# Telegram Channels Search & Analytics (no scraping) (`tgmarket/telegram-channels-search`) Actor

Find Telegram channels by topic, language, country and size, with subscribers, views, ER, reach, growth and ad contacts. 3.9M+ channels from the TG Market catalog — no Telegram account, no scraping, no bans.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/tgmarket/telegram-channels-search.md
- **Developed by:** [John Rico](https://apify.com/tgmarket) (community)
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

Pay per usage

This Actor is paid per platform usage. The Actor is free to use, and you only pay for the Apify platform usage, which gets cheaper the higher subscription plan you have.

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

## What's an Apify Actor?

An Actor is a serverless cloud program that runs on the Apify platform. It has two run modes.
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.
In Standby mode, an Actor provides a web server which can be used as a website, API, or an MCP server.

Apify vocabulary and the platform model are defined once, in the agent quickstart at https://apify.com/agents.md.

## How to integrate an Actor?

If asked about integration, you help developers integrate Actors into their projects.
You adapt to their stack and deliver integrations that are safe, well-documented, and production-ready.

Do not guess an integration path. Every one of them is in the agent quickstart at https://apify.com/agents.md: the Apify MCP server, Agent Skills with the Apify CLI, the JavaScript and Python clients, the REST API, and the account-free path for an agent with no human to sign in. It also carries the rule on stating cost before the first paid run.

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

Each client library has reference documentation the quickstart does not restate: [JavaScript/TypeScript](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs.md) (`npm install apify-client`) and [Python](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs.md) (`pip install apify-client`).

# README

## Telegram Channels Search & Analytics — no scraping, no bans

Find Telegram channels and groups by **keywords, topic, language, country and size** and get clean metrics for each:
subscribers, average views, engagement rate, 24h/48h reach, posting frequency, citation index — and optionally
**ad contacts and ad prices**.

Data comes from the [TG Market](https://tgmarket.io) catalog of **3.9M+ Telegram channels and groups**, refreshed
continuously. You do not need a Telegram account, phone number or proxies, and nothing is scraped on your behalf,
so there are no FloodWaits and no banned accounts.

### What you get

| field | example |
|---|---|
| `username`, `link`, `title`, `description` | `durov`, `https://t.me/durov`, … |
| `subscribers` | 10 400 000 |
| `avg_views`, `reach_24h`, `daily_reach`, `reach_48h` | views per post and reach estimates |
| `er`, `err_24h` | engagement rate and 24h reach rate, % |
| `growth_7d`, `growth_30d` | subscriber growth |
| `posts_30d`, `posting_frequency`, `last_post_at` | activity |
| `citation_index`, `cited_by` | how often other channels mention it |
| `language`, `country`, `region`, `city`, `categories` | language, geo and ~400 topics |
| `fraud_score` | 0–1 score of fake-activity signals |
| `ads_contacts`, `ad_price`, `ad_price_est` *(optional)* | who to contact for ads and what a post costs |

### Use cases

- **Influencer and ad buying**: every crypto, exam-prep or fitness channel in India with 10k+ subscribers.
- **Lead lists**: channel admins with ad contacts in your niche and country.
- **Bots and apps**: seed your Telegram bot or directory with quality channels instead of scraping them yourself.
- **Research**: datasets of channels by language and topic with engagement metrics.

### Input example

```json
{
  "keywords": ["bitcoin", "crypto signals"],
  "languages": ["en"],
  "countries": ["IN", "NG"],
  "minSubscribers": 5000,
  "activeWithinDays": 14,
  "includeAdContacts": true,
  "maxResults": 500
}
```

Topics are slugs such as `cryptocurrency`, `trading`, `exam_prep`, `fitness`, `vacancies`, `ai_tools`.
The full list is at https://tgmarket.io/api/v1/categories.

### Pricing

The Actor is free to run. Without a key you get a **free trial of 20 channels per run** (biggest first) —
enough to check the data for your niche. For full results, add your TG Market API key (`apiKey`): up to
10,000 channels per run, billed to your TG Market balance (about $6 per 1,000 channels with metrics and reach).

**Need 10k+ rows, history or a recurring feed?** A one-off export of any size (CSV, XLSX, Parquet, JSON) is
cheaper on [tgmarket.io](https://tgmarket.io): from **$5 per 1,000 channels**, with volume discounts. There is also a
[REST API](https://tgmarket.io/docs) and an [MCP server](https://tgmarket.io/docs/mcp) for Claude, Cursor and ChatGPT.

### Getting a key

1. Sign up at [tgmarket.io](https://tgmarket.io/?utm_source=apify\&utm_medium=readme) and top up credits.
2. Open **API** in your account and create a key.
3. Paste it into the `apiKey` field. Channels you paid for in the last 30 days are free to fetch again.

Support: support@tgmarket.io

# Actor input Schema

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

Any of these words or phrases in title, description or posts (OR). Leave empty to filter only by the fields below.

## `categories` (type: `array`):

Topic slugs, e.g. cryptocurrency, trading, exam_prep, fitness. Full list: https://tgmarket.io/api/v1/categories

## `languages` (type: `array`):

ISO 639-1 codes: en, hi, es, ar, fa, ru…

## `countries` (type: `array`):

ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 codes: IN, US, NG, BR…

## `kind` (type: `string`):

Channels, groups or both.

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

Skip channels with fewer subscribers.

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

Skip channels with more subscribers. Empty = no limit.

## `minAvgViews` (type: `integer`):

Skip channels whose average post gets fewer views.

## `activeWithinDays` (type: `integer`):

Only channels that posted within this many days.

## `includeAdContacts` (type: `boolean`):

Adds ad contacts, share of ad posts, ad price from the description and an estimated post price.

## `maxResults` (type: `integer`):

How many channels to return (up to 10,000 per run).

## `apiKey` (type: `string`):

Without a key you get a free trial of 20 channels per run. Add your key (sign up at tgmarket.io → API) to get up to 10,000 channels per run, billed to your TG Market balance.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "keywords": [
    "crypto"
  ],
  "languages": [
    "en"
  ],
  "kind": "all",
  "minSubscribers": 1000,
  "activeWithinDays": 30,
  "includeAdContacts": false,
  "maxResults": 100
}
```

# Actor output Schema

## `channels` (type: `string`):

No description

# 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"
    ],
    "languages": [
        "en"
    ]
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("tgmarket/telegram-channels-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"],
    "languages": ["en"],
}

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("tgmarket/telegram-channels-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"
  ],
  "languages": [
    "en"
  ]
}' |
apify call tgmarket/telegram-channels-search --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,tgmarket/telegram-channels-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/MGn7JVGPIYdazT2CM/builds/k5NLnimWzczvz5DL9/openapi.json