Platforms
Telegram

Telegram Scraper API

Pull Telegram channels and posts as JSON. Failed requests are free.

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Data

What you get from Telegram.

Channels

Name, description, member count and verified status.

Posts

Text, publish date, length and views.

Uses

What you can build with Telegram data.

Follow channels

Read channels and the posts in them.

Measure engagement

Compare views across posts.

Example

Your first request.

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Send a requestPass a handle, URL or keyword with your key.
Use the JSONThe same shape comes back from every platform.

1curl -G "https://api.socialscrape.dev/v1/telegram/channel/posts" \2  -H "x-api-key: $SOCIALSCRAPE_API_KEY" \3  --data-urlencode "handle=durov"

1import os2import requests34params = {5    "handle": "durov",6}7res = requests.get(8    "https://api.socialscrape.dev/v1/telegram/channel/posts",9    headers={"x-api-key": os.environ["SOCIALSCRAPE_API_KEY"]},10    params=params,11)12body = res.json()1314if body["ok"]:15    print(body["data"])16else:17    print(body["error"]["code"], body["error"]["message"])

1const url = new URL("https://api.socialscrape.dev/v1/telegram/channel/posts");2url.search = new URLSearchParams({3  "handle": "durov"4}).toString();5const res = await fetch(url, {6  headers: { "x-api-key": process.env.SOCIALSCRAPE_API_KEY! },7});8const body = await res.json();910if (body.ok) {11  console.log(body.data);12} else {13  console.error(body.error.code, body.error.message);14}

200 OKSample response

{
  "ok": true,
  "credits_charged": 1,
  "credits_remaining": 4999,
  "cached": false,
  "cached_at": null,
  "request_id": "req_4bfd4c61bbc632c2ff55f435",
  "data": {
    "object": "list",
    "items": [
      {
        "object": "post",
        "platform": "telegram",
        "id": "552",
        "url": "https://t.me/durov/552",
        "type": "video",
        "author": { ... },
        "title": null,
        "text": "✨ Designers × AI\n\n🆕 The mockup era is over. Today’s AI tools give every designe...",
        "published_at": "2026-10-11T14:52:40Z",
        "duration_seconds": 75,
        "language": null,
        "hashtags": null,
        "mentions": [ ... ],
        "stats": { ... }
        ...
      },
      {
        "object": "post",
        "platform": "telegram",
        "id": "551",
        "url": "https://t.me/durov/551",
        "type": "video",
        "author": { ... },
        "title": null,
        "text": "💸 If your wallet doesn’t look like this, don’t even bother sending me money for...",
        "published_at": "2026-10-10T14:22:43Z",
        "duration_seconds": null,
        "language": null,
        "hashtags": null,
        "mentions": null,
        "stats": { ... }
        ...
      }
    ],
    "cursor": "531",
    "has_more": true,
    "parent": {
      "object": "community",
      "platform": "telegram",
      "id": null,
      "url": "https://t.me/durov",
      "kind": "channel",
      "name": "durov",
      "title": "Pavel Durov",
      "description": "Founder of Telegram.",
      "avatar_url": "https://cdn4.telesco.pe/file/E1fT1nGQ1lDmNdTpfhudwrMtUB-bHaQjPg9dJWmN5KP932jw4th...",
      "banner_url": null,
      "member_count": 10200000,
      "online_count": null,
      "is_nsfw": null,
      "is_private": null
      ...
    }
  },
  "cursor": "531",
  "has_more": true
}