Telegram Info Scraper ✈️

Telegram Info Scraper resolves public Telegram handles, channels, groups, bots, and user profiles into clean, structured metadata without requiring any Telegram login or API keys.

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🌟 Key Features

• No Telegram Login Required: Extract public channel, group, bot, and profile data without needing phone numbers or Telegram API session keys.
• Universal Input Resolution: Accepts handles (e.g. durov, @telegram), profile URLs (https://t.me/durov), or web preview links (https://t.me/s/news).
• Entity Type Auto-Detection: Automatically identifies whether an input handle is a channel, group, bot, or user profile.
• Subscriber & Member Stats: Extracts subscriber count, group member count, photo/video/link counts, verified status, profile pictures, and bios.
• Recent Channel Posts: Extracts recent public posts/messages with post IDs, dates, full post text, views, media URLs (photos, videos), and post reactions.
• Dynamic & Flexible Output: Export results in JSON, CSV, Excel, XML, or HTML via the Apify API or Console.

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📥 Input Configuration

The scraper accepts a list of Telegram handles or URLs along with post extraction settings.

Input Parameters

Parameter	Type	Default	Description
handles	Array	["durov", "@telegram"]	Array of Telegram handles, usernames, or URLs to scrape.
startUrls	Array	[]	Array of Telegram request objects or URL strings.
includePosts	Boolean	true	Whether to extract recent channel messages/posts for public channels/groups.
maxPostsPerChannel	Integer	20	Maximum number of recent posts to scrape per channel (1 to 100).
proxyConfiguration	Object	{}	Optional Apify proxy settings.

Example Input JSON

{
  "handles": [
    "durov",
    "@telegram",
    "https://t.me/news"
  ],
  "includePosts": true,
  "maxPostsPerChannel": 10
}

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📤 Output Format

Each dataset item contains complete profile metadata and optionally an array of recent posts.

Example Output JSON

{
  "handle": "durov",
  "url": "https://t.me/durov",
  "title": "Pavel Durov",
  "type": "channel",
  "description": "Founder of Telegram.",
  "image": "https://cdn4.telesco.pe/file/...",
  "isVerified": true,
  "subscribersCount": 11300000,
  "membersCount": null,
  "extraText": "11 341 280 subscribers",
  "actionButtonText": "View in Telegram",
  "previewUrl": "https://t.me/s/durov",
  "photosCount": 101,
  "videosCount": 45,
  "linksCount": 194,
  "filesCount": null,
  "recentPostsCount": 5,
  "posts": [
    {
      "postId": "518",
      "postUrl": "https://t.me/durov/518",
      "date": "2026-05-19T18:02:53+00:00",
      "text": "Anyone can now prompt their own text transformation style...",
      "views": "4.47M",
      "viewsNumeric": 4470000,
      "author": "Pavel Durov",
      "isEdited": true,
      "mediaType": "video",
      "mediaUrls": [
        "https://cdn4.telesco.pe/file/..."
      ],
      "reactions": [
        "7.81K",
        "25K"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "scrapedAt": "2026-08-06T08:18:36.870Z"
}

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🚀 How to Run

Locally with Node / Apify CLI

1. Install dependencies:

   $npm install
   

2. Run schema validation:

   $apify validate-schema
   

3. Execute the actor locally:

   $npm start
   

   or

   $apify run
   

On the Apify Platform

Deploy using the Apify CLI:

$apify push

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🎯 Common Use Cases

• Competitive Intelligence: Track subscriber growth and post performance across public industry channels.
• Brand Monitoring: Monitor mentions, announcements, and audience reactions in real-time.
• Influencer Discovery: Evaluate channel engagement rates, reach, and verification status.
• Content Aggregation: Collect media, announcements, and posts for archiving or analysis.

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📄 License

LICENSE