# Telegram Channel Scraper – Posts, Views, Reactions & Search (`pardoning_vacation/telegram-channel-scraper`) Actor

Scrape posts from any public Telegram channel: text, views, reactions, photos, videos, files, links, forwards and channel stats. Search inside channels by keyword and filter by date. No login, no phone number, no API keys.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/pardoning_vacation/telegram-channel-scraper.md
- **Developed by:** [Павел Тищенко](https://apify.com/pardoning_vacation) (community)
- **Categories:** Social media, News, Lead generation
- **Security:** Limited permissions
- **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?

An Actor is a serverless cloud program that runs on the Apify platform. It has two run modes.
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

### What does Telegram Channel Scraper do?

**Telegram Channel Scraper** extracts posts from any **public Telegram channel** — text, publish date, **views, reactions**, photos, videos, files, polls, link previews, forwards, replies, hashtags and mentions — together with channel stats (title, **subscriber count**, verification, description, avatar).

You can **search inside channels by keyword or hashtag** and limit results by **date range**. No Telegram account, no phone number, no API ID/hash and no login needed.

### Why use it?

- **Market & crypto intelligence**: track announcements, signals and sentiment in crypto, trading and news channels.
- **Brand and competitor monitoring**: see what channels say about your brand, product or competitors.
- **Media monitoring & research**: archive and analyse news, political or OSINT channels.
- **Influencer & ad research**: compare channels by subscribers, views per post and engagement (reactions).
- **AI datasets**: feed clean post text into LLMs, RAG pipelines and classifiers.

### Features

- ✅ Any number of public channels in one run (usernames, @handles or t.me links)
- ✅ Goes back in time as far as you need (`maxPostsPerChannel`)
- ✅ **Keyword / hashtag search** inside each channel
- ✅ **Date filters**: oldest and newest post date
- ✅ Views, reactions (with counts), forwards, replies, polls, link previews
- ✅ Photo URLs, video URLs with thumbnails and duration, documents
- ✅ Channel stats on every post: subscribers, verified badge, description
- ✅ Per-channel error items — a wrong username never fails the run
- ✅ Fast and lightweight: no browser, no login

### How to use it

1. Enter channel usernames or links in **Telegram channels** (e.g. `durov`, `@telegram`, `https://t.me/somechannel`).
2. Optionally set **Max posts per channel**, a **Search keyword** and a **date range**.
3. Click **Start** and export the results as JSON, CSV, Excel or via API.

#### Input example

```json
{
  "channels": ["durov", "https://t.me/telegram"],
  "maxPostsPerChannel": 200,
  "searchKeyword": "",
  "oldestDate": "2026-01-01",
  "includeChannelInfo": true
}
```

#### Output example

```json
{
  "channel": "durov",
  "id": 548,
  "url": "https://t.me/durov/548",
  "date": "2026-09-11T16:04:02+00:00",
  "author": "Pavel Durov",
  "text": "🤝 Telegram has become the sponsor of Codeforces — the largest competitive programming platform in the world. ...",
  "views": 2230000,
  "reactions": [{ "emoji": "⭐", "count": 21700 }],
  "photos": [],
  "videos": [],
  "documents": [],
  "linkPreview": { "url": "https://codeforces.com/blog/entry/156620", "site": "Codeforces", "title": "Telegram Returns as Title Sponsor of Codeforces!" },
  "links": ["https://codeforces.com/blog/entry/156620"],
  "hashtags": [],
  "mentions": [],
  "forwardedFrom": null,
  "replyTo": null,
  "status": "ok",
  "channelTitle": "Pavel Durov",
  "channelSubscribers": 10500000,
  "channelVerified": true,
  "channelDescription": "Founder of Telegram."
}
```

### How much does it cost?

This Actor uses **pay-per-event** pricing: you pay a small fixed price **per post scraped** — see the Pricing tab. Error items (wrong usernames, private channels) are free. Platform usage is included.

### Limitations

- Only **public channels** that have Telegram's web preview enabled can be scraped. Private channels, groups and channels with disabled preview return an error item.
- Subscriber counts are shown by Telegram rounded (e.g. `10.5M`) and converted to numbers.
- Custom (premium) emoji reactions are returned with their `customEmojiId`.

### FAQ

**Do I need a Telegram account or API key?** No.

**Can I scrape comments or group members?** No — this Actor covers public channel posts only.

**Is it legal?** It reads only content that Telegram publishes publicly on the web for anyone to see. You are responsible for complying with applicable laws (e.g. GDPR) in how you use the data.

**Need something else?** Open an issue in the Issues tab.

# Actor input Schema

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

Public channel usernames or links, e.g. durov, @telegram or https://t.me/bbcnews.

## `maxPostsPerChannel` (type: `integer`):

Newest posts are scraped first, going back in time until this limit (or the oldest date) is reached.

## `searchKeyword` (type: `string`):

Only return posts in each channel that match this word or phrase (Telegram's own channel search). Hashtags work too, e.g. #crypto.

## `oldestDate` (type: `string`):

Stop when posts are older than this date. Format YYYY-MM-DD.

## `newestDate` (type: `string`):

Skip posts newer than this date. Format YYYY-MM-DD.

## `includeChannelInfo` (type: `boolean`):

Channel title, subscriber count, verification, description and avatar.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "channels": [
    "durov",
    "https://t.me/telegram"
  ],
  "maxPostsPerChannel": 50,
  "includeChannelInfo": true
}
```

# Actor output Schema

## `overview` (type: `string`):

Main results table.

## `results` (type: `string`):

Every field of every result item.

# 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 = {
    "channels": [
        "durov",
        "https://t.me/telegram"
    ]
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("pardoning_vacation/telegram-channel-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 = { "channels": [
        "durov",
        "https://t.me/telegram",
    ] }

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("pardoning_vacation/telegram-channel-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 '{
  "channels": [
    "durov",
    "https://t.me/telegram"
  ]
}' |
apify call pardoning_vacation/telegram-channel-scraper --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,pardoning_vacation/telegram-channel-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/Sy8130S4RltZZCasp/builds/i95GxwkMOmUabPKw0/openapi.json