Telegram Channel Scraper – Messages, Views & Keyword Monitor

Export posts from any public Telegram channel: text, date, views, reactions, photo and video URLs, link previews, links, hashtags, mentions and emails found in each post, plus a channel profile row with subscribers. Filter by keyword, date or views, and use only-new mode to monitor channels on a schedule and pay only for new posts.

✅ Pay per result: $0.30 per 1,000 messages · 🆓 Filtered-out messages and non-public channels are never charged · 🔑 No login, phone number or API key · ⏱️ Start fee only $0.00005

▶ Try it with one click · 📄 Real example output · 💲 Pricing · 🔌 API & integrations · ❓ FAQ · 🛟 Support

What does Telegram Channel Scraper do?

• 📨 Messages with full context: text (line breaks and emoji kept), date, views, author signature, edited flag, forwarded-from, reply-to link.
• 🖼️ Media URLs: photos, videos and video thumbnails, documents, polls, link previews (URL, site, title, description, image).
• 👍 Engagement: every reaction with its count (paid star reactions flagged) and a reactionsTotal number for sorting.
• 🔗 Entities pulled out for you: links, telegramLinks (to find related channels), hashtags, mentions and emails in each post.
• 🔎 In-channel search: searchQuery uses Telegram's own channel search, so you reach old posts on a topic without paging the whole history.
• 🎯 Filters that save money: keywords (any of), exclude keywords, date range ("7 days" or a date), minimum views. Skipped posts cost nothing.
• 🔁 Only new messages for monitoring: the Actor remembers the newest post per channel, so a daily or hourly schedule returns and charges only what is new.
• 📊 Channel profile row: title, verified flag, description, subscribers, photo/video/link counts. Set max messages to 0 for profiles only.

Use cases

• Crypto and trading teams: monitor announcement and signal channels for token names or tickers, sorted by views.
• Brand and PR monitoring: alert on mentions of your brand or product across many channels.
• Researchers and journalists: archive public channels with dates, views and forwards for analysis.
• Marketers and growth teams: compare channels by subscribers and engagement, find related channels from forwards and t.me links.
• AI and RAG builders: feed clean post text plus links into an LLM pipeline or vector store.

How to use it

1. Click Try for free. The prefill reads the official telegram and durov channels, 20 posts each, in a few seconds for about $0.013.
2. Replace the channels with your own: usernames (durov), @durov, https://t.me/durov or https://t.me/s/durov.
3. Optional: add keywords, a date range, a minimum view count or a search query.
4. Run it, then export the Messages table as JSON, CSV or Excel, or read it by API.
5. For monitoring, tick Only new messages and add a schedule.

Input example

{
  "channels": ["telegram", "durov"],
  "maxMessagesPerChannel": 20,
  "keywords": [],
  "dateFrom": "30 days",
  "onlyNew": false
}

Other options: searchQuery, excludeKeywords, dateTo, minViews, includeChannelInfo, maxConcurrency.

Output example (from a real run)

Channel profile row (run on 24 Oct 2026):

{
  "type": "channel",
  "channel": "durov",
  "channelUrl": "https://t.me/durov",
  "title": "Pavel Durov",
  "username": "@durov",
  "verified": true,
  "description": "Founder of Telegram.",
  "subscribers": 10300000,
  "subscribersText": "10.3M",
  "photos": 102,
  "videos": 47,
  "links": 200
}

Message row (text shortened with ...):

{
  "type": "message",
  "channel": "durov",
  "messageId": 548,
  "url": "https://t.me/durov/548",
  "date": "2026-09-11T16:04:02+00:00",
  "text": "🤝 Telegram has become the sponsor of Codeforces ... the largest competitive programming platform in the world. ...",
  "views": 3640000,
  "viewsText": "3.64M",
  "edited": false,
  "isForwarded": false,
  "mediaTypes": [],
  "linkPreview": {
    "url": "https://codeforces.com/blog/entry/156620",
    "siteName": "Codeforces",
    "title": "Telegram Returns as Title Sponsor of Codeforces!"
  },
  "reactions": [
    { "emoji": "⭐", "count": 21900, "paid": true },
    { "emoji": "custom:5399847211989246390", "count": 36400, "paid": false }
  ],
  "reactionsTotal": 78890,
  "links": ["https://codeforces.com/blog/entry/156620"],
  "hashtags": [],
  "mentions": [],
  "emails": [],
  "matchedKeywords": []
}

Field	Meaning
type	message, channel (profile) or error (free)
messageId, url, date	Post ID, permanent link, ISO date (UTC)
text, textLength	Plain text of the post
views, viewsText	Views as a number (3.64M → 3640000) and as shown
reactions, reactionsTotal	Emoji + count; custom emoji appear as custom:<id>
photos, videos, videoThumbnails, documents, poll, linkPreview	Media and attachments
links, telegramLinks, hashtags, mentions, emails	Entities found in the post
isForwarded, forwardedFrom, forwardedFromUrl, replyToUrl, edited	Post context
matchedKeywords	Which of your keywords matched

How much does it cost to scrape Telegram channels?

Price update: from 7 Nov 2026 (06:30 UTC) the price per message rises from $0.0003 to $0.001 ($1 per 1,000 messages); channel rows stay $0.0005. Apify gives users 14 days' notice. The prices below apply until then.

Event	Price	When
Message	$0.0003	Each message saved ($0.30 per 1,000)
Channel profile	$0.0005	Each channel profile row (if enabled)
Actor start	$0.00005 per GB of memory	Once per run (default 256 MB)
Filtered out, not public, failed	$0	Never charged

Worked examples:

Job	Arithmetic	Cost
One-click example (2 channels × 20 posts + 2 profiles)	40 × $0.0003 + 2 × $0.0005	≈ $0.013
10,000 posts from 20 channels	10,000 × $0.0003 + 20 × $0.0005	≈ $3.01
Hourly monitor, 50 channels, ~300 new posts a day, 30 days	9,000 × $0.0003 + 720 runs × $0.00001 start	≈ $2.71 / month (turn profiles off for monitoring)
Keyword scan of 5,000 posts, 200 match	200 × $0.0003	$0.06

Set Maximum cost per run in Apify and the Actor stops cleanly at your limit.

Integrations (API, AI agents, Make, Zapier)

Run and get results in one call:

curl -X POST "https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/chris_elder~telegram-channel-scraper/run-sync-get-dataset-items?token=YOUR_APIFY_TOKEN" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"channels":["durov"],"maxMessagesPerChannel":50,"keywords":["update"]}'

Python:

from apify_client import ApifyClient
client = ApifyClient("YOUR_APIFY_TOKEN")
run = client.actor("chris_elder/telegram-channel-scraper").call(run_input={"channels": ["telegram"], "dateFrom": "7 days"})
for item in client.dataset(run["defaultDatasetId"]).iterate_items():
    print(item.get("date"), item.get("views"), item.get("url"))

• AI agents (MCP): https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=chris_elder/telegram-channel-scraper
• Make, Zapier and n8n: use the Apify "Run Actor" module. Pair Only new messages with an Apify schedule and a webhook to push new posts to Slack, Sheets or a database.

Limits and good to know

• Works only for channels that have a public web preview (t.me/s/<name>). Private channels, invite links (t.me/+...), most groups, users and bots have none; they return a free error row.
• Telegram's preview shows about 20 posts per page; the Actor pages back automatically. Very long histories take a while (roughly 20 posts per second per channel).
• Comments under posts are not in the preview and are not collected.
• Media are returned as URLs from Telegram's CDN; those links expire after some time, so download files you need soon after the run.
• View counts are rounded by Telegram above 1,000 (for example 10.2K).

Is it legal?

The Actor reads only the public web preview that Telegram publishes for public channels, the same page anyone can open in a browser without logging in. It does not log in, join channels, read private chats or bypass any access control. Posts can contain personal data (names, emails), so you are responsible for a lawful basis for your use (for example GDPR). See Apify's guide: Is web scraping legal?

FAQ

Do I need a Telegram account or API ID? No. Nothing to log in to, no phone number.

How do I monitor channels for keywords? Add channels and keywords, tick Only new messages, and schedule the Actor hourly or daily. Only new matching posts are returned and charged.

Can I get posts from a specific date range? Yes. dateFrom accepts a date (2026-10-01) or relative time (7 days, 24 hours); paging stops once older posts are reached. dateTo sets the upper bound.

Why is a channel returning an error row? It has no public preview (private, a group or a user), or the username is wrong. Error rows are free.

Can it download the photos and videos? It returns the media URLs. Pass them to Bulk File Downloader to save the files or a ZIP.

Support, reliability and feature requests

• Non-public channels, filtered posts and failed pages are free.
• Every release is tested on real public channels; the example input works.
• Issues answered within 2 business days via the Actor Issues tab.
• Breaking input or price changes are announced in this README first.

Built by GPT Shop Ltd with AI-assisted development; every release is reviewed and tested.

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