Telegram Channel Scraper - Posts, Views, Reactions & Media (No Login)

Telegram Channel Scraper extracts posts from public Telegram channels with no Telegram account, no phone number, no bot token and no API keys. Give it channel usernames or t.me links and get every post with its text (plain + HTML), date, views, reactions, forwarded-from, reply-to, photos, video thumbnails, file names, link previews, polls and the edited flag. Add one channel info row per channel with the title, description, exact subscriber count, photo and verified / scam / fake flags.

It reads Telegram's own public web preview (t.me/s/<channel>), the page anyone can open in a browser. Pagination goes as deep as the channel history: thousands of posts per channel, filtered by date range or keywords.

💸 $1 per 1,000 posts with views, reactions and media, and $2 per 1,000 channel-info rows (the top Telegram channel scrapers in the Store charge a median $3.50 per 1,000). No login or phone number needed. Try it on Apify's free plan ($5 of monthly credit, no credit card).

Sample output

Channel	Date	Views	Reactions	Text
durov	2026-10-11	1,140,000	28,400	✨ Designers × AI 🆕 The mockup er…
durov	2026-10-10	1,410,000	116,430	💸 If your wallet doesn’t look lik…
durov	2026-09-11	3,460,000	78,640	🤝 Telegram has become the sponsor…

What data do you get?

• 📝 Post text as clean plain text (emoji and line breaks kept) and as HTML (bold, links, custom emoji)
• 📅 Date (UTC), views, edited flag, author signature
• ❤️ Reactions: each emoji (or custom emoji ID), its count and paid Star reactions, plus a total
• 🔁 Forwarded from (channel name, username, original post) and reply to (post ID, author, quoted text)
• 🖼️ Media: photo URLs, albums, video and GIF thumbnails (+ video URL when shown), round videos, voice, stickers, documents with file name and size, locations
• 🔗 Link previews (site, title, description, image), links, #hashtags and @mentions in the text
• 📊 Polls with options and percentages
• 📣 Channel info: title, description, exact subscriber count, photo, verified / scam / fake labels, number of photos, videos, files and links, newest post

Use cases

• Media monitoring & news tracking: follow news, crypto, finance or tech channels and pull new posts on a schedule
• Crypto & trading signals: collect posts from signal and announcement channels with views and reactions
• Market and competitor research: measure reach (views, reactions, subscribers) of channels in your niche
• OSINT and research: archive public channels for analysis (sentiment, topic modelling, fact-checking)
• Lead lists of channels: check which usernames are channels, groups, users or bots, with subscriber counts

How to scrape a Telegram channel

1. Click Try for free / Start.
2. Enter one or more channels: durov, @telegram, https://t.me/s/bbcrussian, https://t.me/cointelegraph.
3. Set Max posts per channel and/or a date range (2026-01-01 to 2026-03-31, or From date: 7 days).
4. Optionally add keywords to keep only matching posts.
5. Run and download the data as JSON, CSV, Excel or HTML, or use the API, Make, Zapier, n8n or the Apify MCP server.

Input example

{
    "channels": ["durov", "https://t.me/s/telegram", "@cointelegraph"],
    "maxPostsPerChannel": 500,
    "dateFrom": "2026-09-01",
    "dateTo": "2026-09-30",
    "keywords": ["bitcoin", "ETF"],
    "includeChannelInfo": true
}

• Max posts per channel: newest posts first. 0 = no limit (use it with From date).
• Date range: YYYY-MM-DD, ISO date-time or relative (24 hours, 7 days, 3 months). For an old range the Actor jumps straight to that point in the history instead of paging through everything newer.
• Keywords: Contains mode scans the history and keeps posts containing any keyword (or all, with Require all keywords). Telegram search mode uses Telegram's own search, which matches word forms but returns only about 20 of the newest matches per keyword.
• A post link (https://t.me/durov/400) starts at that post and goes back in time.

Output example

{
    "type": "post",
    "channel": "durov",
    "channelTitle": "Pavel Durov",
    "postId": 529,
    "url": "https://t.me/durov/529",
    "date": "2026-06-16T15:05:29Z",
    "text": "🚫 India’s IT ministry banned Telegram for one week because some users shared leaked exam questions.\n\n...",
    "textHtml": "<tg-emoji emoji-id=\"5240241223632954241\">...</tg-emoji> India’s IT ministry banned Telegram ...",
    "views": 9710000,
    "viewsText": "9.71M",
    "isEdited": false,
    "author": "Pavel Durov",
    "forwardedFrom": null,
    "replyTo": null,
    "mediaType": "text",
    "media": [],
    "photoUrls": [],
    "videoThumbnailUrls": [],
    "documentNames": [],
    "linkPreview": null,
    "links": [],
    "hashtags": [],
    "mentions": [],
    "reactions": [
        { "emoji": "⭐", "customEmojiId": null, "isPaid": true, "count": 6280, "countText": "6.28K" },
        { "emoji": null, "customEmojiId": "5265077361648368841", "isPaid": false, "count": 69600, "countText": "69.6K" }
    ],
    "reactionsTotal": 120838,
    "scrapedAt": "2026-10-09T01:33:36Z"
}

Channel info row:

{
    "type": "channel",
    "status": "ok",
    "channel": "durov",
    "url": "https://t.me/durov",
    "title": "Pavel Durov",
    "description": "Founder of Telegram.",
    "subscribers": 10464256,
    "subscribersText": "10.5M",
    "photoUrl": "https://cdn4.telesco.pe/file/...jpg",
    "isVerified": true,
    "isScam": false,
    "isFake": false,
    "photosCount": 102,
    "videosCount": 46,
    "linksCount": 200,
    "lastPostId": 548,
    "lastPostDate": "2026-09-11T16:04:02Z"
}

Channels that can't be scraped (free rows)

You get one free row with type: "error" and a status explaining why:

status	meaning
no_web_preview	The channel exists but its owner disabled the public preview (title and subscribers are still returned)
private	Invite link (t.me/+..., joinchat) or t.me/c/... link to a private chat
not_found	No public chat with this username (deleted, banned, private or mistyped)
is_group / is_user / is_bot	The username is a group, a person or a bot, not a channel
invalid_input	Not a valid username or t.me link
no_posts / no_matches	The channel has no visible posts / no posts matched your keywords

Pricing

This Actor uses pay-per-event pricing. You pay per post saved (post-result) and per channel info row (channel-result). Error rows, channels that can't be scraped, and posts removed by your date or keyword filters are free. Check the Pricing tab for current prices.

Cap your spending with the run's maximum cost or maximum paid results: the Actor stops cleanly at the limit.

How it works

• The Actor loads Telegram's public web preview https://t.me/s/<channel> and pages back with ?before=<post id>, 20 posts per page. No browser runs, so it's fast and cheap: about 1,000 posts in 10-20 seconds.
• Large channels are split into parallel page streams; date ranges use a binary search over post IDs to jump to the right point.
• Requests go direct first. Only if Telegram rate-limits the run does it switch to the Apify datacenter proxy (configurable).
• Exact subscriber counts come from the channel's t.me/<channel> page (the preview shows rounded numbers like 10.5M).
• A run summary (key-value store record SUMMARY) lists every channel with its status, posts and pages.

Limitations

• Only public channels with the web preview enabled. Private channels, groups, comments and member lists need a logged-in Telegram account and are not supported.
• Views and reaction counts are rounded by Telegram on large numbers (18.9M, 4.71K); the Actor converts them to numbers.
• Some post types (stories, giveaways, paid media, some audio) show "Please open Telegram to view this post" in the preview; they are returned with mediaType: "unsupported" and whatever metadata is visible.
• Media URLs point to Telegram's CDN and are signed: download files soon after scraping if you need them.
• Telegram search mode returns at most ~20 newest matches per keyword (Telegram's limit); use Contains mode for deep keyword scans.

Related tools

Monitor the same topics on YouTube and in Google search interest.

• YouTube Transcript Scraper: transcripts and subtitles from videos, channels and searches
• Google Trends Scraper: interest over time, by region, related queries and Trending Now

All of these are maintained by the same developer and export flat JSON, CSV or Excel, so you can feed one tool's dataset into the next.

FAQ

Do I need a Telegram account, phone number or API ID? No. The Actor only reads pages that are public on the web.

How far back can it go? To the first post of the channel, as long as the posts are visible in the web preview.

Can I scrape private channels or groups? No. Only public channels expose a web preview.

Is scraping Telegram legal? The Actor only reads pages Telegram publishes openly on the web, without logging in. However, Telegram's Terms of Service and its Content Licensing and AI Scraping Terms restrict access to user-generated content beyond ordinary use and explicitly forbid using Telegram data to train or develop AI / machine-learning models. Posts are also copyrighted by their authors and can contain personal data (GDPR and similar laws apply). You are responsible for making sure your use is lawful and compatible with these terms; if in doubt, consult a lawyer. Do not use this Actor to build AI training datasets.

Can I monitor channels for new posts? Yes: schedule the Actor with dateFrom: "24 hours" (or 1 hour) and connect the dataset to Slack, Google Sheets, a webhook or your app.