Telegram Channel Scraper

Export posts from any public Telegram channel into a spreadsheet, JSON, or your own app. No Telegram account, phone number, bot token, or API key required.

Press Start to see it work. The default input scrapes @telegram and @durov straight away.

What you get

One row per post, newest first, with the fields people actually ask for:

Field	Example
date	2026-09-11T16:04:02+00:00
text	Full post text, emoji and line breaks preserved
views	688000 (also viewsRaw: "688K")
totalReactions	146385, plus a per-emoji breakdown
url	https://t.me/durov/548
photoUrls / videoUrls	Direct media links
linkPreview	Title, description, site name of any shared link
forwardedFrom / replyToUrl	Where a forward or reply came from

An optional summary row per channel carries the title, description, subscriber count, verified badge, and post/photo/video counts.

What people use it for

• Competitor and market monitoring. Track what rival channels publish and which posts actually land, using views and reactions.
• Feeding AI agents and RAG pipelines. Clean post text with dates and links, ready to embed. One call returns a whole channel history.
• News and OSINT research. Pull a dated archive of a channel's posts and filter to the window you care about.
• Crypto and trading signals. Watch call channels and capture every post with its timestamp.
• Content analytics. Find which posts, formats, and times get the most views in a niche.
• Backups. Keep a durable copy of a channel you rely on.

Input

Setting	What it does
Telegram channels	Any format: telegram, @durov, t.me/durov, https://t.me/s/durov
Max messages per channel	Default 100. Paginates back through history as far as you ask.
Only messages after / before	Optional date window. The run stops early once it passes your start date, so you are not billed for history you did not want.
Include reactions	On by default
Include a channel summary row	On by default
Proxy	Off by default. Telegram is normally reachable without one.

Bad input does not waste a run. A misspelled channel, a private invite link, or an unparseable date each produce a plain-English message, and the other channels in your list keep going.

Sample output

{
  "type": "message",
  "requestedChannel": "durov",
  "channel": "durov",
  "messageId": 548,
  "url": "https://t.me/durov/548",
  "date": "2026-09-11T16:04:02+00:00",
  "text": "🤝 Telegram has become the sponsor of Codeforces — the largest competitive programming platform...",
  "authorName": "Pavel Durov",
  "views": 688000,
  "viewsRaw": "688K",
  "totalReactions": 146385,
  "reactions": [
    { "emoji": "❤", "count": 73, "isPaid": false }
  ],
  "mediaTypes": [],
  "links": ["https://codeforces.com/blog/entry/156620"],
  "linkPreview": {
    "url": "https://codeforces.com/blog/entry/156620",
    "title": "Telegram Returns as Title Sponsor of Codeforces!",
    "siteName": "Codeforces"
  }
}

What it cannot do, and why

Being straight about this saves you a wasted run:

• Only public channels. If a channel has turned off its web preview, nothing can read it without a logged-in account. This Actor deliberately does not use one. You get a clear message saying so rather than an empty dataset.
• No private groups or invite links. t.me/+... and t.me/joinchat/... are rejected up front.
• No subscriber lists or member data. Telegram does not publish them, and this Actor does not attempt to collect personal data.
• View and reaction counts above 1,000 are rounded by Telegram itself ("688K"). The exact figure is not published. views is the expanded number and viewsRaw keeps Telegram's original string so you can tell.
• Custom emoji reactions have no text label on the web, so those rows carry customEmojiId instead of an emoji character.

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Notes

Reads the same public pages you can open in a browser at t.me/s/<channel>. It collects channel content, not personal data.

Something broken or a field you need? Open an issue on this Actor and I will take a look.