List Telegram channel posts
Returns one page of recent public posts from a Telegram channel or group, newest page first. Each post carries its text, publish time, view count, the per-emoji reaction breakdown, and direct media URLs for photos and videos. Pass the returned cursor to walk further back through the channel's history. Page size varies because photo albums count as one post and service messages are skipped, so a short page does not mean the end of the channel: keep paging until the cursor is absent. Send q to search inside the channel instead: you get one page of the newest messages that contain every word of q (up to about 20), at the same price, with no cursor.
Request
- Base URL: https://www.socialcrawl.dev/v1
- URL: https://www.socialcrawl.dev/v1/telegram/profile/posts
- Auth: API key in header x-api-key
Query parameters
Public Telegram handle, with or without the leading @, or a t.me channel URL
Cursor from the previous page's pagination block. Omit it for the most recent posts.
Words to search for inside the channel, for example cheap watches. Returns one page of the newest messages whose text contains every word (put a phrase in double quotes to require it as written), at the same price as a plain page. Telegram's own search also matches other forms of a word (watch for watches); those messages are left out, because they do not contain the words. A search page has no cursor, so q cannot be combined with cursor.
Only rows published on or after this date: YYYY-MM-DD (midnight UTC) or an ISO 8601 timestamp. Rows older than it are left off each page. This list is not in date order, so the walk does not stop at the date: keep following next_cursor, and each page costs what a page costs even when every row on it is filtered out. A row with no date is kept. published_after, start_date, from_date, publish_time (yesterday, this-week, this-month, last-3-months, last-6-months) and max_age_days are accepted and applied as since.
Only rows published on or before this date: YYYY-MM-DD (that whole UTC day is included) or an ISO 8601 timestamp. Newer rows are left off each page and the walk does not stop, so older pages follow. A row with no date is kept. published_before, end_date and to_date are accepted and applied as until.
Headers
Send no-cache to bypass the response cache and force a live fetch. Billed at the normal endpoint cost; the fresh result is written back to cache for the next caller. Only the no-cache directive triggers this. See the Response Schema guide for details.
Optional UUID that makes the request safely retriable. The key is reserved atomically per account before billing. A concurrent retry receives 409 IDEMPOTENCY_IN_PROGRESS with a Retry-After of 1 second while the original is young, growing to a quarter of the time it has been running (at most 30); a crashed reservation expires after 5 minutes. A replay keeps the cached payload immutable except for billing metadata: credits_used becomes 0, idempotent_replay becomes true, and credits_remaining is refreshed to the current balance. A known current balance appears in both the body and X-Credits-Remaining header; no balance row resolves to 0. On a transient lookup failure, body credits_remaining is null and X-Credits-Remaining is omitted. Completed outcomes expire after 24 hours. If the claim store is unavailable, the request fails closed before billing. GET endpoints do not combine idempotent replay with Server-Sent Events: use Accept: application/json when sending this header. The unsupported key-plus-SSE combination is rejected before billing.
Response
Successful response
Example response
{
"success": true,
"platform": "telegram",
"endpoint": "/v1/telegram/profile/posts",
"credits_used": 1,
"credits_remaining": 4999,
"request_id": "req-abc123",
"idempotent_replay": true,
"meta": {
"hint": {
"code": "search_multi",
"message": "You searched \"matcha\" on 3 platforms one call at a time; /v1/search/multi returns each platform's own search rows in one call at the same price per platform, and a platform with no rows is not charged.",
"method": "GET",
"path": "/v1/search/multi?query=matcha&platforms=instagram,tiktok,youtube"
}
},
"pagination": {
"next_cursor": "sc.eyJ2IjoyLCJjIjoiMiIsInAiOiJwYWdlIn0",
"has_more": true,
"page_size": 30,
"stopped_at": "known_id"
}
}Changes
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