# Telegram Channel Scraper - Public Posts, No Login (`logiover/telegram-channel-scraper`) Actor

Scrape any public Telegram channel's full post history with no login, bot token or API key. Text, views, dates, media, forwards + channel stats.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/logiover/telegram-channel-scraper.md
- **Developed by:** [Logiover](https://apify.com/logiover) (community)
- **Categories:** Social media, News
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

from $1.99 / 1,000 results

This Actor is paid per event. You are not charged for the Apify platform usage, but only a fixed price for specific events.
Since this Actor supports Apify Store discounts, the price gets lower the higher subscription plan you have.

Learn more: https://docs.apify.com/platform/actors/running/actors-in-store#pay-per-event

## What's an Apify Actor?

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In Batch mode, an Actor accepts a well-defined JSON input, performs an action which can take anything from a few seconds to a few hours,
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For usage examples, see the [API](#api) section below.

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# README

## Telegram Channel Scraper — Public Posts, No Login or API Key

Scrape the **entire post history of any public Telegram channel** — **no login, no bot token, no API key, no phone number.** This actor reads Telegram's own public web preview at `t.me/s/<channel>` and pages backwards through the whole timeline.

Perfect for OSINT, crypto‑signal and news monitoring, research, and archiving — without the friction of the official Bot/MTProto APIs (which require tokens, joining the channel, or a phone number).

### What you get per post

```json
{
  "channel": "durov",
  "channelTitle": "Du Rove's Channel",
  "channelSubscribers": 1200000,
  "postId": 512,
  "url": "https://t.me/durov/512",
  "text": "Full post text, with newlines preserved…",
  "date": "2026-05-14T12:38:57+00:00",
  "views": 2990000,
  "author": "Pavel Durov",
  "outboundLinks": ["https://…"],
  "photos": ["https://cdn4.telegram-cdn.org/file/…"],
  "hasVideo": false,
  "linkPreview": { "url": "https://…", "siteName": "…", "title": "…", "description": "…" },
  "forwardedFrom": null,
  "isReply": false,
  "source": "telegram-channel"
}
```

### Example inputs

**Full history of several channels:**

```json
{ "channels": ["durov", "telegram", "https://t.me/bloomberg"], "maxPostsPerChannel": 0 }
```

**Search inside a channel:**

```json
{ "channels": ["durov"], "searchQuery": "privacy" }
```

### Features

- 📜 **Full backward pagination** — the channel's whole available history, 20 posts at a time.
- 🔎 **In‑channel keyword search** via `searchQuery`.
- 👁️ **View counts**, dates, author signatures.
- 🖼️ **Media** — photo URLs, video presence, documents, polls.
- 🔗 **Link previews** and outbound links parsed out.
- ↪️ **Forwards & replies** flagged.
- 📊 **Channel metadata** — title and subscriber count on every row.

### Use cases

- **Crypto / trading** — archive signal channels and mine calls with view counts.
- **News & OSINT** — monitor and back‑fill public channels at scale.
- **Brand & topic monitoring** — track mentions across many channels.
- **Research & datasets** — build Telegram post corpora keyless.

### Notes & limits

- Works only on **public** channels (those with a `t.me/s/<name>` preview). Private channels, groups and bots have no public web preview.
- Telegram serves posts 20 at a time; very large channels take many pages — use `maxPostsPerChannel` to cap.
- View counts and reactions reflect what the public preview shows.

### FAQ

**Do I need a Telegram account, bot token, or API ID?** No. Nothing. It reads the public web preview.

**Can it scrape private channels or groups?** No — only public channels with a web preview.

**How far back does it go?** As far as the channel's public preview allows — typically the full history.

***

*Not affiliated with Telegram. "Telegram" is a trademark of Telegram FZ‑LLC. This tool reads publicly available pages.*

### 📝 Changelog

#### 2026-08-01

- Completed the August 2026 full health check: verified empty/programmatic default, Console UI default, and two source-informed alternative inputs on Apify.
- Confirmed successful live execution, non-empty structured output, dataset-field/type integrity, and logical sample quality within the 5-minute quality window.
- Declared 20 dataset fields from typed live cloud samples so the output contract is no longer an empty placeholder.
- Declared 20 nullable dataset fields from typed live cloud samples so the output contract is no longer an empty placeholder or brittle to sparse modes.

# Actor input Schema

## `channels` (type: `array`):

Public Telegram channel usernames or t.me links. Example: \['durov', 'telegram', 'https://t.me/durov']. Private channels/groups have no public web preview and cannot be scraped.

## `searchQuery` (type: `string`):

If set, returns posts matching this keyword inside each channel instead of the full history. Leave empty to scrape everything.

## `maxPostsPerChannel` (type: `integer`):

Cap per channel. 0 = the channel's entire available history (can be thousands of posts).

## `maxItems` (type: `integer`):

Hard cap on total posts across all channels. 0 = unlimited.

## `proxyConfiguration` (type: `object`):

Proxy settings. OFF by default — t.me/s is a light public endpoint that is fastest over direct egress. Only enable a proxy (Datacenter or Residential) if you scrape very large volumes and start seeing rate limits; the actor then pins one sticky IP per channel.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "channels": [
    "durov"
  ],
  "searchQuery": "",
  "maxPostsPerChannel": 0,
  "maxItems": 0,
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": false
  }
}
```

# Actor output Schema

## `results` (type: `string`):

All posts extracted by this run. Open the Dataset tab to browse, filter, and export as CSV, JSON, or Excel.

# API

You can run this Actor programmatically using our API. Below are code examples in JavaScript, Python, and CLI, as well as the OpenAPI specification and MCP server setup.

## JavaScript example

```javascript
import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

// Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
// Replace the '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token
const client = new ApifyClient({
    token: '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>',
});

// Prepare Actor input
const input = {
    "channels": [
        "durov"
    ]
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("logiover/telegram-channel-scraper").call(input);

// Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if any)
console.log('Results from dataset');
console.log(`💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/${run.defaultDatasetId}`);
const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
items.forEach((item) => {
    console.dir(item);
});

// 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs

```

## Python example

```python
from apify_client import ApifyClient

# Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
# Replace '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token.
client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>")

# Prepare the Actor input
run_input = { "channels": ["durov"] }

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("logiover/telegram-channel-scraper").call(run_input=run_input)

# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)
print("💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/" + run["defaultDatasetId"])
for item in client.dataset(run["defaultDatasetId"]).iterate_items():
    print(item)

# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start

```

## CLI example

```bash
echo '{
  "channels": [
    "durov"
  ]
}' |
apify call logiover/telegram-channel-scraper --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "command": "npx",
            "args": [
                "mcp-remote",
                "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=logiover/telegram-channel-scraper",
                "--header",
                "Authorization: Bearer <YOUR_API_TOKEN>"
            ]
        }
    }
}

```

## OpenAPI specification

Download the OpenAPI definition: https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/MPVVpWqHGQ5d3Hfdh/builds/R2BFRmz9w9MKWZfdE/openapi.json