# Telegram Channel Scraper (`velvety_bedbug/telegram-channel-scraper`) Actor

Scrape public Telegram channels: every post with text, date, view count, photos, videos, links, forwards and replies, plus channel title, description and subscriber count. No API key, no login, no phone number.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/velvety\_bedbug/telegram-channel-scraper.md
- **Developed by:** [Peters Bugs](https://apify.com/velvety_bedbug) (community)
- **Categories:** Lead generation, Automation, Developer tools
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

from $2.50 / 1,000 records

This Actor is paid per event. You are not charged for the Apify platform usage, but only a fixed price for specific events.

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

## What's an Apify Actor?

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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.
Actors are written with capital "A".

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For usage examples, see the [API](#api) section below.

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# README

## Telegram Channel Scraper — posts, views, media & channel stats

Scrape any **public Telegram channel** without an API key, login or phone number. Every post comes
with its text (plain and HTML), date, view count, photos, videos, links, forward source and reply
target. Add the channel's own record for title, description, subscriber count and media counts.

### Input

| Field | Default | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| `channels` | `["durov"]` | Usernames or t.me links |
| `maxItems` | `10` | Posts per channel, newest first, up to the channel's whole history |
| `includeChannelInfo` | `true` | One extra record per channel with subscribers and counts |

### Output

```json
{ "type": "channel", "channel": "durov", "channelTitle": "Pavel Durov", "channelUrl": "https://t.me/durov", "description": "Thoughts from the CEO of Telegram", "subscribers": 10900000, "subscribersText": "10.9M", "photosCount": 102, "videosCount": 46, "linksCount": 199, "isVerified": true }
{ "type": "post", "channel": "durov", "postId": 527, "postUrl": "https://t.me/durov/527", "text": "…", "textHtml": "…", "date": "2026-09-05T14:02:11+00:00", "views": 1240000, "viewsText": "1.2M", "photos": ["https://cdn4.telegram-cdn.org/file/…"], "videos": [], "links": ["https://…"], "hasMedia": true, "forwardedFrom": null, "replyToUrl": null, "author": null }
```

### Use cases

Crypto, news and OSINT monitoring, brand and competitor tracking, content research, archiving, and
building alert pipelines on channels you don't own.

### Notes

- Works only for channels with a public web preview (most public channels). Private channels and
  channels that disabled the preview return a warning, not a failure.
- View counts are Telegram's rounded figures ("1.2M"); the numeric field expands them.

# Actor input Schema

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

Public channel usernames or t.me links, e.g. durov, telegram, https://t.me/bloomberg.

## `maxItems` (type: `integer`):

Newest first. Each page holds about 20 posts.

## `includeChannelInfo` (type: `boolean`):

Emit one record per channel with title, description, subscriber count and media counts.

## `proxyConfiguration` (type: `object`):

Optional; t.me answers most IPs.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "channels": [
    "durov"
  ],
  "maxItems": 10,
  "includeChannelInfo": true,
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": true
  }
}
```

# Actor output Schema

## `records` (type: `string`):

Dataset of posts and channel records (JSON).

# 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 = {};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("velvety_bedbug/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 = {}

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("velvety_bedbug/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 '{}' |
apify call velvety_bedbug/telegram-channel-scraper --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,velvety_bedbug/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/sV7k6XdyME9BosohF/builds/egWWjn9IxORc6KPUE/openapi.json