# Telegram Channel Scraper — Posts, Views & Media API (`joey001/telegram-scraper`) Actor

Scrape public Telegram channel messages without login. Returns text, views, publish time, media (photo/video/document), forwards, replies, links, hashtags and mentions. Paginated back through channel history, de-duplicated, normalized, with provenance on every row.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/joey001/telegram-scraper.md
- **Developed by:** [Joe Y](https://apify.com/joey001) (community)
- **Categories:** Social media, News, Lead generation
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

Pay per event

This Actor is paid per event. You are not charged for the Apify platform usage, but only a fixed price for specific events.

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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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 & Media (No Login)

Scrape **public Telegram channels** — message text, view counts, publish time, media, forwards, replies and links — without logging in, without an API key and without a browser.

Every row is normalized, de-duplicated and carries provenance, ready for spreadsheets, databases, dashboards or LLM pipelines.

### What you get

- **Any public channel** by username, `@handle` or URL.
- **Full history pagination** — walks back through the channel's messages (not just the latest page).
- **Keyword / hashtag filter** — restrict results to messages matching a term.
- **Rich, normalized fields** — text + HTML, views, publish time, media URLs, forwards, replies, external links, hashtags and mentions.

### Output fields

| Field | Description |
|---|---|
| `message_id` / `channel_username` / `channel_title` | Message identity |
| `url` | Canonical message link (`https://t.me/<channel>/<id>`) |
| `published_at` | ISO-8601 UTC publish time |
| `author` | Channel / author name |
| `text` / `text_html` | Plain text and original HTML |
| `views` | View count (K/M suffixes expanded to integers) |
| `media_type` / `media_url` | photo, video, document, voice, audio, sticker, poll, video_note |
| `is_forwarded` / `forwarded_from` | Forward provenance |
| `reply_to_channel` / `reply_to_message_id` | Reply target |
| `links` / `hashtags` / `mentions` | Extracted from the message |
| `schema_version` / `fetched_at` | Provenance |

### Use cases

- **News & OSINT monitoring** — track public channels and wire reports into your own pipeline.
- **Market & sentiment research** — quantify what channels post about and how much reach it gets.
- **Crypto / trading signal feeds** — capture announcement channels in near real time.
- **Content & AI datasets** — clean structured text for analysis, fine-tuning and RAG.

### Input

```json
{
  "channels": ["telegram", "@durov"],
  "filterKeyword": "",
  "maxMessagesPerChannel": 200,
  "onlyNewMessages": false
}
```

### Pricing

**Pay per result.** You are charged only for the messages delivered to your dataset (plus a small per-run fee). No subscription, no minimum.

### Notes

- Uses Telegram's public `t.me/s/` web preview — no login required.
- De-duplicated across channels and optionally **incremental** (`onlyNewMessages`) for scheduled runs.
- Intended for research, monitoring and analytics. Only public channels are supported; use in line with Telegram's terms and applicable law.

### Sample output

```json
{"channel_username": "telegram", "message_id": 441, "text": "Bot-to-Bot Communication...", "views": 1570000, "media_type": "video", "published_at": "2026-05-14T16:08:31+00:00"}
```

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# Actor input Schema

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

Public Telegram channel usernames, @handles or URLs, e.g. \["telegram", "@durov", "https://t.me/s/nasa"].

## `filterKeyword` (type: `string`):

Only return messages matching this keyword / #hashtag within the channel.

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

Cap on messages collected per channel (paginates back through history, 20 per page).

## `maxMessages` (type: `integer`):

Overall cap on messages pushed to the dataset.

## `onlyNewMessages` (type: `boolean`):

Skip messages returned by previous runs of this Actor (stored in the run's key-value store).

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "maxMessagesPerChannel": 200,
  "maxMessages": 100000,
  "onlyNewMessages": false
}
```

# 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 = {};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("joey001/telegram-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 = {}

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("joey001/telegram-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 '{}' |
apify call joey001/telegram-scraper --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,joey001/telegram-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/DasNfzH7vc5xk6Afz/builds/muNlmytnvd9vELuu3/openapi.json