# Telegram Channel Scraper — messages, reactions, views & media

A social media tool your agent can run on one prepaid apifare key. Page: https://apifare.com/tools/memo23/telegram-channel-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

- `startUrls` (array): t.me URLs
- `usernames` (array): Channel usernames (alternative to URLs)
- `maxItems` (integer): Maximum messages to scrape (e.g. 100)
- `oldestDate` (string): Oldest message date
- `newestDate` (string): Newest message date
- `sinceLastRun` (boolean): Only new messages since last run

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%20Scraper%20%E2%80%94%20messages%2C%20reactions%2C%20views%20%26%20media with Authorization: Bearer <token>. Take the result named "Telegram Channel Scraper — messages, reactions, views & media"; 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