📡 Telegram Channel Scraper – JSON API

Parsing messages from public Telegram channels on the website https://t.me/s/<channel> and returning them as an API response in JSON format.

🚀 Features

• ✅ Retrieve message text
• 🖼 Extract images
• 🎥 Get video previews
• 📎 Extract document titles
• 🕒 Formatted date (ISO 8601)
• 🧩 Simple REST API

📦 Installation

git clone https://github.com/MrghtChannel/telegram-channel-scraper
cd telegram-channel-scraper
npm install

▶️ Run

node index.js

By default, the server runs on port 3000.

📥 Example Request

GET http://localhost:3000/t.me/s/<channel>/json

Replace <channel> with the channel name. Examples:

• durov
• breakingmash
• elonmusk

⚠️ Limitations

• ❗ Works only with public Telegram channels
• ❗ Telegram may change the HTML structure at any time (if this happens, the parser will need to be updated)
• ❗ Video and documents — only previews or titles, not the files themselves

🧱 Technology Stack

• Node.js
• Express
• Axios
• Cheerio – jQuery-like HTML parser

📄 License

This project is licensed under the MIT license.