Telegram Channel Scraper

Read public Telegram channels without a login, a bot token or a phone number — post text, view counts, media, links and dates, plus the channel's own profile.

Telegram publishes a web preview for every public channel. This Actor reads it and pages backwards through the history.

What you can do with it

• Track news and announcement channels — many companies and projects post there first.
• Watch what a channel promotes — onlyPostsWithLinks keeps only posts that link somewhere.
• Find what resonates — every post carries its view count.
• Archive a channel — page back through the history up to your limit.

Input

Field	What it does
channels	Usernames or links: durov, @telegram, https://t.me/bloomberg
mode	Posts, channel profile, or both
maxPostsPerChannel	How far back to page
postedAfter	Stop once posts get older than this date
searchTerms	Only posts containing these words
minViews	Only posts above a view count
onlyPostsWithLinks	Only posts that link out
onlyNewPosts	Monitoring mode — only posts added since the last run

Output

One row per post (and one per channel in both mode):

{
  "type": "post",
  "channel": "durov",
  "messageId": 548,
  "url": "https://t.me/durov/548",
  "text": "🤝 Telegram has become the sponsor of Codeforces — the largest competitive programming platform in the world.\n\n ⚡CodeForces organizes over 100 coding contests every year and has 4 m…",
  "publishedAt": "2026-09-11T16:04:02+00:00",
  "views": 1320000,
  "forwardedFrom": null,
  "replyToUrl": null,
  "hasPhoto": false,
  "hasVideo": false,
  "mediaUrls": [],
  "linkPreviewUrl": "https://codeforces.com/blog/entry/156620",
  "linkPreviewTitle": "Telegram Returns as Title Sponsor of Codeforces!",
  "linkPreviewSite": "Codeforces",
  "outlinks": [
    "https://codeforces.com/blog/entry/156620"
  ],
  "authorSignature": "Pavel Durov",
  "scrapedAt": "2026-09-20T12:39:53.811Z"
}

Channel rows carry title, description, subscribers, photos, videos, links and the avatar URL.

Speed and cost

75 posts from 3 channels took 8 seconds. You are charged per post returned, and the keyword, view and date filters run before you pay.

Monitoring mode

Turn on onlyNewPosts and the Actor remembers the posts it already returned for each channel. On a schedule it returns only what was posted since — a cheap way to follow a set of channels.

Notes

• Public channels only. Private channels and group chats have no web preview, and this Actor will report them as not found.
• Comments on posts are not part of the web preview, so they are not included.

Related Actors

• Threads Scraper — profiles and posts on Meta's Threads
• Google News Scraper — articles with the real source URL
• YouTube Comments Scraper — reactions with likes and replies