✈️ Telegram Channels, Posts, Media & Reactions

Extract public Telegram channel profiles and messages from Telegram's web preview. No Telegram account, phone number, bot token or cookies required.

Designed for recurring monitoring

Each message has a stable channelUsername/messageId identity. Pass the previous highest ID through afterMessageIds and the Actor stops at that checkpoint instead of charging for old rows again. Overlapping preview pages are deduplicated before billing. maxMessagesPerChannel is a hard paid-row cap.

📤 What you get

• channel title, description, avatar, verification, subscribers, and public photo/video/link counters;
• stable message IDs, canonical URLs, ISO timestamps, edited state, author signature, text, and original HTML;
• parsed and raw view counts plus individual reactions and total reaction count;
• forwarded-message source and context;
• direct public photo and video CDN URLs, combined media list, media flags, and video duration label;
• structured link previews with destination, site, title, description, and image;
• extracted links, mentions, and hashtags;
• date and keyword filters, per-channel result caps, deduplication, and reusable incremental checkpoints.

🚀 Popular use cases

• news and announcement monitoring;
• competitor and campaign watchlists;
• view/reaction trend snapshots;
• media archiving, link-preview, mention and hashtag extraction;
• scheduled ingestion into Slack, Sheets, databases and AI pipelines.

⚙️ Example input

{"channels":["durov","telegram"],"maxMessagesPerChannel":100,"includeChannelInfo":true,"afterMessageIds":{},"keyword":""}

📥 Complete input reference

Field	Type	Default	Purpose
channels	array	["telegram"]	Usernames, @handles, or public t.me channel URLs. Private invite links are rejected.
maxMessagesPerChannel	integer	100	Hard per-channel cap on paid message rows.
afterMessageIds	object	{}	Optional channel-to-message-ID map. Only messages newer than each checkpoint are emitted.
dateFrom	string	—	Optional inclusive YYYY-MM-DD date filter.
dateTo	string	—	Optional inclusive YYYY-MM-DD date filter.
keyword	string	""	Optional case-insensitive text filter applied after retrieval.
includeChannelInfo	boolean	true	Emit one channel profile row for every accessible channel.
requestDelayMs	integer	350	Polite delay between Telegram page requests.

📤 Complete output reference

The default dataset is exportable as JSON, CSV, Excel, XML or RSS. Fields remain stable for scheduled runs and API integrations.

Field	Type
recordType	string
channelUsername	string
channelTitle	string / null
channelUrl	string
subscriberCount	integer / null
subscriberCountRaw	string / null
channelDescription	string / null
channelAvatarUrl	string / null
photoCount	integer / null
videoCount	integer / null
linkCount	integer / null
verified	boolean
messageId	integer / null
messageUrl	string / null
postedAt	string / null
edited	boolean
text	string / null
textHtml	string / null
views	integer / null
viewsRaw	string / null
reactions	array
reactionCount	integer
isForwarded	boolean
forwardedFrom	string / null
hasPhoto	boolean
hasVideo	boolean
hasDocument	boolean
authorSignature	string / null
photoUrls	array
videoUrls	array
mediaUrls	array
videoDurationText	string / null
linkPreview	object / null
links	array
mentions	array
hashtags	array
scrapedAt	string

🔌 API & integrations

Run this Actor from the Apify Console, API, CLI, MCP, Make, Zapier or n8n. Replace the Actor identifier and token in this template:

curl -X POST "https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/telegram-public-channel-monitor/runs?token=YOUR_TOKEN" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{}'

Results are stored in the run's default dataset and can be forwarded with Apify webhooks or scheduled Tasks.

🔎 Search keywords

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💰 Pricing

Billing is tied to successfully delivered result events. Empty, filtered, duplicate or failed records are not charged as results. Open the Pricing tab for the current per-event rate before starting a run, and use Apify's maximum-charge control to enforce a hard budget.