Telegram Public Channel Posts, Views and Links

This telegram scraper reads a public telegram channel and returns telegram posts with views, links, and media addresses from the signed-out web preview.

It opens https://t.me/s/{channel} the same way a signed-out browser does. It does not log in.

Input

Field	What it is
Channels	Public channel names or t.me / t.me/s/ links. Default durov.
Since date	Optional. Only posts on or after this ISO date.
Maximum posts per channel	Default 50, hard ceiling 1000. Older pages are loaded with ?before= on the lowest post number, one second apart.
Maximum rows	Spend cap. Default 100, hard ceiling 5000.
Proxy configuration	Apify Proxy. Off by default.

Output

One row per post. A channel that does not exist, or that has no public preview, returns one error row instead of invented posts.

Field	What it holds
channel	Username you asked for
channel_title	Display name on the preview
post_id	Numeric post id
post_url	https://t.me/{channel}/{id}
date	ISO timestamp from the page
text	Post text. Emails and phone numbers are replaced with [redacted].
views	View count as a number (12.3K becomes 12300)
links	http(s) links inside the post text
media_type	photo, video, document, voice, or sticker when that media is on the page
media_urls	Addresses shown for that media
forwarded_from	Forwarded-from channel name when shown
reply_to	Replied-to post id when shown
edited	true when the preview prints edited
error / message	Set only when that channel could not be read

Example row

From a live local run on 2026-09-20, input durov, maximum 5 posts. The run returned 5 rows. One of them:

{
  "channel": "durov",
  "channel_title": "Pavel Durov",
  "post_id": 548,
  "post_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 in the world.\n⚡CodeForces organizes over 100 coding contests every year and has 4 million contestants signed up.\n🌱 Since 2010, I've supported Codeforces through the companies I started.\n🆚 But this year will be special. Its founder Mike wants to bring Codeforces to the next level — and we'll be happy to help him do that 🤝",
  "views": 1350000,
  "links": [
    "https://codeforces.com/blog/entry/156620"
  ],
  "media_type": null,
  "media_urls": [],
  "forwarded_from": null,
  "reply_to": null,
  "edited": false,
  "error": null,
  "message": null,
  "http_status": null,
  "source_url": "https://t.me/s/durov",
  "fetched_at": "2026-09-21T00:56:16Z"
}

Pricing

Pay per result. Each post row (and each honest error row) is one result. There is no start fee in this package. A run that returns no rows costs nothing. Maximum rows is the spend cap.

Limits

On this machine on 2026-09-20, one signed-out preview page for durov held 20 posts and a 5-row run used one HTTP request. Older posts are on ?before={lowest post number}, one request per second. That is the only volume this package has measured.

What this does not do

• It does not log in, use a phone number, a session, or the Telegram Bot API.
• It does not read groups, member lists, comment authors, or anything about individual users.
• It does not return emails, phone numbers, or home addresses.
• It does not open private channels or channels that turned off the public preview. Those produce one error row.
• It does not invent text, views, dates, or media when the page omitted them.
• It does not solve a CAPTCHA or otherwise dodge a block.
• Telegram's terms prohibit data scraping. A 200 is not permission. See SOURCE_TERMS.md.

Refunds and support

Refunds: if a run returns zero post rows for a valid public channel, email operations@ustechautomations.com within 7 days and we refund that run. Support: same address, replies within 2 business days.