Telegram Channel Scraper & Analyzer: posts, views and what a channel publishes (no login)

Get any public Telegram channel's posts without an account or API key: each post's text, views, reactions, date, links, photos and video, plus the channel's subscribers, media counts and description. As many posts as you want, newest first, or only those after a date.

Turn on the insights report and each channel also gets what it publishes: posts counted as news, opinion, promotion or question, the themes, the sentiment, posts per day, median views, views per subscriber, the top posts and the domains it links to most. Built for crypto and market research, media monitoring, competitor and brand tracking and AI agents.

What you get

Field	What it holds
Post rows	text, views, reactions, date, author, forwardedFrom, photos, hasVideo, videoLength, links, edited, id, url, channel
Channel row	title, verified, subscribers, photos, videos, links, files, description, photo, postsRead
Insights row (optional)	summary, kinds (news, opinion, promotion, question: counted), themes with counts, sentiment, postsPerDay, averageViews, medianViews, viewsPerSubscriber, mediaShare, linkShare, topDomains, topPosts, and the main points of each kind with example posts
SUMMARY	what each channel returned, notes and what was charged

What people use it for

• Crypto and market research: what the big channels push, and how many people see it
• Media monitoring: every post of the channels you follow, as a table
• Competitor tracking: a rival's announcements and promotions
• Engagement benchmarks: median views and views per subscriber, channel by channel
• Link research: the sites a channel sends its readers to
• AI agents: Telegram channels in any workflow

How to use it

1. Add channels: usernames, @handles or t.me links.
2. Set Posts per channel (and Only posts after if you want).
3. Keep Insights report on, click Start, then open the Posts or Insights table.

Input

Field	Example	Notes
Channels	telegram	Usernames, @handles or t.me links
Posts per channel	50	Up to 5,000
Only posts after	2026-09-01	Optional
Insights report	on	One report per channel

Output

Each result is one row in the run's dataset (download it as JSON, CSV, Excel, XML or HTML, or read it through the API). An example row (values shortened):

{
  "kind": "post",
  "channel": "example_channel",
  "id": 460,
  "url": "https://t.me/example_channel/460",
  "text": "For all the info from today's update and a look back at 13 years of Telegram features — ch…",
  "views": 1930000,
  "date": "2026-08-26T19:12:34+00:00",
  "links": [
    "https://telegram.org/blog/welcome-messages-buttons-TG-13"
  ],
  "hasVideo": false
}

With insights on, each channel also gets one insights row. From runs on 17 October 2026 (45 posts each of two large channels, names removed): one posted 0.29 times a day with a median of 4.67 million views (0.45 views per subscriber), 32 news posts, 6 opinions, 3 promotions, themes "Product updates" 10 and "Crypto" 8; the other 0.16 a day, median 1.93 million views, 35 news posts and 10 promotions. A record named SUMMARY in the run's key-value store says what each channel returned and what was charged.

Pricing

• $0.0006 per post ($0.60 per 1,000)
• $0.03 per insights report (one per channel, only when asked for; failed reports are free)
• Channel rows are free; private channels and groups (no web preview) cost nothing
• The AI model that writes the report (Google's Gemini Flash) is billed by Apify at its exact cost: about $0.01 a report on 50 to 150 posts (measured 17 October 2026); Apify charges free-plan accounts 10 times that

What typical jobs cost at the list price:

Job	Cost
100 posts of one channel	$0.06
100 posts with the insights report	$0.09
10 channels, 200 posts each, with reports	$1.50
1,000 posts	$0.60

On Apify's Scale and Business plans the per-event prices are lower (Store discounts). Set Maximum cost per run and the Actor stops cleanly when it is reached: you never pay more than that.

Tips

• Use Only posts after for a daily or weekly schedule: you pay only for the new posts.
• Compare viewsPerSubscriber across channels: it shows which audiences are real.
• Read topDomains to see where a channel sends its readers.

Use it through the API

Python

from apify_client import ApifyClient

client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_APIFY_TOKEN>")
run = client.actor("zaiq/telegram-channel-scraper").call(run_input={"channels": ["telegram"], "maxPostsPerChannel": 200})
for row in client.dataset(run["defaultDatasetId"]).iterate_items():
    print(row)

JavaScript

import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

const client = new ApifyClient({ token: '<YOUR_APIFY_TOKEN>' });
const run = await client.actor('zaiq/telegram-channel-scraper').call({"channels": ["telegram"], "maxPostsPerChannel": 200});
const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();

HTTP (one call, results back)

curl -X POST 'https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/zaiq~telegram-channel-scraper/run-sync-get-dataset-items?token=<YOUR_APIFY_TOKEN>' \
  -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  -d '{"channels": ["telegram"], "maxPostsPerChannel": 200}'

Integrations and schedules

• Schedules: run it every hour, day or week from the Apify Console (Schedules) and keep a history of results.
• Make, Zapier, n8n, Google Sheets, Slack, Airtable: connect it through Apify's integrations, or send each finished run to a webhook.
• Datasets: results stay in the run's dataset; export them or read them by API whenever you need them.

Use it with AI agents (MCP)

Add Apify's MCP server (https://mcp.apify.com) to Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, VS Code or any MCP client. The agent can find this Actor and run it for you: ask it for "get the last 200 posts of these Telegram channels and tell me what each one promotes". AI agents can also pay for runs directly through Apify's agentic payments.

Limits

• Public channels only: private channels, groups and chats have no web preview and are not read.
• Comments under posts are not shown in Telegram's web preview.
• Reaction counts are summed (the emoji themselves are not listed).
• The report's counts come from the AI's label for each post: close, not perfect.

FAQ

Do I need a Telegram account or API key?

No. The Actor reads Telegram's own public web preview (t.me/s/...), which anyone can open.

How far back can I go?

As far as the channel's history goes; set Posts per channel or Only posts after.

Can it read groups?

No, only public channels: groups have no web preview.

Can I skip the report?

Yes: turn Insights report off and pay only per post.

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Support

Questions, a site that changed, or a field you need? Open an issue on this Actor's Issues tab: we answer there, usually within a day.

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