Telegram Channel Scraper & Monitor: Posts, Views, Reactions

Get posts from any public Telegram channel, or search a keyword across thousands of active public channels at once: full text, date, views, reactions, engagement rate, hashtags, links, photos, video thumbnails, link previews, forwards and replies, plus the channel's title and subscriber count. Find channels by keyword, topic and language. Turn on monitor mode to receive only the posts published since your last run.

The Actor reads the public web preview that Telegram serves for every public channel at t.me/s/<channel>. No login, no phone number, no API key, no Telegram account.

What you get

• Search all channels: run Telegram's own search for your keyword in every channel of the built-in directory of active public channels, narrowed by language, topic and size. Combine it with monitor mode for keyword alerts across Telegram.
• Find channels: list channels by keyword, topic and language with subscribers, description and last post date. Or look up live details of the channels you list.
• Every post field that matters: text (and optional HTML), date, edited flag, views, reactions with counts (including paid Star reactions), engagement rate, views per subscriber, hashtags, links, media types, photo URLs, video thumbnails, link preview (site, title, description), forwarded-from and reply-to.
• Channel details on every post: channel username, title and subscriber count, so you can rank posts by reach.
• Search inside channels: searchQuery uses Telegram's search on each channel, so you can reach older posts about a topic without reading the whole history.
• Monitor mode: schedule the Actor and get only new posts. Quiet runs return nothing and cost only the $0.001 run fee.
• Filters: keywords, excluded words, posted within N days, max posts per channel.
• Clear run summary: channel title, description, subscribers and verified badge; channels without a public preview; posts scanned and returned.

Use cases

• Track crypto, finance or news channels and react to new announcements within minutes.
• Monitor competitors, brands or product channels for launches and price changes.
• Feed new posts to Slack, email, Google Sheets or an AI agent through Apify integrations.
• Build datasets for research, sentiment analysis or media monitoring.
• Compare channels by views and reactions per post.

Input

Field	Description
mode	posts (default) or channels (find channels in the directory, or look up the channels you list).
channels	Public channels: durov, @durov, https://t.me/durov, t.me/s/durov or a post link such as https://t.me/durov/552.
searchQuery	Posts: Telegram's search inside each channel, e.g. TON or #update; leave empty to read the latest posts. Channels: words that must appear in the channel name, title or description.
searchAllChannels	Search searchQuery in the directory channels too (requires searchQuery).
languages, topics, minSubscribers, maxChannels	Narrow the directory channels. maxChannels (default 1,000) keeps the largest matching channels.
keywords	Keep posts whose text, hashtags or link preview title contain any of these words.
excludeKeywords	Drop posts that contain any of these words.
postedWithinDays	Only posts from the last N days. Reading stops at the first older post.
maxPostsPerChannel	How many of the newest posts (or search results) to read per channel. Default 100; 0 = all posts, up to 10,000 per channel.
includeHtml	Add the formatted text as HTML in textHtml.
onlyNewPosts + monitorName	Monitor mode. The first run returns the latest posts and remembers the newest one per channel; later runs return only newer posts.

Latest 50 posts from two channels:

{
  "channels": ["durov", "https://t.me/telegram"],
  "maxPostsPerChannel": 50
}

Every post about TON on a channel:

{
  "channels": ["durov"],
  "searchQuery": "TON",
  "maxPostsPerChannel": 0
}

Every English-language post about airdrops in the last 7 days, across the English crypto channels in the directory:

{
  "searchAllChannels": true,
  "searchQuery": "airdrop",
  "languages": ["en"],
  "topics": ["crypto"],
  "postedWithinDays": 7
}

Hourly alerts when any channel in the directory mentions your brand (run it on a schedule):

{
  "searchAllChannels": true,
  "searchQuery": "YourBrand",
  "onlyNewPosts": true,
  "monitorName": "brand-alerts"
}

Find the largest Spanish-language news channels:

{
  "mode": "channels",
  "languages": ["es"],
  "topics": ["news"],
  "maxChannels": 50
}

Daily feed of new posts that mention a keyword (run it on a schedule):

{
  "channels": ["tginfo", "telegram", "durov"],
  "keywords": ["update", "wallet"],
  "onlyNewPosts": true,
  "monitorName": "telegram-updates"
}

Output

{
  "id": "durov/548",
  "channel": "durov",
  "channelTitle": "Pavel Durov",
  "channelSubscribers": 10200000,
  "postId": 548,
  "url": "https://t.me/durov/548",
  "date": "2026-09-11T16:04:02.000Z",
  "edited": false,
  "text": "🤝 Telegram has become the sponsor of Codeforces — the largest competitive progra...",
  "views": 3740000,
  "reactions": [
    { "emoji": null, "emojiId": null, "paid": true, "count": 21900 },
    { "emoji": null, "emojiId": "5399847211989246390", "paid": false, "count": 36500 },
    { "emoji": null, "emojiId": "5936157098181135162", "paid": false, "count": 10700 },
    { "emoji": null, "emojiId": "5373223594484587136", "paid": false, "count": 10000 }
  ],
  "reactionsTotal": 79100,
  "engagementRate": 0.0211,
  "viewsPerSubscriber": 0.3667,
  "hashtags": [],
  "links": ["https://codeforces.com/blog/entry/156620"],
  "mediaTypes": [],
  "photoUrls": [],
  "videoThumbnailUrls": [],
  "linkPreview": {
    "url": "https://codeforces.com/blog/entry/156620",
    "siteName": "Codeforces",
    "title": "Telegram Returns as Title Sponsor of Codeforces!",
    "description": "Hi, Codeforces!"
  },
  "forwardedFrom": null,
  "replyToPostId": null,
  "scrapedAt": "2026-10-27T08:22:30.354Z"
}

engagementRate is reactions divided by views; viewsPerSubscriber is views divided by the channel's subscribers. mediaTypes can contain photo, video, round_video, voice, audio, document, sticker, poll and location. Fields Telegram does not show are null or empty; nothing is guessed. The run summary is saved to the SUMMARY record in the key-value store.

In channels mode each item is a channel:

{
  "username": "cointelegraph",
  "url": "https://t.me/cointelegraph",
  "title": "Cointelegraph",
  "description": "The Future of Money\n\nUnbiased crypto, markets & Web3 news in real-time. Trusted since 2013. ...",
  "subscribers": 328000,
  "verified": false,
  "photoUrl": null,
  "language": "en",
  "topics": ["news", "crypto", "finance"],
  "lastPostDate": "2026-10-27T05:18:37.000Z",
  "source": "directory",
  "scrapedAt": "2026-10-27T09:31:42.775Z"
}

source is directory for channels from the built-in directory (built date in SUMMARY) and live for channels you listed, which are read from Telegram during the run (and include photoUrl).

Channel directory

The directory contains active public channels (at least 1,000 subscribers and a post in the last 120 days), discovered by following links and forwards between public channels. Adult channels are excluded.

Built on 27 October 2026: 8,353 channels, 701 of them with 100,000+ subscribers and 3,641 with 10,000+. By language: 7,356 Russian, 298 English, 264 German, 134 Ukrainian, 72 Italian, 49 French, 41 Spanish, 34 Kazakh and a few others. Russian-language Telegram is by far the largest network of public channels and is covered in depth; the English part covers the major crypto, news, geopolitics, finance and tech channels. For other markets, list the channels you need in channels. Language and topics are detected from each channel's title, description and recent posts, so they are approximate. Topics: crypto, finance, news, politics, tech, ai, business, sports, gaming, entertainment, education, jobs, travel, health, science, deals.

Channels you list in channels are always included, even when they are not in the directory.

Pricing

You pay per result: $1.00 per 1,000 posts or channels ($0.001 per result) plus $0.001 per run. Platform usage is included: you never pay for compute time, even when searching thousands of channels.

Example	Posts returned	Cost
Latest 100 posts from 5 channels	500	$0.501
Hourly monitor of 10 channels, a quiet hour	0	$0.001 (about $0.72 per month)
Daily monitor of 10 channels with 30 new posts	30	$0.031
Search a keyword in 1,000 channels, 40 matching posts	40	$0.041
Find the 100 largest channels on a topic	100 channels	$0.101

Posts removed by your filters and posts already returned in monitor mode are free.

Notes

• Only public channels have a web preview. Private channels, groups, bots, user accounts and invite links (t.me/+...) are listed in SUMMARY under channelsWithoutPublicPage or invalidEntries and skipped.
• Views, reactions and subscribers are the rounded numbers Telegram shows (1.54M becomes 1540000).
• Reactions with custom or animated emoji have only emojiId; Telegram's preview does not show the emoji character for them.
• Photo and video URLs point to Telegram's CDN and expire after some time. Download them soon if you need to keep them.
• Comments under posts are not part of the public preview and are not included.
• In monitor mode, maxPostsPerChannel still applies: if a channel publishes more new posts than that between two runs, only the newest ones are returned. Raise it or run more often for very active channels.
• Signed post author names are not extracted.

FAQ

Is this legal? The Actor reads only the public web preview that Telegram shows to anyone at t.me/s/<channel>, at a polite pace. It does not log in, join channels or collect members' personal data.

Why did a channel return nothing? Check SUMMARY: the name may be a group, bot, user or private channel without a public preview, or a typo.

Can I search all of Telegram? Telegram has no public search across all channels. "Search all channels" searches every channel in the built-in directory of active public channels, which covers the large and active ones. Add the channels you care about in channels to be sure they are searched.

Can I get the full history of a channel? Set maxPostsPerChannel to 0. The Actor reads up to 10,000 posts per channel, 20 posts per page.

How do I get alerts? Turn on onlyNewPosts, schedule the Actor (for example every hour) and connect the dataset to Slack, email, Make, Zapier or a webhook.