📡 TeleHawk — Telegram Public Channel Scraper & Keyword Monitor

No login, no API token, no MTProto session required. Scrape any public Telegram channel's messages, views, media and forwarded-from info, and optionally filter by keyword — in one run.

Reads Telegram's own official public preview interface (the same lightweight page Telegram serves to search engines), so there's nothing to configure: no api_id/api_hash from my.telegram.org, no phone-number login, no session string to generate and store. Just type a channel name and go.

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👥 Who needs this

You are a…	You get…
🔍 OSINT researcher	Public channel monitoring without a Telegram account or API setup
📈 Crypto / trading signal tracker	Pull every post from a signals channel, filtered by keyword
🏷️ Brand / competitor monitor	Track mentions of your brand or a competitor across specific channels
📰 Market & trend researcher	Bulk-export a news or community channel's post history
🤖 Automation builder	Feed Telegram channel content into n8n/Zapier/Make pipelines

✨ What you get, per message

• 📝 Full message text
• 👁️ View count (as shown, e.g. 1.72M, plus a parsed numeric estimate)
• 🖼️ Media type + CDN URL (photo or video)
• 🔁 Forwarded-from channel (if the post was forwarded)
• 🕒 Exact post date/time (ISO 8601)
• 🔗 Direct message URL
• ✍️ Author name (shown on channels that display it)

🚀 How to use

1. Add one or more public Telegram channel usernames (with or without @).
2. Optionally add a keyword to filter by, or a media-only toggle.
3. Press Start.

Example 1 — scrape a channel's recent history

{
  "channels": ["telegram"],
  "maxMessagesPerChannel": 200
}

Example 2 — monitor multiple channels for a keyword

{
  "channels": ["durov", "telegram", "nytimes"],
  "maxMessagesPerChannel": 500,
  "keyword": "update"
}

Example 3 — media-only pull (photos & videos)

{
  "channels": ["nytimes"],
  "maxMessagesPerChannel": 100,
  "mediaOnly": true
}

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📦 Output (per message)

channel, status, message_id, message_url, date, text, views_display, views_estimate, media_type, media_url, forwarded_from, author.

A channel that's private, a group (not a channel), or doesn't exist returns one honest status: "not_found_or_private" row with a clear error message — never silently skipped, never a fabricated empty success.

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⚠️ Scope & limits (read before running)

• Public channels only. Private channels, groups, and DMs are not accessible this way — there is no keyless public preview for them, and this actor does not attempt to join, log in, or bypass that.
• Shows the same message history Telegram's own public preview exposes — typically the channel's full post history is reachable via pagination, but very old or heavily-pruned channels may have less available.
• keyword filters the messages this run actually fetches from the channels you list — it does not search all of Telegram globally (no public, keyless endpoint for that exists).

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