Telegram Channel Scraper - Posts, Views & Reactions

Scrape public Telegram channels without a Telegram account, API keys or a phone number. For every post you get the text, date, views, reactions, photos, video info, links, hashtags, mentions, forwards, replies and link previews. You also get a channel profile with title, description, verified badge, subscriber count and media counts.

Search inside a channel by keyword or hashtag, stop at a date, or turn on Monitor mode and schedule it to get only posts published since the last run.

Plain HTTP on Telegram's public t.me/s/ web preview. Fast and cheap.

What you can do with it

• Crypto, trading and news monitoring: follow signal and news channels and push new posts to Slack, Discord, Sheets or your app.
• Brand and threat monitoring: search channels for your brand, product or keywords.
• Market and media research: compare channels by subscribers, views per post and engagement.
• Content archiving and analytics: export a channel's full public history with views and reactions.
• AI agents and LLMs (ChatGPT, Claude, Cursor via Apify MCP): "Summarize the last 20 posts from @durov." The text is clean, with emojis and line breaks kept.

Input

Field	Description
channels	Usernames or links: durov, @telegram, https://t.me/telegram.
maxPostsPerChannel	Newest first (default 20). 0 = full history.
searchQuery	Optional keyword or #hashtag to search within each channel.
postedAfter	Stop when posts are older than this date.
includeChannelInfo	One profile row per channel (default on).
onlyNewPosts	Monitor mode: only posts newer than the last run.

Example:

{
  "channels": ["telegram", "durov"],
  "maxPostsPerChannel": 50,
  "postedAfter": "2026-01-01"
}

Output

Post

{
  "resultType": "post",
  "channel": "telegram",
  "postId": 460,
  "url": "https://t.me/telegram/460",
  "date": "2026-08-26T19:12:34+00:00",
  "text": "For all the info from today's update ...",
  "views": 2150000,
  "reactions": [{ "emoji": "👍", "count": 54400 }, { "emoji": "⭐", "count": 6760, "type": "stars" }],
  "reactionsCount": 61160,
  "photos": [],
  "hasVideo": true,
  "videoDuration": "0:12",
  "links": ["https://telegram.org/blog/..."],
  "hashtags": [],
  "mentions": [],
  "forwardedFrom": null,
  "linkPreview": { "url": "https://telegram.org/blog/...", "site": "Telegram", "title": "Welcome Messages, Buttons in Messages ..." }
}

Channel

{
  "resultType": "channel",
  "channel": "durov",
  "title": "Pavel Durov",
  "description": "Founder of Telegram.",
  "verified": true,
  "subscribers": 10200000,
  "photos": 102,
  "videos": 47,
  "links": 200
}

Custom (premium) emoji reactions come back as type: "custom_emoji" with their emojiId, because Telegram's web preview doesn't show the glyph. Channels that don't exist, are private, or have the web preview turned off return one free error row.

Use it from ChatGPT, Claude & AI agents

This Actor works as a tool for AI assistants through the Apify MCP server, and the inputs are designed so an agent can fill them in.

• Claude (claude.ai / Desktop), ChatGPT, Cursor, VS Code, Windsurf: add the MCP server URL below as a custom connector / MCP server and sign in with your Apify account:

  https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=get_anything/telegram-channel-scraper
  

• Claude Desktop / Cursor config file:

  { "mcpServers": { "apify": { "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=get_anything/telegram-channel-scraper" } } }
  

• Any LLM framework or GPT Action (REST): one call runs the Actor and returns the results as JSON:

  POST https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/get_anything~telegram-channel-scraper/run-sync-get-dataset-items?token=YOUR_TOKEN
  

• No-code: Make, Zapier, n8n, LangChain and LlamaIndex have Apify integrations.

Then just ask, for example: "Summarize the last 20 posts from the @telegram channel and list the links shared."

Pricing

Pay per event: you pay per post returned and per channel profile. Error rows are free. See the Pricing tab for current prices.

FAQ

Can it scrape private channels or groups? No. Only public channels that have a t.me/s/<name> web preview.

Do I need a Telegram account? No.

Do I need a proxy? Usually not.