Telegram Channel Scraper — Extract Messages, Reactions & Media from Public Channels

Scrape messages, reactions, media, and metadata from any public Telegram channel. No API key, no phone number, no Telegram account required. Works via HTTP — fast, cheap, and reliable.

⚡ Why this Telegram scraper?

Most Telegram scrapers require API credentials, phone number verification, or expensive browser automation. This one is different:

• 💰 Affordable: Just $1.00 per 1,000 messages. No hidden costs.
• 🚀 Fastest: Pure HTTP scraping — no browser, no Playwright, no Puppeteer. 350+ messages in under 25 seconds.
• 🔑 No credentials needed: No Telegram API key, no phone number, no account login. Zero setup.
• 🛡️ Most reliable: No headless browser means no anti-bot blocks, no timeouts, no flaky runs.
• 📊 Rich data: 15 fields per message including reactions, media URLs, link previews, forwards, and replies.
• 🔍 Built-in search: Use Telegram's native search to find messages by keyword across full channel history.

📦 What data can you extract?

Each message includes 15 data fields:

• 📝 Content: Full message text, message URL
• 🕐 Metadata: Timestamp, message ID, edit status
• 👤 Author: Display name (for channels with signatures)
• 👁️ Engagement: View count, emoji reactions with counts (including paid stars)
• 🖼️ Media: Photos, videos, and documents with CDN URLs
• 🔗 Link previews: Title, description, image, and URL of embedded links
• 💬 Threads: Reply-to info, forwarded-from source
• 📡 Channel info: Name, @username, subscriber count

💲 How much does it cost?

The Telegram scraper uses pay-per-event pricing — you only pay for what you scrape:

• $1.00 per 1,000 messages

Example costs:

What you scrape	Messages	Cost
1 channel, last 50 messages	50	$0.05
5 channels, 20 messages each	100	$0.10
10 channels, 100 messages each	1,000	$1.00
Full archive of a large channel	5,000	$5.00

🎯 Use cases

• 📊 Channel analytics: Analyze which posts get the most views and reactions
• 🔍 Competitive intelligence: Monitor competitor Telegram channels
• 📡 Media monitoring: Track news channels and crypto/finance groups
• 📈 Market research: Analyze trends across industry Telegram channels
• 📰 Data journalism: Build datasets of Telegram content for investigation
• 🎓 Academic research: Collect public channel data for communication studies
• 🔎 OSINT: Search for specific topics across multiple channels
• 🎯 Lead generation: Find active channels and creators in your niche
• 📚 Content archival: Back up full channel histories before they disappear

📥 Input

Field	Type	Description	Default
channelUsernames	array	Channel usernames or t.me URLs (required).	—
maxMessages	number	Max messages per channel. Set 0 for all messages.	100
startDate	string	Only messages after this date (YYYY-MM-DD).	—
endDate	string	Only messages before this date (YYYY-MM-DD).	—
searchQuery	string	Search keyword within channel history.	—
includeMedia	boolean	Include photo/video/document URLs.	true

💡 Example input

{
    "channelUsernames": [
        "durov",
        "https://t.me/telegram",
        "@contest"
    ],
    "maxMessages": 100,
    "includeMedia": true
}

📤 Output

Each message is stored as a JSON object with 15 fields:

{
    "messageId": 475,
    "messageUrl": "https://t.me/durov/475",
    "text": "Today marks the 12th anniversary of Telegram...",
    "timestamp": "2025-08-14T13:45:00+00:00",
    "views": 5290000,
    "isEdited": false,
    "authorName": null,
    "reactions": [
        { "emoji": "❤️", "count": "86K" },
        { "emoji": "🔥", "count": "42K" },
        { "emoji": "stars", "count": "39.3K" }
    ],
    "media": [
        {
            "type": "photo",
            "url": "https://cdn4.telesco.pe/...",
            "thumbnailUrl": null,
            "duration": null
        }
    ],
    "linkPreview": null,
    "replyTo": null,
    "forwardFrom": null,
    "channelName": "Durov's Channel",
    "channelUsername": "durov",
    "channelSubscribers": "12.5M"
}

You can download results in JSON, CSV, Excel, or connect via API.

💡 Tips and notes

• 🌐 Flexible input: Accepts @username, bare usernames, or full https://t.me/channel URLs.
• 🔍 Search: Use searchQuery to find messages containing specific keywords. Uses Telegram's built-in search.
• 📅 Date filtering: Combine startDate and endDate to scrape messages within a specific time window.
• 📚 Full archives: Set maxMessages to 0 to fetch every message a channel has ever posted.
• 📦 Bulk scraping: Pass multiple channels in a single run to scrape them all sequentially.
• 🔒 Private channels: Only public channels with web preview enabled are supported. Private channels and those with disabled web preview will be skipped with a warning.
• ⚡ Speed: ~750 messages/min sequential. Full @durov channel (475 posts) scraped in 21 seconds.
• 🖼️ Media URLs: CDN URLs for photos/videos may expire after some time. Download promptly if needed.
• 😀 Reactions: Custom emoji show as numeric IDs (emoji:12345) rather than Unicode characters. Paid stars show as stars.
• 📊 Subscriber counts: Reported as approximate strings (e.g., "10.5M"), matching Telegram's display.