What you can get from Telegram
| Endpoint | Input | Returns | Price |
|---|---|---|---|
/v1/telegram/profile | handle | A public channel's title, description and subscribers | 1 credit |
/v1/telegram/posts | handle | The channel's posts with views and media | 2 credits per 20 results |
/v1/telegram/post | id | One post by t.me link | 1 credit |
/v1/telegram/search | q + handle | Search inside one channel | 3 credits per 20 results |
Lists are charged only for the results that come back. Credit packs cost $0.99–$1.45 per 1,000 credits, lower on custom volume plans; see pricing.
Vanefeed vs the official Telegram API
Telegram's Bot API only sees chats the bot has been added to, and reading a channel's history through the full client API (MTProto) needs a phone-number account.
Vanefeed reads public channels without a bot, an account or a phone number. Private groups and chats are out of scope.
Example
curl "https://api.vanefeed.com/v1/telegram/posts?handle=durov&limit=20" \
-H "Authorization: Bearer $VANEFEED_KEY"Every platform answers in the same shape: data (posts with author, text, published_at, metrics and media), plus next_cursor for the next page. Add dry_run=true to see the price first, free.
Good to know
- Only public content: no private accounts, messages or anything behind a login.
- One key covers every platform: TikTok API · X (Twitter) API · Instagram API · YouTube API · Reddit API · Facebook API · Bluesky API and news sites.
Questions
Can I read private groups?
No. Only public channels, the same content anyone can open at t.me/s/channel.
Do I need a Telegram account?
No. You only need your Vanefeed key.
Do failed calls cost credits?
No. Credits are only taken for successful answers, and every response shows what it cost in the X-Credits-Cost header. Repeats served from cache are free too.
Can I get sentiment with the data?
Yes: add sentiment=true to posts, comments or search and each result gets a positive, neutral or negative label with a confidence score, for 1 extra credit per 20 results.
100 free credits
Try every Telegram endpoint in the playground. No card needed.