# Telegram Channel Scraper — Posts, Views & Media (No Login) (`ninhothedev/telegram-channel-scraper`) Actor

$0.5/1K 🔥 Fast Telegram channel scraper! Public posts, views, dates & media flags — no login, no key. JSON, CSV, Excel or API in seconds. Drop channel names & pull thousands of posts for OSINT, crypto signals & monitoring ⚡

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

## Pricing

from $0.50 / 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.

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

## What's an Apify Actor?

Actors are web data automations that power AI and operations. They run on the Apify platform to scrape websites, process data, connect APIs, and automate workflows.
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,
and optionally produces a well-defined JSON output, datasets with results, or files in key-value store.
In Standby mode, an Actor provides a web server which can be used as a website, API, or an MCP server.
Actors are written with capital "A".

## How to integrate an Actor?

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- **AI agents and MCP clients** — the [Apify MCP server](https://docs.apify.com/integrations/mcp.md) at `https://mcp.apify.com` (remote, streamable HTTP, OAuth on first use).
- **Agentic workflows and local Actor development** — [Agent Skills](https://apify.com/.well-known/agent-skills/index.json) with the [Apify CLI](https://docs.apify.com/cli/docs.md): `npm install -g apify-cli`, then `apify login`.
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- **Any other language** — the [REST API](https://docs.apify.com/api/v2.md).

For usage examples, see the [API](#api) section below.

For more details, see Apify documentation as [Markdown index](https://docs.apify.com/llms.txt) and [Markdown full-text](https://docs.apify.com/llms-full.txt).

# README

## Telegram Channel Scraper — Posts, Views & Media (No API Key, No Login)

Scrape **any public Telegram channel** in seconds — posts, full text, view counts, dates, media flags, subscriber counts and message links. **No API key. No login. No phone number.** Just paste channel usernames and run.

This Actor reads the public `t.me/s/{channel}` web preview that Telegram serves to everyone, so it stays lightweight, **datacenter-proxy friendly**, and **cheap to run**.

👉 **[Run it on Apify »](https://apify.com/ninhothedev/telegram-channel-scraper)**

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### ✨ What you get per post

| Field | Description |
|-------|-------------|
| `channel` | Channel username |
| `channel_title` | Display name of the channel |
| `subscribers` | Subscriber count (parsed to an integer, e.g. `11.6M → 11600000`) |
| `message_id` | Numeric message ID |
| `text` | Post text (cleaned, capped at 4000 chars) |
| `views` | View count parsed to int (`12.3K → 12300`) |
| `date` | Publish datetime, ISO-8601 UTC |
| `has_photo` | `true` if the post contains a photo |
| `has_video` | `true` if the post contains a video |
| `link` | Direct link `t.me/{channel}/{id}` |
| `scraped_at` | When the row was scraped (ISO-8601) |

### 🚀 Input

```json
{
  "mode": "channels",
  "channels": ["durov", "telegram"],
  "maxItems": 100
}
```

- **mode** — `channels`: give usernames, get recent posts + channel meta on every row.
- **channels** — public channel usernames (with or without `@`, or a full `t.me/` URL).
- **maxItems** — total posts to scrape across all channels (default `100`, max `1000`). Older posts are paginated automatically.

### 💡 Use cases

- **Social media monitoring** — track what brands, communities and public figures post.
- **Crypto signals** — pull posts from public trading/altcoin channels for backtesting or alerting.
- **News aggregation** — collect breaking-news channels into a single feed.
- **OSINT & research** — archive public channel activity with timestamps and view metrics.

### 💰 Pricing — built to undercut

Priced at roughly **$0.50 per 1,000 posts** — deliberately **cheaper** than heavier Telegram scrapers that require API credentials, MTProto sessions, or paid residential proxies. It runs on **512 MB** and datacenter proxies, so your compute bill stays tiny.

### 🔍 How it compares

| | This Actor | API/MTProto scrapers | Manual copy-paste |
|---|---|---|---|
| API key / login | ❌ none | ✅ required | ❌ |
| Phone number | ❌ none | ✅ often | ❌ |
| Datacenter proxies | ✅ works | ⚠️ often blocked | — |
| Setup time | seconds | hours | — |
| View counts | ✅ | ✅ | manual |
| Cost | 💲 cheap | 💲💲💲 | your time |

> Only **public** channels that expose the `t.me/s/` preview are supported. Private channels and those with the web preview disabled are out of scope.

### 🔗 Related Actors by the same author

- [Reddit Scraper](https://apify.com/ninhothedev/reddit-scraper)
- [Bluesky Scraper](https://apify.com/ninhothedev/bluesky-scraper)
- [Mastodon Scraper](https://apify.com/ninhothedev/mastodon-scraper)
- [YouTube Channel Scraper](https://apify.com/ninhothedev/youtube-channel-scraper)

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# Actor input Schema

## `mode` (type: `string`):

Scrape mode. Currently 'channels': give one or more public channel usernames and get their recent posts (each post row also carries the channel title & subscriber count).

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

List of PUBLIC Telegram channel usernames to scrape (with or without the leading @, or a full t.me/ URL). Only public channels that expose the t.me/s/ web preview are supported.

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

Maximum total number of posts to scrape across all channels. Older posts are fetched via pagination until this limit is reached.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "mode": "channels",
  "channels": [
    "durov",
    "telegram"
  ],
  "maxItems": 100
}
```

# 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",
        "telegram"
    ]
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("ninhothedev/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",
        "telegram",
    ] }

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("ninhothedev/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",
    "telegram"
  ]
}' |
apify call ninhothedev/telegram-channel-scraper --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

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

```

## OpenAPI specification

Download the OpenAPI definition: https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/EubGMK0Dwi1ecXypr/builds/YFa6NQFbeKDrdy2rz/openapi.json