Telegram Channel Scraper — Public Posts, No Login or API Key

Scrape the entire post history of any public Telegram channel — no login, no bot token, no API key, no phone number. This actor reads Telegram's own public web preview at t.me/s/<channel> and pages backwards through the whole timeline.

Perfect for OSINT, crypto‑signal and news monitoring, research, and archiving — without the friction of the official Bot/MTProto APIs (which require tokens, joining the channel, or a phone number).

What you get per post

{
  "channel": "durov",
  "channelTitle": "Du Rove's Channel",
  "channelSubscribers": 1200000,
  "postId": 512,
  "url": "https://t.me/durov/512",
  "text": "Full post text, with newlines preserved…",
  "date": "2026-05-14T12:38:57+00:00",
  "views": 2990000,
  "author": "Pavel Durov",
  "outboundLinks": ["https://…"],
  "photos": ["https://cdn4.telegram-cdn.org/file/…"],
  "hasVideo": false,
  "linkPreview": { "url": "https://…", "siteName": "…", "title": "…", "description": "…" },
  "forwardedFrom": null,
  "isReply": false,
  "source": "telegram-channel"
}

Example inputs

Full history of several channels:

{ "channels": ["durov", "telegram", "https://t.me/bloomberg"], "maxPostsPerChannel": 0 }

Search inside a channel:

{ "channels": ["durov"], "searchQuery": "privacy" }

Features

• 📜 Full backward pagination — the channel's whole available history, 20 posts at a time.
• 🔎 In‑channel keyword search via searchQuery.
• 👁️ View counts, dates, author signatures.
• 🖼️ Media — photo URLs, video presence, documents, polls.
• 🔗 Link previews and outbound links parsed out.
• ↪️ Forwards & replies flagged.
• 📊 Channel metadata — title and subscriber count on every row.

Use cases

• Crypto / trading — archive signal channels and mine calls with view counts.
• News & OSINT — monitor and back‑fill public channels at scale.
• Brand & topic monitoring — track mentions across many channels.
• Research & datasets — build Telegram post corpora keyless.

Notes & limits

• Works only on public channels (those with a t.me/s/<name> preview). Private channels, groups and bots have no public web preview.
• Telegram serves posts 20 at a time; very large channels take many pages — use maxPostsPerChannel to cap.
• View counts and reactions reflect what the public preview shows.

FAQ

Do I need a Telegram account, bot token, or API ID? No. Nothing. It reads the public web preview.

Can it scrape private channels or groups? No — only public channels with a web preview.

How far back does it go? As far as the channel's public preview allows — typically the full history.

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