Telegram Channel Scraper (No Login)

Paste public Telegram channel names or links and get every post as a clean row — text, views, reactions, photos, videos, links — plus one summary row per channel with subscribers, posting rate, average views and engagement rate.

No Telegram account, no API key, no phone number. It reads the public web preview (t.me/s/channel) the same way a browser does, so there is nothing that can get banned.

What you get

One row per post

Field	Example
channel, postId, url	cointelegraph, 72574, https://t.me/cointelegraph/72574
date, edited	2026-10-09T05:30:21+00:00, false
text	Full post text with line breaks
views	5590
reactions, reactionsTotal	[{"emoji":"🔥","count":24},{"emoji":"❤","count":15}], 50 (paid star reactions appear as stars)
photos	Array of image URLs
videos	[{"url","thumbnailUrl","duration"}]
links, documents, poll	Links found in the text, attached file names, poll question
forwardedFrom, replyTo, authorSignature	Where available
hasMedia, isServiceMessage	Booleans

One row per channel (type: "channel")

Field	Meaning
title, username, verified, description, photoUrl	Channel profile
subscribers	Subscriber count as a number (332000) and as shown (332K)
photosCount, videosCount, filesCount, linksCount	Channel media counters
postsLast7Days, postsPerDay	Posting activity in the scanned sample
avgViews, avgReactions	Averages over the scanned posts
engagementRate	avgViews / subscribers — handy for vetting channels before buying ads
latestPostDate, latestPostId	Freshness
status	OK, NOT_FOUND, NO_PREVIEW or UNAVAILABLE

Input

Field	Default	Notes
channels	—	One per line: durov, @durov, https://t.me/durov, t.me/s/durov. A post link such as https://t.me/durov/548 fetches just that post.
maxPostsPerChannel	100	How many of the newest posts to scan per channel (up to 5,000).
dateFrom	—	Keep only posts on or after this date (YYYY-MM-DD). Scanning stops at older posts.
keywords	—	Keep only posts containing at least one keyword (case-insensitive).
includeChannelInfo	true	Add the channel summary row.
onlyNewPosts	false	Remember the newest post per channel and return only newer ones next time. Pair with a schedule to monitor channels.
proxyConfiguration	off	Not needed in normal use.

{
  "channels": ["cointelegraph", "durov", "https://t.me/telegram/441"],
  "maxPostsPerChannel": 200,
  "keywords": ["ETF", "bitcoin"],
  "dateFrom": "2026-10-01"
}

Pricing

You pay per row delivered: one price per post and one per channel summary. Channels that cannot be read (NOT_FOUND, NO_PREVIEW, UNAVAILABLE) are reported but not charged. Typical speed is about 300 posts in under 10 seconds.

Good to know

• Works only for public channels with web preview enabled — the same ones you can open at t.me/s/<channel> in a browser. Private channels, groups, members lists and comments need a logged-in account and are deliberately not supported.
• channel is the username used in the post URLs. If a channel was renamed, this is the current name even when you entered the old one.
• views and subscribers are parsed from Telegram's rounded numbers (1.5M, 332K).
• Media URLs point to Telegram's CDN and may expire after a while; download soon if you need the files.
• Reactions are shown for channels that have them enabled; otherwise the array is empty.

Use cases

• Monitor news, crypto or product channels on a schedule and push new posts to Slack, Sheets or a webhook (onlyNewPosts: true).
• Vet channels before buying placements: subscribers vs. average views (engagementRate), posting frequency, reactions.
• Build datasets of posts by keyword and date range for research.

FAQ

Is this the Telegram API? No. It reads public web previews. If Telegram changes the page layout the Actor is updated.

Can it get comments or group members? No — those require a logged-in account, which is against the spirit of this Actor (no accounts, nothing to ban).

Something looks wrong? Open an issue in the Issues tab and it will be fixed.