Telegram Channel Scraper: posts, views, reactions & media (no login)

Scrape any public Telegram channel without a Telegram account, phone number or API keys. Get every post with its text, date, views, emoji reactions, photos, video thumbnails, files, links, hashtags, replies and forwards, plus the channel profile: exact subscriber count, title, description, photo and verified badge. Filter by date range or keyword, and scrape thousands of posts per channel.

Price: $0.80 per 1,000 posts + $0.002 per channel profile + $0.005 per run, platform usage included. Invalid, private or empty channels are free.

What you can do with it

• Media & news monitoring: follow news, politics and brand channels, and track what gets the most views and reactions.
• Crypto & trading research: collect announcements, listings and signals from crypto channels, and search them by keyword (e.g. airdrop, listing).
• Influencer & channel analytics: compare subscribers, posting frequency, views per post and engagement across channels.
• Archiving & datasets: export a channel's full public history with media links for research, NLP or AI training.
• Scheduled tracking: run daily with Posts since = 1 day and get only the new posts.

Input

Field	Description
Channels	Usernames or links: durov, @durov, https://t.me/durov, t.me/s/durov or a post link like t.me/durov/123.
Max posts per channel	Posts come newest first. Default 100. Set 0 to get only the channel profile.
Posts since / until	Optional date range. Absolute (2026-10-01) or relative (7 days). Older posts are reached quickly by jumping straight to the right place in the channel.
Search in channel	Optional keyword. Returns only posts matching it (Telegram's own in-channel search).
Include channel profile	On by default. Adds one row per channel with exact subscribers, title, description, photo and verified badge.
Include service messages	Off by default. "Channel created", "photo updated" and similar.
Proxy	Optional. Not needed in our tests.

Example input:

{
    "channels": ["durov", "https://t.me/telegram", "@binance_announcements"],
    "maxPostsPerChannel": 200,
    "since": "2026-10-01",
    "searchQuery": "",
    "includeChannelInfo": true
}

Output

One dataset item per post (type: "post"). Example (shortened):

{
    "type": "post",
    "channel": "xataka",
    "postId": 54284,
    "url": "https://t.me/xataka/54284",
    "date": "2026-10-23T18:42:07.000Z",
    "text": "🆕 \"Van a empeorar mucho más\": Jason Clinton, subdirector de ciberseguridad de Anthropic, advierte...",
    "views": 904,
    "viewsText": "904",
    "reactions": [{ "emoji": "👎", "customEmojiId": null, "paid": false, "count": 5, "countText": "5" }],
    "reactionsTotal": 5,
    "author": null,
    "forwardedFrom": null,
    "replyTo": null,
    "mediaTypes": ["photo"],
    "media": [{ "type": "photo", "url": "https://cdn4.telesco.pe/file/...jpg", "postUrl": "https://t.me/xataka/54284", "viewInTelegramOnly": false }],
    "photoUrls": ["https://cdn4.telesco.pe/file/...jpg"],
    "videoThumbnailUrls": [],
    "videoUrls": [],
    "documents": [],
    "linkPreview": null,
    "links": ["https://www.xataka.com/seguridad/van-a-empeorar-mucho-jason-clinton-..."],
    "hashtags": [],
    "mentions": ["@xataka"],
    "isEdited": false,
    "scrapedAt": "2026-10-23T20:48:15.311Z"
}

Field	Notes
postId, url, date	Post number, link and publication time (UTC).
text	Full post text with line breaks and emoji.
views, reactions, reactionsTotal	Views and reactions per emoji. Custom emoji have customEmojiId instead of emoji; Telegram Stars reactions have paid: true.
forwardedFrom, replyTo	Original channel/author of forwarded posts and the post being replied to (id, link, author, text snippet).
media, mediaTypes	Every attachment: photo, video, GIF, audio, document, poll and more, with URL, thumbnail and duration.
photoUrls, videoThumbnailUrls, videoUrls, documents	Shortcuts for the most common media.
linkPreview, poll	Link preview card (site, title, description, image) and poll question/options.
links, hashtags, mentions	Extracted from the text.
author, isEdited	Post signature (if the channel signs posts) and edited flag.

Channel rows (type: "channel"): title, username, subscribers (exact, e.g. 10271522), description, photoUrl, verified, photosCount, videosCount, filesCount, linksCount, latestPostId, latestPostDate.

Error rows (type: "error", free): status = not_found, not_a_channel (groups, users and bots), no_public_preview (private or restricted channels), invalid_input, no_posts or error, plus a message. A run summary is saved to the key-value store as RUN_SUMMARY.

The dataset has ready-made views: Posts, Engagement, Media & links, Forwards & replies, Channels, Errors & skipped inputs.

Good to know

• Rounded numbers. Telegram shows views and reactions above 1,000 rounded (1.38M, 6.4K); views is the number Telegram shows (the exact text is in viewsText). The subscriber count is exact.
• Public channels only. Groups, private channels, users and bots can't be scraped without logging in, so they return a free error row.
• Large videos and files are not downloadable from the public web view: you get the thumbnail, duration and post link (viewInTelegramOnly: true).
• Hidden forwards. Many forwarded posts hide their source; forwardedFrom is then empty.
• Renamed channels. Some usernames point to a channel that has a new name (e.g. toncoin shows posts of @gram); posts keep the channel name Telegram uses in their links.
• Speed. About 10–75 posts per second depending on the channel; 1,200 posts from one channel took about 2 minutes. Several channels are scraped in parallel.
• Each post is returned once per run. No login, cookies or proxy needed.

Pricing

$0.80 per 1,000 posts ($0.0008 per post), $0.002 per channel profile and $0.005 per run start. Platform usage is included. Example: 500 posts from 5 channels with profiles costs $0.415. Error rows are free. Set Max posts per channel or the run's maximum cost to cap spend.

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Disclaimer

This Actor collects publicly available data from Telegram's public channel web preview (t.me). It is not affiliated with Telegram. Make sure your use complies with applicable laws, including data protection laws, and Telegram's terms.