# Telegram Channel Search - Find Channels by Topic & Keyword (`seemuapps/telegram-channel-search`) Actor

Find public Telegram channels and groups by keyword, topic, country or language - subscribers, average post reach, ERR, description and t.me link.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/seemuapps/telegram-channel-search.md
- **Developed by:** [Seemu Scraping](https://apify.com/seemuapps) (community)
- **Stats:** 1 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

$2.00 / 1,000 channel founds

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?

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For examples already wired to this Actor's own input schema, see the [API](#api) section below.

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# README

## Telegram Channel Search - Find Channels by Topic & Keyword

Find public Telegram channels by keyword, topic, country or language and export them as a clean list with subscriber counts, average post reach, engagement rate (ERR), description, verified badge and t.me link. No login, no phone number, no Telegram account needed.

### What you get

One row per unique channel (or group), with:

- **Title, username and t.me URL** - ready to open or join
- **Subscribers** - live count read from the channel's public Telegram page
- **Category** - the channel's topic (Cryptocurrencies, News and media, Health and Fitness, ...)
- **Average post reach** and **ERR %** - how many people actually see each post, and the share of subscribers that is (great for spotting channels with fake or inactive audiences)
- **Citation index** - how often other channels mention and repost this channel
- **Description** - the full channel bio, including contact handles and links
- **Verified badge** and **avatar URL**
- **Country and language** - filled from your filters, or looked up per channel with one switch
- **Groups** (optional) - public Telegram groups with member counts, weekly messages and monthly active users
- **Keyword** that found the channel, so multi-keyword runs stay easy to split

Results are deduplicated across keywords, sorted largest first, and can be exported to JSON, CSV, Excel or Google Sheets.

### Use cases

- **Telegram advertising and media buying** - build a shortlist of channels in your niche, compare reach and ERR, and skip channels with inflated subscriber counts
- **Influencer and community outreach** - find channel owners' contact handles in their descriptions
- **Market and competitor research** - map every channel covering a topic, country or language
- **Lead generation** - collect crypto, trading, e-commerce, education or local news channels at scale
- **OSINT and media monitoring** - discover channels to feed into a Telegram post scraper

### How to use

1. Enter one or more **Keywords** in any language (for example `crypto`, `fitness`, `новости`)
2. Optionally pick a **Category**, **Country** or **Language** - you can also leave Keywords empty and browse by these filters alone
3. Set **Min subscribers** / **Max subscribers** to target a channel size (e.g. 5,000-50,000 for micro-influencers)
4. Set **Max channels per keyword** (default 100; 0 returns every match)
5. Turn on **Include groups** to also get public Telegram groups, and **Include country and language** to look these up for every channel
6. Run the actor - channels appear in the **Dataset** tab

### Input example

```json
{
  "keywords": ["crypto", "fitness"],
  "language": "English",
  "minSubscribers": 5000,
  "maxItems": 200,
  "includeChats": false
}
```

### Output example

```json
{
  "type": "channel",
  "title": "Blum: All Crypto – One App",
  "username": "blumcrypto",
  "url": "https://t.me/blumcrypto",
  "subscribers": 13689871,
  "category": "Cryptocurrencies",
  "country": "World",
  "language": "English",
  "description": "Your easy, fun crypto trading app for buying and trading any crypto on the market.\n📱 App: @Blum\n🤖 Trading Bot: @BlumCryptoTradingBot",
  "avatarUrl": "https://cdn4.telesco.pe/file/....jpg",
  "verified": true,
  "averagePostReach": 116100,
  "errPercent": 0.8,
  "citationIndex": 3309,
  "weeklyMessages": null,
  "monthlyActiveUsers": null,
  "keyword": "crypto",
  "source": "https://tgstat.com/channel/@blumcrypto/stat",
  "scrapedAt": "2026-10-12T03:53:54.250Z"
}
```

`weeklyMessages` and `monthlyActiveUsers` are filled for groups; `averagePostReach`, `errPercent` and `citationIndex` for channels.

### Good to know

- **Coverage**: results come from a large public Telegram channel catalogue with millions of channels. It is strongest for English, Russian, Ukrainian, Uzbek, Persian, Hindi and other big Telegram markets; niche keywords in smaller languages may return fewer channels.
- **Search in descriptions** is on by default and finds many more channels. Turn it off if you only want channels whose name contains the keyword.
- **Groups** come from the public group ranking (the top groups in your chosen category, or top groups overall whose name matches a keyword), so expect up to about 100 groups per run, not thousands.
- **Country and language lookup** adds one request per channel and makes runs slower. Some channels do not publish this information, so expect most but not all rows to be filled.
- Only **public** channels with a username are returned. Private invite-only channels are skipped.
- Channels whose username now belongs to a person or bot are dropped automatically, and you are never charged for them.

### Pricing

You pay per channel returned. Filtered-out, duplicate and dead channels are never charged.

# Actor input Schema

## `keywords` (type: `array`):

Topics or phrases to search for, in any language (e.g. 'crypto', 'fitness', 'новости'). Each keyword is searched separately and channels are deduplicated across keywords. Leave empty to browse by category, country or language only.

## `category` (type: `string`):

Only return channels in this topic category. Leave empty for any.

## `country` (type: `string`):

Only return channels registered to this country. Leave empty for any.

## `language` (type: `string`):

Only return channels that post in this language. Leave empty for any.

## `minSubscribers` (type: `integer`):

Skip channels with fewer subscribers than this. 0 = no minimum.

## `maxSubscribers` (type: `integer`):

Skip channels with more subscribers than this (useful for finding small and mid-size channels). 0 = no maximum.

## `maxItems` (type: `integer`):

Maximum number of channels to return for each keyword (largest channels first). 0 = all matching channels.

## `searchInDescription` (type: `boolean`):

When enabled, a keyword also matches channels that mention it in their description, not just in the title or username. Gives many more results.

## `verifiedOnly` (type: `boolean`):

Only return channels with the official Telegram verification badge.

## `includeChats` (type: `boolean`):

Also return public Telegram groups (chats) from the group ranking: top groups in the selected category, or the overall top groups whose name matches a keyword.

## `includeDetails` (type: `boolean`):

Open each channel's public t.me page to add the full description, verified badge, high-resolution avatar and a live subscriber count. Slightly slower; recommended.

## `includeGeoLanguage` (type: `boolean`):

Look up each channel's country and language. Adds one extra request per channel, so runs are slower. When you filter by Country or Language, those fields are filled automatically without this option.

## `proxyConfiguration` (type: `object`):

Proxy used for directory requests. The default (Apify datacenter proxy) works well; the actor rotates IPs automatically when it hits a rate limit.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "keywords": [
    "crypto",
    "fitness"
  ],
  "minSubscribers": 0,
  "maxSubscribers": 0,
  "maxItems": 100,
  "searchInDescription": true,
  "verifiedOnly": false,
  "includeChats": false,
  "includeDetails": true,
  "includeGeoLanguage": false,
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": true
  }
}
```

# Actor output Schema

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

One channel or group per record: type, title, username, url, subscribers, category, country, language, description, avatarUrl, verified, averagePostReach, errPercent, citationIndex, keyword, source.

# 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 = {
    "keywords": [
        "crypto",
        "fitness"
    ],
    "maxItems": 100,
    "proxyConfiguration": {
        "useApifyProxy": true
    }
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("seemuapps/telegram-channel-search").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 = {
    "keywords": [
        "crypto",
        "fitness",
    ],
    "maxItems": 100,
    "proxyConfiguration": { "useApifyProxy": True },
}

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("seemuapps/telegram-channel-search").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 '{
  "keywords": [
    "crypto",
    "fitness"
  ],
  "maxItems": 100,
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": true
  }
}' |
apify call seemuapps/telegram-channel-search --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,seemuapps/telegram-channel-search"
        }
    }
}
```

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/J5JPrHqyGXrAi2Lbe/builds/bbOeTtGGpvv7yZbQh/openapi.json