Telegram Channel Scraper — Posts, Views, Reactions, Media and Subscribers

Scrape public Telegram channels without the Telegram API. Enter channel names or links and export every post with its text, view count, reactions, photos, videos, links and date, plus each channel's subscriber count. No Telegram account, no phone number, no api_id. Pay per post, no start fee.

⭐ Whole channel history · views and reactions · photos, videos, polls and files · search inside channels · date filters · subscriber counts · free channel row · API and MCP ready

What does Telegram Channel Scraper do?

Telegram publishes a web preview of every public channel. This Actor reads that preview and turns it into clean rows, one per post.

You enter	You get
A channel name or link, such as durov or https://t.me/durov	The channel's posts, newest first, as far back as you ask
A link to one post, such as https://t.me/durov/528	That post
Channels plus keywords	Only the posts that match, using Telegram's own in-channel search
Channels plus a date window	Only the posts from that period

Each channel also returns one free row with its title, description, subscriber count and verified status.

What data does it extract?

Post fields

Field	Description
text	Full post text, with line breaks
date	Publication time, ISO 8601 with time zone
views	View count
reactions, reactionsTotal	Each reaction with its count, and the total
url, id	Link to the post and its number in the channel
channel, channelTitle	Channel username and display name
author	Post signature, when the channel signs posts
links, hashtags, mentions	Links, hashtags and @mentions found in the text
isEdited, isForwarded, forwardedFrom	Edit flag, and the original source of forwarded posts
replyToUrl	The post this one replies to

Media fields

Field	Description
mediaType	photo, video, album, document, voice, poll or sticker
photos	Image URLs
videos	Video URL, thumbnail and duration
document	File name and size
poll	Question, options with percentages, and voter count
linkPreview	URL, site name, title, description and image of the link card

Channel fields

Field	Description
title, description	Channel name and bio
subscribers	Subscriber count
photos, videos, files, links	How many of each the channel has posted
isVerified, isScam	Telegram's verified and scam labels
avatar, url	Channel picture and link

A Telegram API alternative

Telegram's API is built for apps that act as a user. To read a channel with it you register an application for an api_id and api_hash, sign in with a real phone number, keep a session file safe, and handle flood-wait limits. Libraries such as Telethon and Pyrogram wrap the same steps, and a number used too aggressively can be limited or banned.

This Actor is a Telegram API alternative for public channels. It works without the Telegram API: no api_id, no phone number, no session, no account at risk.

	Telegram API, Telethon, Pyrogram	This Actor
Setup	Register an app, sign in with a phone number	Paste channel names
Account risk	Flood waits and bans hit your number	No account is used
Private channels and groups	Yes, if your account is a member	No, public channels only
Output	API objects	Flat rows: CSV, Excel, JSON

Why use this Telegram scraper

Views and reactions on every post

Engagement numbers come with each post, so you can rank a channel's content or compare channels without a second tool.

Whole history or just what is new

Set a high limit to archive a channel from its first post. Or set Only posts newer than to 24 hours and schedule the Actor: collection stops at the first older post, so monitoring runs finish in seconds.

Search inside channels

Give keywords or hashtags and only matching posts are returned. A post that matches several keywords is delivered and billed once.

No start fee, and the channel row is free

Starting a run costs nothing. You pay per post delivered. Channel details, filtered-out posts and channels that cannot be read are free.

Nothing to configure

No proxies to buy, no cookies, no login. Paste channels and press Start.

How to scrape a Telegram channel

1. Open the Actor and enter Channels or post links, one per line.
2. Set Max posts per channel.
3. Optionally add Search inside the channels, a date window, Minimum views or Only posts with media.
4. Press Start. Rows appear in the dataset as they are collected.
5. Export as CSV, Excel, JSON or XML, or read the dataset through the API.

💡 Dates accept a calendar date such as 2026-09-01 or a period such as 24 hours, 7 days, 2 weeks or 3 months.

Input example

{
  "channels": ["durov", "https://t.me/telegram"],
  "maxMessagesPerChannel": 500,
  "newerThan": "30 days",
  "minViews": 1000,
  "includeChannelInfo": true
}

Field	Type	Description
channels	array	Required. Usernames, channel links or single-post links.
maxMessagesPerChannel	integer	Posts per channel, newest first. Default 100.
searchQueries	array	Keywords or hashtags to search inside each channel.
newerThan	string	Only posts after this date or within this period.
olderThan	string	Only posts before this date.
minViews	integer	Skip posts with fewer views.
onlyWithMedia	boolean	Keep only posts with media.
includeChannelInfo	boolean	Add a free row per channel. Default on.
maxItems	integer	Cap on posts for the whole run. 0 means no cap.

Output example

A post row:

{
  "type": "message",
  "channel": "newsdesk",
  "channelTitle": "News Desk",
  "id": 3225,
  "url": "https://t.me/newsdesk/3225",
  "date": "2026-09-22T03:26:17+00:00",
  "text": "Markets opened higher after the central bank held rates.\nFull story below.",
  "views": 48200,
  "reactionsTotal": 344,
  "reactions": [{"count": 96, "emoji": "🔥"}, {"count": 89, "emoji": "❤"}],
  "mediaType": "photo",
  "photos": ["https://cdn4.telesco.pe/file/example.jpg"],
  "links": ["https://example.com/markets"],
  "hashtags": ["#markets"],
  "linkPreview": {"url": "https://example.com/markets", "siteName": "Example", "title": "Markets open higher"},
  "isEdited": false,
  "isForwarded": false,
  "source": "newsdesk"
}

A channel row:

{
  "type": "channel",
  "channel": "newsdesk",
  "url": "https://t.me/newsdesk",
  "title": "News Desk",
  "description": "Business news as it happens.",
  "subscribers": 187000,
  "photos": 800,
  "videos": 49,
  "links": 3180,
  "isVerified": true
}

Pricing

Pay per post. No start fee, no monthly rental, no minimum.

Event	Charged for	Price
message-scraped	each post delivered	$1.99 / 1,000
-	channel rows and error rows	free

You export	You pay
1,000 posts	$1.99
10,000 posts	$19.90
100,000 posts	$199.00

You are charged right after each batch lands in your dataset, so a run you stop early costs only what it delivered. Posts removed by your filters are free.

Use cases

News and media monitoring

Follow news channels and official sources in one feed. Schedule hourly runs with a 24-hour window and send new posts to Slack, a sheet or your own dashboard.

Brand and keyword tracking

Search a list of channels for your brand, product or competitor names. Each match comes with views and reactions, so you can see which mentions travelled.

Crypto and market intelligence

Announcement and signal channels move fast. Collect posts with timestamps and engagement to study what was said, when, and how the audience reacted.

Channel analytics and competitor research

Compare channels by subscribers, posting frequency, average views and reactions per post. Find a channel's best-performing content by sorting on views.

OSINT and academic research

Archive the full public history of channels for analysis, with stable post IDs, exact timestamps and forward sources for tracing how content spreads.

AI datasets

Feed channel posts into summarisation, classification or retrieval pipelines. Text keeps its line breaks and links are extracted for you.

FAQ

Do I need a Telegram account, phone number or API key? No. It works without the Telegram API and without logging in.

Is scraping Telegram legal? This is general information, not legal advice. The Actor collects only posts that channel owners have published publicly and that Telegram shows to anyone without an account. It cannot reach private channels, groups, members or messages. Whether your use is lawful depends on where you are and what you do with the data. Posts can contain personal data and copyrighted material, and Telegram's terms apply to automated use. Collect only what you need, do not republish personal data or copyrighted media, and ask a lawyer before building a commercial product on the data.

Can it scrape private channels, groups or chats? No. Only public channels have a web preview. Private channels, invite links, groups, bots and user profiles return a free error row.

Can it get channel members or subscribers' names? No. Telegram does not publish who subscribes to a channel. You get the subscriber count.

Does it return comments on posts? No. Comments live in a linked discussion group, which the web preview does not show.

How far back can it go? To the first post of the channel. Set Max posts per channel high enough and the Actor pages back until the start.

Why is a view count rounded, such as 1.5M? Telegram's preview abbreviates large numbers, so 18.9M is returned as 18,900,000. Counts below 1,000 are exact.

Can it download the photos and videos? It returns the media URLs. They are hosted by Telegram and can be downloaded with any HTTP client. Links to large videos can expire, so fetch them soon after the run.

A post says it must be opened in Telegram. Why? Some posts, such as very large files or restricted content, are not shown in the preview. They are returned with needsApp: true and whatever text is available.

How fast is it? About 1,000 posts per minute per run. A channel with 10,000 posts takes about ten minutes.

Can I run it on a schedule? Yes. Use a short Only posts newer than window and de-duplicate on url.

Integrations

• Apify API - start runs and fetch datasets from Python, Node.js, cURL or any HTTP client.
• MCP server - call this Actor as a tool from Claude, Cursor, ChatGPT agents and any MCP client.
• No-code - Make, Zapier, n8n, Google Sheets, Airtable, Slack, webhooks.
• Schedules - run hourly or daily for monitoring, appending to the same dataset.
• Exports - JSON, JSONL, CSV, Excel (XLSX), XML, HTML table, RSS.

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Not affiliated with, endorsed by or sponsored by Telegram. This Actor reads only the public web preview of public channels and does not log in. You are responsible for using the data in line with applicable laws and Telegram's terms.