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

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?

Shortened. The full README is on GitHub.