Telegram Channel Scraper: Posts, Views & Subscribers

Scrape public Telegram channels into clean rows: every post with its text, date, views, reactions, media, links, hashtags, mentions, forwards and replies, plus one row per channel with the exact subscriber count and the photo / video / link counters. Search inside a channel by keyword, limit to a date range, or run it on a schedule with Only new posts to monitor hundreds of channels hourly or daily.

No login, no API key, no phone number, no Telegram account.

What you can do with it

• Crypto and finance monitoring — watch signal, exchange and news channels; track views and reactions per post.
• News and media tracking — collect every post of news channels for a day, a week or a date range.
• Threat intelligence and brand monitoring — search channels for a keyword, a ticker, a domain or a hashtag.
• Marketing and competitor research — compare channels by subscribers, posting frequency, views and engagement.
• Archiving and research — page back through a channel's history, or jump straight to a past period.

How it works

1. Add channels: a name (durov, @durov) or a link (https://t.me/durov, https://t.me/s/durov). A link to a single post (https://t.me/durov/532) saves just that post.
2. Choose how many posts per channel (newest first), and optionally a keyword, a date range or Only new posts.
3. Run it. Each post is one row; each channel adds one channel row (turn Include channel info off if you only want posts).

Telegram has no search across all channels, so the keyword search runs inside the channels you list.

Input

Example:

{
  "channels": ["durov", "https://t.me/cointelegraph"],
  "maxPostsPerChannel": 50,
  "keyword": "bitcoin",
  "dateFrom": "30 days",
  "includeChannelInfo": true
}

Output

A post row (real, trimmed):

{
  "type": "post",
  "channelUsername": "durov",
  "channelTitle": "Pavel Durov",
  "channelId": "1006503122",
  "channelSubscribers": 10210963,
  "postId": 548,
  "url": "https://t.me/durov/548",
  "date": "2026-09-11T16:04:02+00:00",
  "isEdited": false,
  "authorSignature": "Pavel Durov",
  "text": "🤝 Telegram has become the sponsor of Codeforces — the largest competitive programming platform in the world. …",
  "views": 3810000,
  "viewsText": "3.81M",
  "reactionsTotal": 79300,
  "reactions": [
    { "emoji": "⭐", "emojiId": null, "count": 21900, "isPaid": true },
    { "emoji": null, "emojiId": "5399847211989246390", "count": 36600, "isPaid": false }
  ],
  "mediaType": "link",
  "mediaCount": 0,
  "media": [],
  "linkPreview": {
    "url": "https://codeforces.com/blog/entry/156620",
    "siteName": "Codeforces",
    "title": "Telegram Returns as Title Sponsor of Codeforces!",
    "description": "Hi, Codeforces!"
  },
  "links": ["https://codeforces.com/blog/entry/156620"],
  "hashtags": [],
  "mentions": [],
  "forwardedFromName": null,
  "forwardedFromType": null,
  "replyToPostId": null,
  "keyword": null,
  "scrapedAt": "2026-10-29T04:43:55.669Z"
}

A channel row (real):

{
  "type": "channel",
  "channelUsername": "durov",
  "channelTitle": "Pavel Durov",
  "channelId": "1006503122",
  "channelSubscribers": 10210963,
  "subscribersText": "10 210 963",
  "url": "https://t.me/durov",
  "description": "Founder of Telegram.",
  "isVerified": true,
  "isScam": false,
  "isFake": false,
  "photosCount": 102,
  "videosCount": 47,
  "linksCount": 200,
  "previewEnabled": true
}

All fields:

type, channelUsername, channelTitle, channelId, channelSubscribers, postId, url, date, isEdited, authorSignature, text, views, viewsText, reactionsTotal, reactions[], mediaType, mediaCount, media[], imageUrl, linkPreview, links[], hashtags[], mentions[], buttons[], poll, location, forwardedFromName, forwardedFromUrl, forwardedFromType, replyToPostId, replyToUrl, replyToText, keyword, description, photoUrl, isVerified, isScam, isFake, subscribersText, photosCount, videosCount, filesCount, linksCount, previewEnabled, scrapedAt

mediaType is one of

text, photo, video, gif, round_video, voice, audio, document, sticker, poll, location, contact, link, album, unsupported, other

Pricing

Pay per event — you only pay for what you get:

Example: 10 channels × 100 posts with channel info = 1,000 posts + 10 channel rows ≈ $0.82. A "nothing new" check of 100 channels with Only new posts ≈ $0.012.

Tips

• Monitoring: schedule the actor hourly or daily with Only new posts on and Include channel info off — each run then saves only the posts published since the last one.
• Big histories: raise Max posts per channel; the run pages back about 20 posts at a time.
• A past period: set Posts up to (and Posts from) — the actor jumps to that period instead of reading everything newer.
• Media links expire after a while; download what you need soon after the run, or turn Include media URLs off.
• Channels whose owners turned off the web preview, groups, bots and private (invite-only) channels have no public posts; they are listed in the run's status message, and preview-disabled channels still get their channel row.

FAQ

Is it legal to scrape Telegram? This actor reads only what Telegram itself publishes openly on the web for public channels — the same pages anyone can open in a browser without an account. Scraping publicly available data is generally considered legal, but how you use it matters: personal data in posts can fall under laws such as the GDPR or CCPA. If you are unsure about your use case, consult a lawyer.

Does it access any private data? No. It never logs in and cannot see private channels, groups, members, phone numbers or messages between people. It reads public channel posts only. When a post was forwarded from a person's account, that person's name is not saved — only channel sources are named. Shared contact cards are reported as the type "contact" without their details.

Why does a channel return no posts? Either it is not a public channel (a group, a bot, a person or a private invite link), or its owner turned off the web preview. The status message names each such input. Preview-disabled channels still get their channel row.

Can I search all of Telegram for a keyword? Telegram offers no public search across all channels. List the channels you care about and use Keyword in channel — the search runs inside each of them.

Why does a keyword return fewer posts than I asked for? The keyword uses Telegram's own search, and the run saves every match Telegram returns. On very large, busy channels Telegram's web search only reaches back over the channel's more recent posts, so older matches may not appear. To collect older posts, leave Keyword in channel empty, set a date range, and filter the results yourself.

How fresh is the data? Live: every run reads the channels at that moment, including current view and reaction counts.

What happens if Telegram slows down or refuses requests? The run waits and retries on new IP addresses. If Telegram keeps refusing, it stops cleanly with the posts already saved and a plain status message — you are never charged for posts you did not get.