Telegram Channel Scraper - Posts, Media & Buttons | No Login

Telegram Channel Scraper - Posts, Media & Buttons | No Login

Telegram channel scraper for public channels, with no login, no phone number and no API key. Paste a channel and get every post as a row: text, date, views, reactions, Telegram's own photo and video links, every album item, file names and sizes, the links in the text and the buttons under each post.

Available as an Apify Actor. $0.30 per 1,000 posts, no start fee. One required field.

What does it do?

You type one or more public Telegram channels and press Start. Each post comes back as one dataset row, newest first, with the same 27 columns every time, so it drops straight into a spreadsheet, a database or an AI pipeline.

• The post itself. Plain text with emoji and line breaks kept, the original HTML (bold, links, spoilers), date in UTC, views, the author signature, whether it was edited, and "via @bot" when a bot posted it.
• Media, as Telegram's own links. Photos, videos, GIFs, round videos, voice notes and stickers each come with Telegram's link, plus width, height, duration and thumbnail where Telegram shows them. An album is one row with every item listed, and each item keeps its own post id.
• Files and music. Documents come with their file name and size (app-release.apk, 12.3 MB), music with its title and performer.
• Inline buttons. The buttons under a post, with their text, link, row and column. On alert, signal and deal channels this is where the real link lives (the exchange filing, the checkout, the chart).
• Links, previews, forwards and replies. Every link in the text, the preview card Telegram shows for a shared link, who a post was forwarded from, and which post it replies to, even in another channel.
• Reactions and polls. Every reaction with its count, including custom emoji and paid star reactions. Polls with the question, each option's share and the voter count.
• Channel details on every row. Channel name, title, numeric id (it survives a rename) and subscriber count, so each row stands on its own.

How is it different from other Telegram scrapers?

We read the output fields that the 10 most-used Apify Store scrapers reading Telegram's public web preview (the same source as this actor) declare in their dataset schemas and READMEs, on 2026-09-23. How many of the 10 list each field:

Two more things you only notice when something goes wrong:

• Every skipped channel says why. Groups, personal accounts, bots, names that do not exist, private invite links and channels Telegram has blocked all look like an ordinary page to a scraper. This actor recognises each one and writes a plain reason ("@ru_python is a group, not a channel") into the run summary instead of returning an empty result. When Telegram blocks a channel it passes on Telegram's own words, for example "This channel can't be displayed because it violated local laws."
• Posts the web preview hides still get their text. A few posts show only "Please open Telegram to view this post" on the web. The actor fetches the post's own page and recovers the text (up to about 1,000 characters, flagged with textTruncated when Telegram cut it).

When should I use it?

• Monitoring channels every day or every hour for news, announcements, deals or signals, and feeding the posts into a sheet, a database or an alerting bot.
• Collecting the links behind inline buttons, such as the exchange filing on an earnings-alert channel or the product link on a deals channel.
• Building a dataset of posts for research, sentiment analysis or training, with views and reactions as engagement numbers.
• Tracking what a brand, a public figure or a competitor posts, with the photos and videos alongside.
• Archiving a channel's history back to its first post.
• OSINT and journalism: who forwards whom, which channels quote each other, and a dated record of what a channel posted in case it later edits or deletes it.

What does it cost?

Pay per post: $0.30 per 1,000 posts ($0.0003 each). No start fee, no monthly fee, platform compute included. On paid Apify plans it is less: $0.27 per 1,000 on Scale and $0.24 on Business and above.

An album counts as one post. Apify's free plan includes $5 of monthly credit, which covers about 16,000 posts. Set a spending limit on a run for a hard cap: the run stops cleanly when it is reached and every post you paid for is saved.

How does the price compare with other Telegram scrapers?

The same job with the most-used Telegram scrapers on the Apify Store, worked out from each actor's live pricing on 2026-09-24. Apify free plan, one channel, each actor's default memory (some start fees are charged per GB of memory):

Several of these actors discount their prices on paid Apify plans, and this one does too: $0.27 per 1,000 posts on Scale and $0.24 on Business and above. fetch_cat, automation-lab and truefetch discount on the top tiers as well, so compare at your own plan if you run millions of posts. What each one returns also differs: see the field comparison above.

Which inputs does it take?

When both limits are set, each channel stops at whichever it reaches first. Through the API:

{

"channels": ["durov", "https://t.me/telegram"], "maxPosts": 500, "postedAfter": "30 days" }

What does the output look like?

One row per post. A real row from an earnings-alert channel, run on Apify on 2026-09-23 (the photo link is shortened here):

{

"channel": "earnings_pulse", "channelId": 2457353254, "channelTitle": "Earnings Pulse", "channelSubscribers": 16700, "postId": 14397, "postUrl": "https://t.me/earnings_pulse/14397", "date": "2026-09-23T14:30:09+00:00", "text": "📅 Tomorrow's Calendar - 24 Sep, 2026\nKey companies reporting results: #ESDS #PERNIASPOP\n\n @earnings_pulse", "textHtml": "<i class=\"emoji\" ...", "textTruncated": false, "author": null, "isEdited": false, "isService": false, "viaBot": null, "views": 1600, "reactions": [], "forwardedFrom": null, "replyTo": null, "links": ["https://t.me/earnings_pulse"], "buttons": [ { "text": "📥 TV Watchlist", "url": "https://earningspulse.ai/watchlist?source=calendar&market=IN&date=2026-09-24&exchange=nse&illiquid=false", "row": 1, "column": 1, "type": "url" } ], "linkPreview": null, "mediaType": "photo", "mediaUrl": "https://cdn5.telesco.pe/file/J_2-EXw1QZwMA0WAXI6R4bti3qSdjie6...jpg", "media": [ { "type": "photo", "url": "https://cdn5.telesco.pe/file/J_2-EXw1QZwMA0WAXI6R4bti3qSdjie6...jpg", "thumbnailUrl": null, "width": 800, "height": 551, "durationSeconds": null, "fileName": null, "fileSize": null, "fileId": "6170246302470443471", "postId": 14397, "unavailable": null } ], "poll": null, "unsupported": null, "scrapedAt": "2026-09-23T17:55:18+00:00" }

A file post from the same run, media part only. Telegram shows the name and size but gives no public download link, so url is empty and unavailable says why:

{

"postUrl": "https://t.me/magisk_update/8", "isEdited": true, "mediaType": "document", "media": [ { "type": "document", "url": null, "fileName": "app-release (1).apk", "fileSize": "12.3 MB", "postId": 8, "unavailable": "no_public_link" } ] }

A poll:

{

"postUrl": "https://t.me/polls/161", "poll": { "question": "By 2030, what will be NATO's biggest challenge to its unity and effectiveness?", "type": "Anonymous Poll", "options": [ { "text": "Rising US isolationism pulling back from commitments", "percent": 0 }, { "text": "Internal member state political divisions", "percent": 67 }, { "text": "An increasingly aggressive Russ