Export Telegram channel messages to JSON
For language researchers who need a small public text sample. Read the latest Telegram News posts without media attachments and return message text, dates, view counts and source URLs as dataset rows.
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The Telegram Channel Scraper and Telegram Keyword Search Actor is ready to run with the inputs already set for "Export Telegram channel messages to JSON". Sign up or log in and you'll land in Apify Console with a copy of this exact task.
Start the "Export Telegram channel messages to JSON" task
The Telegram Channel Scraper and Telegram Keyword Search Actor will start running based on the input automatically. You can also change all the input fields, like channel usernames or urls, max messages per channel, and more, to match your specific use case.
Receive the "Export Telegram channel messages to JSON" output
Monitor the progress in real time. You will be notified as soon as your dataset is complete and ready for review. Each result includes data such as channel, channel name, message id, and more.
Integrate into your workflow
The final output is delivered in JSON, CSV, or Excel format, ready to be plugged into your workflow. You can also run the "Export Telegram channel messages to JSON" task via API.
No. The Telegram Channel Scraper reads the public web preview of each channel. No API key, phone number, login or session is needed.
Every run of the Telegram Channel Scraper writes a dataset. Open it in Apify Console and download JSON, CSV or Excel, or call the dataset items API endpoint with format set to csv.
The Telegram Channel Scraper bills $0.005 per message delivered and nothing for channel metadata. 1,000 messages cost $5.00. Apify's free plan covers about 1,000 messages a month.
channel, channelName, subscriberCount, messageId, messageUrl, text, textHtml, datetime, viewCount, viewCountParsed, forwardedFrom, replyTo and links. Media URLs are added when includeMedia is on.