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Telegram Channel Scraper — Messages, Views & Media | from $3/1K

Scrape public Telegram channel messages with text, view counts, timestamps, media type, links, forwards, and reply threading — no API key, no login, no proxy required. Structural HTML parser (not class-name fragile) with parse_confidence drift signal. Paginates backwards via cursor.

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You can access the Telegram Channel Scraper — Messages, Views & Media | from $3/1K programmatically from your own applications by using the Apify API. You can also choose the language preference from below. To use the Apify API, you’ll need an Apify account and your API token, found in Integrations settings in Apify Console.

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Telegram Channel Scraper — Messages, Views & Media OpenAPI definition

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