# Telegram Channel Scraper - Posts, Views & Reactions (`get_anything/telegram-channel-scraper`) Actor

Scrape public Telegram channels without an account: posts with text, date, views, reactions, photos, videos, links, hashtags and forwards, plus channel profile (subscribers, description). Search inside a channel, stop at a date, or monitor for new posts only. No API key or phone number.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/get_anything/telegram-channel-scraper.md
- **Developed by:** [Get Anything](https://apify.com/get_anything) (community)
- **Categories:** Social media, News
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

from $0.56 / 1,000 posts

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?

An Actor is a serverless cloud program that runs on the Apify platform. It has two run modes.
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.

## How to integrate an Actor?

If asked about integration, you help developers integrate Actors into their projects.
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.

Each client library has reference documentation the quickstart does not restate: [JavaScript/TypeScript](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs.md) (`npm install apify-client`) and [Python](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs.md) (`pip install apify-client`).

# README

## Telegram Channel Scraper - Posts, Views & Reactions

Scrape **public Telegram channels** without a Telegram account, API keys or a phone number. For every post you get the **text, date, views, reactions, photos, video info, links, hashtags, mentions, forwards, replies and link previews**. You also get a **channel profile** with title, description, verified badge, subscriber count and media counts.

**Search inside a channel** by keyword or hashtag, **stop at a date**, or turn on **Monitor mode** and schedule it to get only posts published since the last run.

Plain HTTP on Telegram's public `t.me/s/` web preview. Fast and cheap.

### What you can do with it

- **Crypto, trading and news monitoring:** follow signal and news channels and push new posts to Slack, Discord, Sheets or your app.
- **Brand and threat monitoring:** search channels for your brand, product or keywords.
- **Market and media research:** compare channels by subscribers, views per post and engagement.
- **Content archiving and analytics:** export a channel's full public history with views and reactions.
- **AI agents and LLMs (ChatGPT, Claude, Cursor via Apify MCP):** "Summarize the last 20 posts from @durov." The text is clean, with emojis and line breaks kept.

### Input

| Field | Description |
|---|---|
| `channels` | Usernames or links: `durov`, `@telegram`, `https://t.me/telegram`. |
| `maxPostsPerChannel` | Newest first (default 20). `0` = full history. |
| `searchQuery` | Optional keyword or `#hashtag` to search within each channel. |
| `postedAfter` | Stop when posts are older than this date. |
| `includeChannelInfo` | One profile row per channel (default on). |
| `onlyNewPosts` | Monitor mode: only posts newer than the last run. |

Example:

```json
{
  "channels": ["telegram", "durov"],
  "maxPostsPerChannel": 50,
  "postedAfter": "2026-01-01"
}
```

### Output

**Post**

```json
{
  "resultType": "post",
  "channel": "telegram",
  "postId": 460,
  "url": "https://t.me/telegram/460",
  "date": "2026-08-26T19:12:34+00:00",
  "text": "For all the info from today's update ...",
  "views": 2150000,
  "reactions": [{ "emoji": "👍", "count": 54400 }, { "emoji": "⭐", "count": 6760, "type": "stars" }],
  "reactionsCount": 61160,
  "photos": [],
  "hasVideo": true,
  "videoDuration": "0:12",
  "links": ["https://telegram.org/blog/..."],
  "hashtags": [],
  "mentions": [],
  "forwardedFrom": null,
  "linkPreview": { "url": "https://telegram.org/blog/...", "site": "Telegram", "title": "Welcome Messages, Buttons in Messages ..." }
}
```

**Channel**

```json
{
  "resultType": "channel",
  "channel": "durov",
  "title": "Pavel Durov",
  "description": "Founder of Telegram.",
  "verified": true,
  "subscribers": 10200000,
  "photos": 102,
  "videos": 47,
  "links": 200
}
```

Custom (premium) emoji reactions come back as `type: "custom_emoji"` with their `emojiId`, because Telegram's web preview doesn't show the glyph. Channels that don't exist, are private, or have the web preview turned off return one free `error` row.

### Use it from ChatGPT, Claude & AI agents

This Actor works as a tool for AI assistants through the **Apify MCP server**, and the inputs are designed so an agent can fill them in.

- **Claude (claude.ai / Desktop), ChatGPT, Cursor, VS Code, Windsurf:** add the MCP server URL below as a custom connector / MCP server and sign in with your Apify account:

  ```
  https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=get_anything/telegram-channel-scraper
  ```

- **Claude Desktop / Cursor config file:**

  ```json
  { "mcpServers": { "apify": { "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=get_anything/telegram-channel-scraper" } } }
  ```

- **Any LLM framework or GPT Action (REST):** one call runs the Actor and returns the results as JSON:

  ```
  POST https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/get_anything~telegram-channel-scraper/run-sync-get-dataset-items?token=YOUR_TOKEN
  ```

- **No-code:** Make, Zapier, n8n, LangChain and LlamaIndex have Apify integrations.

Then just ask, for example: *"Summarize the last 20 posts from the @telegram channel and list the links shared."*

### Pricing

Pay per event: you pay per post returned and per channel profile. Error rows are free. See the Pricing tab for current prices.

### FAQ

**Can it scrape private channels or groups?** No. Only public channels that have a `t.me/s/<name>` web preview.

**Do I need a Telegram account?** No.

**Do I need a proxy?** Usually not.

# Actor input Schema

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

Public channel usernames or links: 'durov', '@telegram', 'https://t.me/telegram'.

## `maxPostsPerChannel` (type: `integer`):

Newest posts first. 0 = the whole channel history.

## `searchQuery` (type: `string`):

Optional keyword or #hashtag. Only posts matching it are returned (Telegram's own channel search).

## `postedAfter` (type: `string`):

Stop when posts get older than this date (YYYY-MM-DD).

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

Add one row per channel with title, description, subscribers and media counts (charged per channel).

## `onlyNewPosts` (type: `boolean`):

Remember the last post per channel and return only newer posts on the next run. Schedule it for alerts.

## `proxyConfiguration` (type: `object`):

Usually not needed.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "channels": [
    "telegram",
    "durov"
  ],
  "maxPostsPerChannel": 20,
  "includeChannelInfo": true,
  "onlyNewPosts": false,
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": false
  }
}
```

# Actor output Schema

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

Structured results in the default dataset - one item per post and one per channel profile.

# 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": [
        "telegram",
        "durov"
    ],
    "maxPostsPerChannel": 20,
    "proxyConfiguration": {
        "useApifyProxy": false
    }
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("get_anything/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": [
        "telegram",
        "durov",
    ],
    "maxPostsPerChannel": 20,
    "proxyConfiguration": { "useApifyProxy": False },
}

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("get_anything/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": [
    "telegram",
    "durov"
  ],
  "maxPostsPerChannel": 20,
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": false
  }
}' |
apify call get_anything/telegram-channel-scraper --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,get_anything/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/DLc9f8xqqGOjqqRDA/builds/YNbpNN1HKFydrF6Hh/openapi.json