview Telegram itself publishes for public channels, 20 posts per request and without a browser. The default run takes about four seconds. In our test on Apify two channels with 3,623 posts between them were exported back to their first post in under two minutes.

Give it channel names, @handles or t.me links. Three inputs decide what you get:

• Maximum posts per channel counts from the newest post back. Set it high for the whole history.
• Posted on or after stops the run at the first older post. A scheduled run with a date then reads, and charges for, only what is new.
• Search inside the channels uses the search Telegram offers inside a channel and returns only matching posts, newest first.

What data does it extract?

• Post: id, message_id, url, text, posted_at, edited, author
• Reach: views, reactions (emoji and count), reactions_total
• Media: media_types, photo_urls, video_urls, video_duration_seconds
• Links: links, link_preview_url, link_preview_title, link_preview_description, hashtags, mentions
• Thread: forwarded_from, forwarded_from_url, reply_to_url
• Channel: channel, channel_title, channel_subscribers, channel_description

⬇️ Input

Field	Type	What it does
channels	array	Public channel names, @handles or t.me links
maxResults	integer	Posts per channel, newest first. 20 by default, up to 100,000
postedAfter	date	Only posts from this UTC date on; reading stops at older posts
searchQuery	string	Only posts matching these words

Example input

Everything two channels posted since September 1:

{
  "channels": ["durov", "https://t.me/bloomberg"],
  "maxResults": 1000,
  "postedAfter": "2026-09-01"
}

⬆️ Output

A real row (long values are shortened here):

{
  "id": "durov/548",
  "message_id": 548,
  "url": "https://t.me/durov/548",
  "channel": "durov",
  "text": "🤝 Telegram has become the sponsor of Codeforces — the largest competitive programming platform in the world. \n\n ⚡CodeForces organizes over 100 coding contests every year and has 4 million contestants signed up.\n\n🌱 Since 2010, …",
  "posted_at": "2026-09-11T16:04:02+00:00",
  "edited": false,
  "views": 1940000,
  "reactions": [
    {
      "emoji": "⭐",
      "count": 21100
    },
    {
      "emoji": "custom",
      "count": 31000
    },
    {
      "emoji": "custom",
      "count": 8990
    },
    {
      "emoji": "custom",
      "count": 8490
    }
  ],
  "reactions_total": 69580,
  "author": "Pavel Durov",
  "forwarded_from": null,
  "forwarded_from_url": null,
  "reply_to_url": null,
  "media_types": [
    "not_shown_on_web"
  ],
  "photo_urls": [],
  "video_urls": [],
  "video_duration_seconds": null,
  "link_preview_url": "https://codeforces.com/blog/entry/156620",
  "link_preview_title": "Telegram Returns as Title Sponsor of Codeforces!",
  "link_preview_description": "Hi, Codeforces!",
  "links": [
    "https://codeforces.com/blog/entry/156620"
  ],
  "hashtags": [],
  "mentions": [],
  "channel_title": "Pavel Durov",
  "channel_subscribers": 10500000,
  "channel_description": "Founder of Telegram.",
  "scraped_at": "2026-10-03T11:52:30.315393+00:00"
}

views and reaction counts are rounded by Telegram itself above a few thousand (1.94M becomes 1940000). Reactions with a premium custom emoji appear as custom, paid stars as ⭐.

💰 How much does it cost?

You pay per saved post, plus a tiny start fee per run.

Apify plan	Price per 1,000 posts
Free	$1.00
Starter	$0.95
Scale	$0.90
Business and above	$0.85

The default run (20 posts) costs 2 cents. Set Maximum cost per run in the run options and the Actor stops at that amount and says so in the status message.

💡 Use cases

• 📰 News and brand monitoring: schedule a run with Posted on or after and send new posts of the channels you follow to Slack, a sheet or your own database.
• 🔍 Keyword tracking: search a set of channels for a product, a ticker or a name and get only the matching posts with their reach.
• 📊 Channel analysis: export a channel's history and see what earns views and reactions, how often it posts and whom it forwards.
• 🧠 Datasets for AI and research: years of posts with dates, links and engagement, ready for classification or summaries.

❓ FAQ

Do I need a Telegram account, an API id or a phone number? No. The Actor reads the preview pages Telegram publishes for public channels and never logs in.

Which channels work? Public channels that have Telegram's web preview, which is most of them. Groups, bots, private channels and channels that restrict their content have no preview; the Actor names them in the status message and the SUMMARY record, and the run still succeeds with the other channels.

Does it really reach a channel's first post? Yes. Posts are read 20 at a time until the channel ends or your limit is reached. A channel with 428 posts was read back to post number 1.

What does not_shown_on_web in media_types mean? Telegram shows a part of that post only in its apps, for example a large video. The text, date, views and reactions are still exported.

Can I download the photos and videos? The row has their links. They are Telegram's own temporary links and expire after a while; the Actor does not download or store files.

Are comments and member lists included? No. Comments live in a channel's discussion group, and neither they nor subscriber lists are part of the public preview.

How does the search work? It is Telegram's own search inside one channel, so it matches the way Telegram does. Each channel in the input is searched separately.

Does maxResults count per channel or per run? Per channel. To cap the whole run, set Maximum cost per run.

Is it legal to scrape Telegram channels? The Actor reads only what Telegram shows publicly to any visitor and does not log in. Posts and author names can be personal data, so GDPR, CCPA and similar rules apply to how you store and use them, and Telegram's terms apply to you as well. If in doubt, ask a lawyer.

Something is missing or broken? Open an issue on the Actor's Issues tab with the run ID. Issues are answered within one business day.

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