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Telegram public post

Beta GET /v1/telegram/post

GET /v1/telegram/post

One public post by URL: text, date, views, reactions, forward source, media and link previews.

  • Cost: 1 credit
  • Status: Beta. Built and tested against recorded responses; the shape may still gain fields.
  • Cache: Results are kept up to 30 days; send max_age_days to reuse them for free.
  • Timeout: A request still running after about 25 seconds answers 202 with a job to poll (Batch and jobs).

Parameters#

NameTypeRequiredDescription
urlURLyesPost URL (t.me/<channel>/<number>). Accepted hosts: t.me, telegram.me.

Every request also accepts:

  • trim: true for a smaller response without null fields and extra.
  • raw: true to also get the platform's original object as raw.
  • max_age_days: accept a cached result up to this many days old, for 0 credits (Caching).

Example request#

Set your key in the environment first (see Authentication).

curl
curl -G "https://api.socialscrape.io/v1/telegram/post" \
  -H "x-api-key: $SOCIALSCRAPE_API_KEY" \
  --data-urlencode "url=https://t.me/durov/543"
Python
import os
import requests

params = {
    "url": "https://t.me/durov/543",
}
res = requests.get(
    "https://api.socialscrape.io/v1/telegram/post",
    headers={"x-api-key": os.environ["SOCIALSCRAPE_API_KEY"]},
    params=params,
)
body = res.json()

if body["ok"]:
    print(body["data"])
else:
    print(body["error"]["code"], body["error"]["message"])
TypeScript
const url = new URL("https://api.socialscrape.io/v1/telegram/post");
url.search = new URLSearchParams({
  "url": "https://t.me/durov/543"
}).toString();
const res = await fetch(url, {
  headers: { "x-api-key": process.env.SOCIALSCRAPE_API_KEY! },
});
const body = await res.json();

if (body.ok) {
  console.log(body.data);
} else {
  console.error(body.error.code, body.error.message);
}
n8n
{
  "nodes": [
    {
      "name": "SocialScrape Telegram public post",
      "type": "n8n-nodes-base.httpRequest",
      "typeVersion": 4.2,
      "position": [
        0,
        0
      ],
      "parameters": {
        "method": "GET",
        "url": "https://api.socialscrape.io/v1/telegram/post",
        "sendQuery": true,
        "queryParameters": {
          "parameters": [
            {
              "name": "url",
              "value": "https://t.me/durov/543"
            }
          ]
        },
        "sendHeaders": true,
        "headerParameters": {
          "parameters": [
            {
              "name": "x-api-key",
              "value": "={{ $env.SOCIALSCRAPE_API_KEY }}"
            }
          ]
        }
      }
    }
  ],
  "connections": {}
}

Example response#

This is a sample from a recorded response, lists and long text are shortened. Status 200.

{
  "ok": true,
  "credits_charged": 1,
  "credits_remaining": 4999,
  "cached": false,
  "cached_at": null,
  "request_id": "req_beafc1bfa636b3258e36c499",
  "data": {
    "object": "post",
    "platform": "telegram",
    "id": "543",
    "url": "https://t.me/durov/543",
    "type": "text",
    "author": {
      "id": null,
      "handle": "durov",
      "name": "Pavel Durov",
      "url": "https://t.me/durov",
      "avatar_url": null,
      "verified": true
    },
    "title": null,
    "text": "šŸ’Ž Telegram has applied for the .gram domain zone.\n\nIf the application is approved by ICANN, a billion Telegram users could get their own second-level domains.\n\nšŸ–„ For example, @durov would get durov.gram, and @monk would get  monk.gram. \n\nUs...",
    "published_at": "2026-08-18T17:37:31Z",
    "duration_seconds": null,
    "language": null,
    "hashtags": null,
    "mentions": [
      "durov"
    ],
    "stats": {
      "views": 4080000,
      "likes": null,
      "comments": null,
      "shares": null,
      "saves": null,
      "dislikes": null
    },
    "media": {
      "thumbnail_url": null,
      "video_url": null,
      "audio_url": null,
      "image_urls": null,
      "width": null,
      "height": null
    },
    "song": null,
    "location": null,
    "is_pinned": null,
    "is_sponsored": null,
    "extra": {
      "channel_handle": "durov",
      "reaction_count": 113400,
      "reactions": [
        {
          "count": 17300,
          "count_text": "17.3K",
          "emoji": null,
          "emoji_id": null,
          "paid": true
        },
        {
          "count": 59300,
          "count_text": "59.3K",
          "emoji": null,
          "emoji_id": "5373223594484587136",
          "paid": null
        },
        {
          "count": 21800,
          "count_text": "21.8K",
          "emoji": null,
          "emoji_id": "5399847211989246390",
          "paid": null
        }
      ],
      "signature": "Pavel Durov",
      "view_count_text": "4.08M"
    }
  },
  "cursor": null,
  "has_more": null
}

Response#

A Post object in data.

See Data models for every field. The envelope around data is described in Responses.

Errors#

Failures are free: credits_charged is 0. Branch on error.code, never on the message.

CodeHTTPRetryMeaning
invalid_params400noA parameter is missing, unknown or has the wrong type.
unsupported_url400noThe URL is not one this endpoint accepts (wrong platform or form).
not_found404noThe platform says this profile, post or item does not exist.

Every request can also fail with the account and platform errors listed on the Errors page.

Example error:

{
  "ok": false,
  "error": {
    "code": "not_found",
    "message": "The platform says this profile, post or item does not exist.",
    "retryable": false
  },
  "credits_charged": 0,
  "request_id": "req_cb2e9e718ecb3eda80ee342b"
}