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Telegram Channel Posts Scraper – Comments & Media

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Export public Telegram channel posts, comment counts and optional public comments with text, authors, dates, media, views, filters, and monitoring fields.

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from $0.23 / 1,000 post extracteds

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Hanna Nosova

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You can access the Telegram Channel Posts Scraper – Comments & Media 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 API & Integrations in Apify Console.

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Telegram Posts & Comments Scraper OpenAPI definition

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