Telegram Channel Scraper — Posts, Views & English

What does Telegram Channel Scraper do?

It extracts posts from any public Telegram channel. You don't need a Telegram account, phone number or API keys:

• 📝 Message text, date, views, reactions (including paid ⭐ Stars), photos, videos, documents, links and hashtags
• 🔁 Forwarded-from and reply-to info
• 📊 Channel info: title, description, subscribers, and photo, video and link counts
• 🇬🇧 Translate to English from Russian, Ukrainian, Arabic, Persian, Chinese and any other language (textEn) at no extra cost
• 📅 Date filter for daily monitoring (only new posts)

Use cases

• News & OSINT monitoring of channels in any language, auto-translated to English
• Crypto & trading signals tracking
• Brand / competitor monitoring and engagement analytics (views & reactions per post)
• AI datasets of public posts

Pricing

Result	Price
Message	$0.001
Channel info	$0.002

🆓 On Apify's Free plan you can try it practically free (about $0.01 per 1,000 results). The prices above apply to paid plans.

For example, the last 1,000 posts of a channel cost $1.

Input example

{ "channels": ["durov", "https://t.me/telegram"], "maxMessagesPerChannel": 500, "onlyNewerThan": "2026-10-01", "translateToEnglish": true }

Output examples

Channel

{
  "type": "channel",
  "channel": "durov",
  "url": "https://t.me/durov",
  "title": "Pavel Durov",
  "description": "Founder of Telegram.",
  "subscribers": 10400000,
  "photos": 102,
  "videos": 47,
  "links": 200,
  "avatar": "https://cdn4.telesco.pe/file/Hw7ckQk2zWBEBZgeKvjJv…",
  "verified": false
}

Message

{
  "type": "message",
  "channel": "durov",
  "id": 552,
  "url": "https://t.me/durov/552",
  "date": "2026-10-11T14:52:40+00:00",
  "text": "✨ Designers × AI\n\n🆕 The mockup era is over. Today’s AI tools give every designer a superpower: you can now craft your ideas, not just draw them. \n\nThe gap betwe…",
  "views": 974000,
  "reactions": [
    {
      "emoji": "⭐",
      "paidStars": true,
      "count": 5610
    },
    {
      "customEmojiId": "5936157098181135162",
      "count": 11800
    },
    {
      "customEmojiId": "5399847211989246390",
      "count": 5130
    },
    {
      "customEmojiId": "5373223594484587136",
      "count": 3860
    }
  ],
  "totalReactions": 26400,
  "links": [
    "https://t.me/designers"
  ]
}

Limits

Works with public channels that have a web preview (t.me/s/name). Private channels, groups and bots aren't supported, and they're reported in the log without being charged.

Is it legal?

This Actor reads public channel posts shown to any visitor on t.me. Comply with privacy laws when processing personal data.

Feedback

Open an issue in the Issues tab. Requests usually ship within a few days.