Telegram Scraper: Exact Views, Deleted Posts & Ads
Pricing
from $1.10 / 1,000 posts
Scrape public Telegram channels and groups with no login or phone number. Get posts with exact views, search them by keyword, get channel statistics, catch deleted and edited posts, and check the ads you bought. Export to Excel, CSV, or JSON, or get alerts in Telegram.
Row type
type
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The kind of row: post, message (a group message), comment, profile, change (a deleted or edited post), tracking (an ad check), story, advertiser, or status.
Channel
channel
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The channel's or group's username, as in t.me/username. Status rows about a whole run have none.
Channel title
channelTitle
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Posts and messages: the channel's or group's display name.
Channel ID
channelId
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Posts and profiles: Telegram's numeric ID of the channel, when its page shows it.
Channel subscribers
channelSubscribers
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Posts: the channel's subscribers when the post was read, to compare its views with its audience.
Post ID
postId
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Comments: the number of the post the comment belongs to.
Post URL
postUrl
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Comments: the link to the post the comment belongs to.
ID
id
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The number of the post, message, or comment in its channel or group.
URL
url
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The link to the post, message, comment, or channel.
Published
date
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When the post, message, or comment was published, in UTC (ISO 8601).
Edited
edited
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Whether Telegram marks the post, message, or comment as edited.
Text
text
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The text as a reader sees it. Change rows: the text after the edit, or the deleted post's text. Links behind words are in links.
Text in Markdown
markdown
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The text with its formatting and links in Markdown, when Formatted text includes Markdown.
Text in HTML
html
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The text with Telegram's formatting in HTML, when Formatted text includes HTML.
Language
language
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The language of the text as an ISO 639-1 code, or null when the text is too short to tell.
Views
views
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The post's views. Exact when viewsExact is true, otherwise rounded as Telegram's web page shows them. Advertiser rows: the total views of the advertiser's ads.
Exact views
viewsExact
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True when views is the exact count, false when it is rounded (for example 62300 for "62.3K"). Views under 1,000 are always exact.
Forwards
forwards
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How many times the post was forwarded. Only with Exact views and forwards on; otherwise null.
Reactions
reactions
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Full format: each reaction with its emoji (or custom emoji ID), whether it is a paid star, and its count.
Reactions in total
reactionsTotal
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The sum of all reactions.
Reactions by emoji
reactionCounts
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Full format: the count of each emoji, one key per emoji.
Media
media
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Full format: photos, videos, files, voice messages, and stickers, each with its type, link, and size or duration where shown. A saved copy is in file.
Media links
mediaUrls
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The links of the media files, the saved copies when Download media files is on. Compact format: one text, links separated by spaces.
Has photo
hasPhoto
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Whether the post has a photo.
Has video
hasVideo
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Whether the post has a video.
Has voice message
hasVoice
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Full format: whether the post has a voice message.
Has file
hasDocument
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Full format: whether the post has a file.
Album size
albumSize
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Full format: the number of photos and videos in an album, or 0 when the post is not an album.
Link preview
linkPreview
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Full format: the preview of a linked page, with its site, title, and description.
Poll
poll
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Full format: the poll's question, options, and votes.
Forwarded from
forwardedFrom
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Full format: the name and link of the chat a forwarded post came from.
Reply to
replyTo
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Full format: the message a reply answers, with its link, author, and text.
Sender
sender
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Group messages and comments: who sent it, with name and username. Compact format: one text, "Name (@username)".
Via bot
viaBot
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Full format: the bot the post was sent through.
Links
links
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Posts: the links in the text, including those behind words. Compact format: one text, links separated by spaces. Profiles: the number of links the channel has shared.
Mentions
mentions
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Posts: the @usernames in the text. Profiles: the channels the channel mentions most, with how many posts.
Emails
emails
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Full format: the email addresses in the text.
Service message
service
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Full format: whether the post is a service message, such as a changed channel photo.
Ad
ad
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Set when the channel marks the post as an ad: the label, the ad ID, and where the ad leads. Compact format: the ad ID or the label as one text.
Matched keywords
matchedKeywords
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The keywords the post contains. Compact format: one text, separated by commas.
Found by
foundBy
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Posts: the hashtag the post was found by. Profiles: the names the channel was found by in Find channels by name.
Scraped
scrapedAt
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When the row was read, in UTC (ISO 8601).
Kind
kind
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Profiles: channel, group, or bot.
Title
title
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Profiles: the display name of the channel, group, or bot.
Description
description
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Profiles: the channel's, group's, or bot's description.
Photo
photo
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Profiles: the link to the profile photo.
Verified
verified
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Profiles: whether Telegram shows the verified badge.
Subscribers
subscribers
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Profiles: the channel's subscribers. Advertiser rows: the subscribers of the advertised channel, when the ad leads to one.
Exact subscribers
subscribersExact
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Profiles: true when subscribers is the exact count, false when it is rounded.
Members
members
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Group profiles: the number of members.
Members online
online
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Group profiles: the number of members online when the group was read.
Monthly users
monthlyUsers
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Bot profiles: the bot's monthly users.
Photos shared
photos
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Channel profiles: the number of photos the channel has shared.
Videos shared
videos
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Channel profiles: the number of videos the channel has shared.
Files shared
files
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Channel profiles: the number of files the channel has shared.
Last post
lastPostAt
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Channel profiles: when the latest post was published, in UTC.
Posts sampled
postsSampled
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Channel profiles: how many of the latest posts the statistics are based on.
Posts measured
postsMeasured
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Channel profiles: the sampled posts with views, used for the view statistics.
Posts per day
postsPerDay
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Channel profiles: the average number of posts a day.
Average views
avgViews
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Channel profiles: the average views of a post.
Median views
medianViews
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Channel profiles: the median views of a post.
Reach, %
engagementRate
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Channel profiles: average views as a percentage of subscribers.
Views trend, %
viewsTrend
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Channel profiles: how the views of newer posts compare with older ones, in percent.
Reactions per view
reactionsPerView
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Channel profiles: reactions divided by views.
Average forwards
avgForwards
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Channel profiles: the average forwards of a post, with Exact views and forwards on.
Average comments
avgComments
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Channel profiles: the average comments of a post, with Comments set to count or collect.
Best hours
bestHours
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Channel profiles: the hours (UTC) whose posts get the most views.
Best days
bestDays
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Channel profiles: the days of the week whose posts get the most views.
Content mix
content
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Channel profiles: the share of posts with each kind of content, and of forwarded posts.
Languages
languages
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Channel profiles: the languages of the posts, with each one's share.
Top posts
topPosts
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Channel profiles: the 3 most viewed posts of the sample.
Top reactions
topReactions
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Channel profiles: the most used reactions.
Ads
ads
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Channel profiles: ad posts, their share and number a day, the latest one, their views against other posts, and the top advertisers.
Contacts
contacts
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Profiles: the contacts in the description, such as for advertising.
Forward sources
forwardSources
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Channel profiles: the chats the channel forwards from most, with how many posts.
Growth
growth
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Profiles: the change in subscribers, members, or users since the previous run, a week, and a month ago, from earlier runs.
Summary
summary
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Profiles: the main numbers in one sentence.
Measured
measuredAt
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Profiles: when the statistics were measured, in UTC.
Change
change
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Change rows: deleted or edited.
What changed
changed
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Edited posts: what the edit changed: text, links, or media.
Text before
previousText
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Edited posts: the text before the edit.
Links before
previousLinks
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Edited posts: the links before the edit.
Media before
previousMedia
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Edited posts: the media before the edit.
Last seen unchanged
lastSeenAt
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Change rows: the last run that saw the post as it was, in UTC.
Detected
detectedAt
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Change rows: the run that found the change, in UTC. The change happened between lastSeenAt and this time.
Ad format
format
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Tracked posts: the ad format checked, hours at the top / hours in the channel, such as 1/24.
Views at milestones
viewsAt
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Tracked posts: the views 1, 24, and 48 hours after publication (and at the format's end), null when no check was close enough.
Kept at the top
topKept
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Tracked posts: whether no other post came during the hours at the top, or null while unknown.
Kept the full time
keptFullTime
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Tracked posts: whether the ad stayed in the channel for the format's hours, or null while unknown.
Verdict
verdict
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Tracked posts: kept, violated, unclear, or pending.
Message
message
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Status rows: what happened to the input and what to do. Tracked posts: the verdict in words.
Next post
nextPost
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Tracked posts: the channel's next post after the ad, and how many minutes later it came.
Deleted between
deleted
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Tracked posts: the last check that saw the ad and the first that did not, when it was deleted.
Edits
edits
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Tracked posts: each edit of the ad, with what changed, such as a swapped link.
Checks
checks
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Tracked posts: each check with its time and the views then.
Checked
checkedAt
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Tracked posts: this run's check, in UTC, or null when tracking was already done.
Tracking done
trackingDone
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Tracked posts: true when the post needs no more checks.
First post
first
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Stories: the post that published the story first, with its channel, link, date, and text.
Channels
channels
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Stories: how many channels covered the story. Advertiser rows: how many channels ran the advertiser's ads.
Posts
posts
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Stories: each channel's post, how it followed (forward, copy, or report), and how many minutes later. Advertiser rows: the number of ad posts. Status rows: the posts returned for the input.
Spread, minutes
spreadMinutes
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Stories: minutes from the first post to the last.
Advertiser
advertiser
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Advertiser rows: the site, app, channel, or bot the ads lead to.
Sites
sites
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Advertiser rows: the sites the ads link to.
First ad
firstAt
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Advertiser rows: when the first ad of the run was published, in UTC.
Last ad
lastAt
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Advertiser rows: when the latest ad of the run was published, in UTC.
Placements
placements
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Advertiser rows: each ad post with its channel, link, date, views, label, and ad ID.
Input
input
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Status rows: the input as it was entered.
Status
status
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Status rows: invalid, not_found, bot, user, group, preview_disabled, restricted, left_out, duplicate, partial, limit_reached, depth_reached, timed_out, or error.
Comments
comments
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The number of comments, with Comments set to count or collect. Null when the channel has comments turned off, 0 when there are none yet.