# Telegram Channel Scraper: Posts, Views, Reactions & Subscribers (`spellzcode/telegram-channel-scraper`) Actor

Get posts from any public Telegram channel without a phone number, bot token or login: text, date, views, reactions, links, hashtags, photos and forwards, plus the channel's subscriber count. Filter by date and keyword. $0.50 per 1,000 posts.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/spellzcode/telegram-channel-scraper.md
- **Developed by:** [Mårten Fitzback](https://apify.com/spellzcode) (community)
- **Categories:** Social media, News, AI
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

from $0.35 / 1,000 post returneds

This Actor is paid per event. You are not charged for the Apify platform usage, but only a fixed price for specific events.
Since this Actor supports Apify Store discounts, the price gets lower the higher subscription plan you have.

Learn more: https://docs.apify.com/actors/running/actors-in-store.md#pay-per-event

## What's an Apify Actor?

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In Batch mode, an Actor accepts a well-defined JSON input, performs an action which can take anything from a few seconds to a few hours,
and optionally produces a well-defined JSON output, datasets with results, or files in key-value store.
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Apify vocabulary and the platform model are defined once, in the agent quickstart at https://apify.com/agents.md.

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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 Scraper: Posts, Views, Reactions & Subscribers

Get the posts of any public Telegram channel as a clean table, with **no phone number, no bot token and no Telegram login**:

- **Post text** with line breaks and emoji, plus links, hashtags and @mentions found in it
- **Date**, post link and whether the post was edited
- **Views** and **reactions** (each emoji with its count, plus paid Star reactions)
- **Media**: photo URLs, and whether the post has a video, file or poll
- **Forwarded from** (when the post was forwarded from another chat)
- **Channel details** on every row: title and subscriber count

Filter by date range and keywords. You pay only for posts returned.

### Output

One item per post:

```json
{
  "channel": "durov",
  "postId": 548,
  "url": "https://t.me/durov/548",
  "date": "2026-09-11T16:04:02.000Z",
  "edited": false,
  "author": "Pavel Durov",
  "text": "Telegram has become the sponsor of Codeforces ...",
  "views": 3380000,
  "reactions": [{ "type": "stars", "emoji": null, "customEmojiId": null, "count": 21900 }, { "type": "emoji", "emoji": "👍", "customEmojiId": null, "count": 9920 }],
  "forwardedFrom": null,
  "photos": [],
  "hasVideo": false,
  "hasDocument": false,
  "hasPoll": false,
  "linkPreview": "https://codeforces.com/blog/entry/156620",
  "links": ["https://codeforces.com/blog/entry/156620"],
  "hashtags": [],
  "mentions": [],
  "channelTitle": "Pavel Durov",
  "channelSubscribers": 10300000
}
```

Channel details (title, verified badge, subscribers, photo, video and link counts, description) are also saved once per channel in the run's `CHANNELS` record.

### Input

```json
{
  "channels": ["durov", "https://t.me/telegram"],
  "maxPostsPerChannel": 500,
  "dateFrom": "2026-09-01",
  "keywords": ["update", "launch"]
}
```

### Typical uses

- **Market and crypto research:** collect announcements and engagement from project and news channels.
- **Brand and competitor monitoring:** track what channels in your niche post and which posts get the most views.
- **Media and OSINT research:** archive public channel posts with dates and links.
- **AI and data pipelines:** feed fresh posts into summaries, alerts or sentiment models on a schedule.

### Pricing

$0.50 per 1,000 posts ($0.0005 per post). No extra start fee beyond Apify's standard $0.00005.

1,000 posts cost $0.50. Apify's paid plans get a discount; the Pricing tab shows yours. Channels without a public page cost nothing.

### Good to know

- This tool reads Telegram's public web preview (t.me/s/channel), the same page anyone can open in a browser. It works for **public channels** only, not private channels, groups or chats.
- Some channels turn their web preview off. Those are listed in the run's `UNAVAILABLE_CHANNELS` record and are not charged.
- Telegram shows rounded numbers on the public page (for example 1.02M views), so views and reactions are rounded the same way.
- Reactions with Telegram's custom emoji have no standard character; they are returned with their `customEmojiId`.
- Comments are not on the public page and are not included.

### Questions

#### Can I run it on a schedule?

Yes. Save your input as a task, set `dateFrom` or a small `maxPostsPerChannel`, and add an Apify schedule, for example daily.

#### How do I get the results into Excel or Google Sheets?

Download the results as Excel, CSV or JSON from the Output tab, or connect Apify to Make, Zapier, n8n or Google Sheets.

#### Something looks wrong

Open a report under the Issues tab with the channel and input you used.

# Actor input Schema

## `channels` (type: `array`):

Public channel usernames or links, for example durov, @durov or https://t.me/durov. Private invite links (t.me/+...) have no public page and are skipped.

## `maxPostsPerChannel` (type: `integer`):

Newest posts first. Telegram's public page goes back to the channel's first post.

## `dateFrom` (type: `string`):

Only posts on or after this date (YYYY-MM-DD). Scraping stops at the first older post, so a date range is also the fastest way to limit a run.

## `dateTo` (type: `string`):

Only posts on or before this date (YYYY-MM-DD).

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

Keep only posts whose text contains at least one of these words (not case sensitive). Leave empty for all posts. You pay only for posts returned.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "channels": [
    "durov",
    "telegram"
  ],
  "maxPostsPerChannel": 100
}
```

# Actor output Schema

## `posts` (type: `string`):

One item per post: text, date, views, reactions, links, media and the channel's subscriber count.

# 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 = {
    "channels": [
        "durov",
        "telegram"
    ]
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("spellzcode/telegram-channel-scraper").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 = { "channels": [
        "durov",
        "telegram",
    ] }

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("spellzcode/telegram-channel-scraper").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 '{
  "channels": [
    "durov",
    "telegram"
  ]
}' |
apify call spellzcode/telegram-channel-scraper --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

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

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/6Z01Ei9kWCLTEaq3m/builds/GU8VVFjQaqIokFhw9/openapi.json