# Telegram Channel & Profile Scraper

A social media tool your agent can run on one prepaid apifare key. Page: https://apifare.com/tools/automation-lab/telegram-scraper

## What you need

An apifare key with credits (sign up: POST https://apifare.com/v1/signup {"email": "..."}; new accounts get 500 free credits). No other account or key.

## Inputs

- `channels` (array, required): Channel usernames
- `maxMessages` (integer): Max messages per channel (e.g. 100)
- `oldestMessageDate` (string): Oldest message date
- `afterMessageId` (integer): Only messages after ID
- `includeChannelInfo` (boolean): Include channel info
- `profileOnly` (boolean): Profile only

The most relevant fields; the search result's input_schema lists all of them.

## Price

5 credits reserved per run, settled to the run's true cost, never more than 20 credits (1 credit = $0.01). Failed runs are refunded. Exact numbers: https://apifare.com/capabilities

## Run it

1. Find it: MCP search_apis, or GET https://apifare.com/v1/search?q=Telegram%20Channel%20%26%20Profile%20Scraper with Authorization: Bearer <token>. Take the result named "Telegram Channel & Profile Scraper"; it carries a proxy_route.
2. Run it: MCP proxy_call with that proxy_route and the input JSON (apifare-mcp over stdio), or POST the proxy_route over HTTP with the input JSON as the body and the same Authorization header.
3. On HTTP 402, relay the body's human_readable field to your human verbatim, wait, then retry the same call. Every other error and its fix: https://apifare.com/errors.md