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Telegram Channel Scraper (No Login)

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Telegram Channel Scraper (No Login)

Scrape public Telegram channel messages without API credentials. No API key, no phone number, no Telegram account needed.

Extracts messages, views, reactions, media URLs, forwarded-from info, and channel metadata from t.me/s/{channel} server-rendered preview pages.

Features

  • No credentials required -- works on any public Telegram channel via server-rendered HTML
  • Full message data -- text, HTML, date, view count, author signature, direct link
  • Media extraction -- photo URLs and video URLs from each message
  • Reactions -- emoji reactions with counts (e.g., thumbs_up 1.26K)
  • Forwarded messages -- source channel name and URL for forwarded posts
  • Channel metadata -- title, description, subscriber count, profile photo URL
  • Pagination -- automatically loads older messages page by page
  • Multi-channel -- scrape multiple channels in a single run

Input

Field Type Default Description
channelUsernames string[] ["durov"] Channel usernames to scrape (without @)
maxItems integer 50 Max messages per channel (0 = no limit)
includeChannelInfo boolean true Include channel metadata in each record

Output Fields

Each record contains:

Field Description
channelUsername Channel username (e.g., durov)
channelTitle Channel display title
channelDescription Channel description text
channelPhotoUrl Channel profile photo URL
channelSubscribers Subscriber count (e.g., 10.2M)
messageId Numeric message ID
messageDate ISO 8601 date (e.g., 2026-04-09T14:09:27+00:00)
messageText Plain text content
messageHtml HTML-formatted content
messageViews View count (e.g., 3.69M)
messageAuthor Post author signature (if enabled on channel)
messageLink Direct t.me link to the message
messageMediaType photo, video, or none
messageMediaUrl URL of attached media
messageReactions Array of reaction strings (e.g., ["thumbs_up 1.26K", "heart 106"])
messageForwardedFrom Source channel name (if forwarded)
messageForwardedFromUrl Original message URL (if forwarded)

Example Output

{
  "channelUsername": "durov",
  "channelTitle": "Pavel Durov",
  "channelSubscribers": "10.2M",
  "messageId": 482,
  "messageDate": "2026-04-09T14:09:27+00:00",
  "messageText": "Telegram has reached a milestone...",
  "messageViews": "2.25M",
  "messageAuthor": "Pavel Durov",
  "messageLink": "https://t.me/durov/482",
  "messageMediaType": "none",
  "messageMediaUrl": "",
  "messageReactions": ["thumbs_up 3.77K", "heart 380"],
  "messageForwardedFrom": "",
  "messageForwardedFromUrl": ""
}

How It Works

  1. Fetches https://t.me/s/{channel} which returns the latest ~20 messages as server-rendered HTML
  2. Extracts message data using CSS selectors (Cheerio)
  3. Paginates backwards using ?before={message_id} to load older messages
  4. Stops when maxItems is reached or no more messages are available

Limitations

  • Public channels only -- private channels and groups are not accessible via t.me/s/
  • View counts -- displayed as formatted strings (e.g., "3.69M"), not raw numbers
  • Media -- extracts URLs but does not download media files
  • Reactions -- returned as formatted strings, not structured objects (per Apify dataset schema rules)
  • Rate limiting -- t.me rate-limits by IP; for large-scale scraping (1000+ messages), consider using proxy rotation

Cost

Pay-per-event pricing: $0.10 per actor start + $0.001 per message scraped.

Need More Features?

If you need additional fields, date range filtering, or a custom scraper for another platform, file an issue or get in touch. We customize scrapers to suit your needs.

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