Telegram Channel Intel — Public Post Stats

Read any public Telegram channel like an API — view counts, post text, publish dates and subscriber count — without a bot token, a login, or a Telethon session. One HTTP fetch per channel, straight from the same public preview page Telegram already serves to search engines and link-preview bots.

What you get

• Up to ~20 recent posts per channel — text, view count and publish date for each, plus the channel's display name and subscriber count.
• No bot token, no login, no MTProto session. Reads the public SSR preview page (t.me/s/<channel>) that a search engine or a link-preview bot already sees, unauthenticated.
• Flexible input. Bare username, @handle, or a full t.me/... URL all work — one entry per channel.
• Private and nonexistent channels return gracefully. A channel with no public preview comes back as a single found: false row with the reason, at no charge.
• Built for lists. Concurrency up to 50, so a watchlist of channels is a single run.
• Runs on Apify: schedule it, monitor it, call it from the API or the MCP server, export to JSON, CSV or Excel, or push results straight into your own pipeline.

How to run it

1. Click Try for free — no card needed on the free plan.
2. Paste your channel usernames into Channels, one per line.
3. Press Start. Results appear in the dataset — one row per post — read them in the UI, pull them from the API, or have a webhook push them onward.

Pricing

Pay-per-event: $0.005 per run start + $0.002 per post row returned. No monthly seat, no minimum. 100 posts cost about $0.21; 1,000 posts about $2.01.

A channel with no public preview — private, nonexistent, or preview disabled — is still returned, as one row with found: false and the reason, and it is not charged for. You pay for posts actually pulled, not for channels checked.

Input

Field	Required	What it does
items	yes	Public Telegram channel usernames to read — bare (durov), @handle, or a full t.me/... URL. Up to 100 per run.
maxConcurrency	no	How many channels to fetch at once, 1–50 (default 10).

{
    "items": ["durov", "telegram"]
}

Output

One row per post. This is a real row from a real run:

{
    "input": "durov",
    "channel": "durov",
    "channelTitle": "Pavel Durov",
    "subscribers": "11.5M",
    "postId": "durov/514",
    "text": "🇦🇪 Dubai is full of traffic and crowds again. Already missing the Iranian fireworks — they helped clear the city of the easily impressed.The UAE’s air defenses proved excellent under fire. For 0% tax, we get better protection than Europeans paying 50%.",
    "views": "3.46M",
    "date": "2026-05-16T13:57:49+00:00",
    "found": true,
    "scrapedAt": "2026-07-26T13:23:11.211Z"
}

Field	What it means
channel	The channel username you passed
channelTitle	Channel display name
subscribers	Subscriber count as shown on the channel header (e.g. 11.5M)
postId	Telegram's own post identifier (channel/messageId)
text	First ~400 characters of the post text
views	View count as shown on the post (e.g. 3.46M)
date	ISO publish date/time
found	Whether the post was read successfully
found: false	A single row with error explaining why (no public preview) — not billed

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FAQ

Does it need a bot token or login? No — it reads Telegram's public preview page, the same one an unauthenticated search engine or link-preview bot sees.

How many posts do I get per channel? Up to the ~20 most recent shown on the preview page. For deeper history, run it again later — each run reflects what's currently live.

Does it work on private channels? No — only channels with a public username and public preview enabled.

Can I call it from an AI agent? Yes — a standard Apify Actor, callable from the Apify API, the SDK, or the Apify MCP server.

What this is NOT. It does not read private channels, does not go deeper than the preview page's ~20 recent posts, and does not use a phone-number-based Telegram session — everything comes from the same unauthenticated page anyone can already open in a browser.

Found a wrong result, or need a check we don't run? Open an issue on this Actor's page.

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