# Telegram Channel Scraper - Messages, Views, Reactions & Media (`geese_chief/telegram-channel-scraper`) Actor

Scrape public Telegram channels without a login or API key: full message history with text, date, views, reactions, photos, video flag, links, hashtags, mentions and forwards, plus channel info and subscriber count. Keyword and date filters.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/geese_chief/telegram-channel-scraper.md
- **Developed by:** [Ponytail Data](https://apify.com/geese_chief) (community)
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

from $2.10 / 1,000 results

This Actor is paid per event. You are not charged for the Apify platform usage, but only a fixed price for specific events.
Since this Actor supports Apify Store discounts, the price gets lower the higher subscription plan you have.

Learn more: https://docs.apify.com/actors/running/actors-in-store.md#pay-per-event

## What's an Apify Actor?

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In Batch mode, an Actor accepts a well-defined JSON input, performs an action which can take anything from a few seconds to a few hours,
and optionally produces a well-defined JSON output, datasets with results, or files in key-value store.
In Standby mode, an Actor provides a web server which can be used as a website, API, or an MCP server.

Apify vocabulary and the platform model are defined once, in the agent quickstart at https://apify.com/agents.md.

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You adapt to their stack and deliver integrations that are safe, well-documented, and production-ready.

Do not guess an integration path. Every one of them is in the agent quickstart at https://apify.com/agents.md: the Apify MCP server, Agent Skills with the Apify CLI, the JavaScript and Python clients, the REST API, and the account-free path for an agent with no human to sign in. It also carries the rule on stating cost before the first paid run.

For examples already wired to this Actor's own input schema, see the [API](#api) section below.

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# README

## Telegram Channel Scraper - Messages, Views, Reactions & Media

Scrape **any public Telegram channel** with no Telegram account, phone number or API key. You get the channel's message history with views, reactions, media and links, plus the channel's subscriber count, all as clean rows.

- **Full history**: pages back from the newest message until it reaches your limit or date.
- **Per message**: text, date, views, total reactions, author signature, forwarded-from, photos, video flag, link preview, links, hashtags, @mentions, edited flag.
- **Channel info**: title, verified badge, description, subscribers, photo/video/link counts.
- **Filters**: keywords, posted in the last N days. You only pay for messages that pass.
- **Many channels per run.** Fast, with no browser and no proxy.

### Output

A message:

```json
{
  "type": "message",
  "channel": "durov",
  "messageId": 552,
  "url": "https://t.me/durov/552",
  "date": "2026-10-11T14:52:40+00:00",
  "text": "✨ Designers × AI\n\n🆕 The mockup era is over. Today's AI tools give every designer a superpower...",
  "views": 1270000,
  "author": "Pavel Durov",
  "forwardedFrom": null,
  "hashtags": [],
  "mentions": ["@designers"],
  "links": [],
  "photos": [],
  "hasVideo": true,
  "reactions": 30090,
  "edited": false
}
```

A channel:

```json
{
  "type": "channel",
  "channel": "durov",
  "title": "Pavel Durov",
  "verified": true,
  "description": "Founder of Telegram.",
  "subscribers": 10300000,
  "photos": 102,
  "videos": 47,
  "links": 200,
  "url": "https://t.me/durov"
}
```

Export to JSON, CSV, Excel or Google Sheets, or send it to Make, Zapier or n8n.

### Use cases

- **Crypto, trading and news monitoring**: schedule runs with `postedWithinDays: 1` and keywords.
- **Brand and OSINT research**: track what public channels say about a topic.
- **Influencer and channel analytics**: views, reactions and posting frequency.
- **AI datasets**: clean message text with dates and engagement.

### Input

```json
{
  "channels": ["durov", "https://t.me/telegram"],
  "maxMessagesPerChannel": 500,
  "postedWithinDays": 30,
  "keywords": ["ai", "update"],
  "includeChannelInfo": true
}
```

### Pricing

**$3 per 1,000 results** ($0.003 per message or channel row). No monthly rental.

### FAQ

**Which channels work?** Public channels with a web preview (`t.me/s/<name>`). Private channels, groups and channels that have disabled the preview can't be scraped.

**Are counts exact?** Telegram shows large numbers rounded (for example 1.27M views), and they're converted to numbers as shown.

**Can I download the videos?** You get photo URLs and a `hasVideo` flag with the message link. Telegram doesn't put large videos in the public preview.

# Actor input Schema

## `channels` (type: `array`):

Public channel usernames or links: durov, @durov, https://t.me/durov.

## `maxMessagesPerChannel` (type: `integer`):

Newest messages to get per channel (after filters). The Actor pages back through history until it has this many.

## `postedWithinDays` (type: `integer`):

Only get messages from the last N days.

## `keywords` (type: `array`):

Only keep messages containing at least one of these (case-insensitive).

## `includeChannelInfo` (type: `boolean`):

Add one row per channel with title, description, subscriber count and photo.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "channels": [
    "durov"
  ],
  "maxMessagesPerChannel": 200,
  "includeChannelInfo": true
}
```

# Actor output Schema

## `results` (type: `string`):

No description

# API

You can run this Actor programmatically using our API. Below are code examples in JavaScript, Python, and CLI, as well as the OpenAPI specification and MCP server setup.

## JavaScript example

```javascript
import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

// Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
// Replace the '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token
const client = new ApifyClient({
    token: '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>',
});

// Prepare Actor input
const input = {
    "channels": [
        "durov"
    ]
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("geese_chief/telegram-channel-scraper").call(input);

// Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if any)
console.log('Results from dataset');
console.log(`💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/${run.defaultDatasetId}`);
const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
items.forEach((item) => {
    console.dir(item);
});

// 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs

```

## Python example

```python
from apify_client import ApifyClient

# Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
# Replace '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token.
client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>")

# Prepare the Actor input
run_input = { "channels": ["durov"] }

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("geese_chief/telegram-channel-scraper").call(run_input=run_input)

# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)
print(f"💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/{run.default_dataset_id}")
for item in client.dataset(run.default_dataset_id).iterate_items():
    print(item)

# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start

```

## CLI example

```bash
echo '{
  "channels": [
    "durov"
  ]
}' |
apify call geese_chief/telegram-channel-scraper --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,geese_chief/telegram-channel-scraper"
        }
    }
}
```

The hosted server signs you in with OAuth on first connect, so no API token belongs in this config. Clients without OAuth support can send an `Authorization: Bearer <APIFY_API_TOKEN>` header instead, using a token from API & Integrations in Apify Console (https://console.apify.com/settings/integrations).

## OpenAPI specification

Download the OpenAPI definition: https://api.apify.com/v2/actors/cQY3zuPFnxoHcLNB6/builds/jR3akifSarW66qCuC/openapi.json