Get a Telegram post

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Retrieve a Telegram message by permalink, including text, publication time, views, reactions, media and link previews.

GET/v1/telegram/postx-api-key

Headers

Get your API key

x-api-keystringrequiredheader

Your ScrapeAtlas customer key. Create one on /account/ and set SCRAPEATLAS_API_KEY.

Query parameters

urlstringrequiredquery

Canonical post permalink.

max 160 chars

Examplehttps://t.me/example/101

Response fields

requestIdstring

Operational request identifier.

Source attempts, decoded bytes, elapsed time and active-request sharing.

accounting.upstreamRequestsinteger

Always included.

≥ 0

accounting.responseBytesinteger

Always included.

≥ 0

accounting.durationMsnumber

Always included.

≥ 0

accounting.coalescedbooleanoptional

Optional.

successboolean

Whether usable data was returned.

statusenum

success, partial, failed or challenged.

one of: success, partial

sourceUrlstring

Retrieved public post URL.

absolute HTTPS URL

fetchedAtstring

UTC retrieval time.

Field coverage and extraction warnings.

coverage.sourceenum

Always included.

one of: public_preview, public_embed

coverage.completeboolean

Always included.

coverage.warningsenum[]

Always included.

idstring

Source message ID as a decimal string.

channel_handlestring

Canonical channel handle.

urlstring

Canonical post permalink.

absolute HTTPS URL

author_namestringnullable

Displayed author name.

author_urlstringnullable

Public author URL.

textstringnullable

Post text with normalized whitespace.

renderedTextstringnullable

Post text with rendered line breaks and visible inline text.

published_atstringnullable

Source publication datetime.

view_countintegernullable

Numeric displayed view count.

view_count_textstringnullable

Original displayed view count.

Emoji or custom emoji ID with numeric and displayed reaction counts.

up to 100 items

reactions.emojistringnullable

Always included.

reactions.emoji_idstringnullable

Always included.

reactions.countintegernullable

Always included.

reactions.count_textstringnullable

Always included.

reaction_countintegernullable

Sum of available reaction counts.

Forward attribution name and URL when shown.

forwarded_from.namestringnullable

Always included.

forwarded_from.urlstringnullable

Always included.

Ordered photo, video, document or audio entries with source URLs, thumbnails and displayed duration.

up to 100 items

media.typeenum

Always included.

one of: photo, video, document, audio

media.urlstringnullable

Always included.

media.thumbnail_urlstringnullable

Always included.

media.durationstringnullable

Always included.

Linked URL, site name, title, description and image URL.

link_preview.urlstringnullable

Always included.

link_preview.site_namestringnullable

Always included.

link_preview.titlestringnullable

Always included.

link_preview.descriptionstringnullable

Always included.

link_preview.image_urlstringnullable

Always included.

HTTP 200 returns the success variant. Check status: partial means usable data with warnings, and failed or challenged requests carry a failure object described in Errors & responses.

Error codes

HTTP	failure.code	Meaning
400	`invalid_request`	Missing, duplicate, unsupported or invalid parameters.
401	`unauthorized`	Missing or invalid service key.
403	`restricted_page`	Public page explicitly reports restricted access.
404	`not_found`	Missing profile or generic contact fallback.
429	`upstream_rate_limited`	No automatic retry.
502	`upstream_challenged` `unsupported_page`	Challenge, unrecognized page or identity mismatch.
502	`upstream_error` `unsafe_redirect` `response_too_large` `payload_too_complex` `request_limit`	Bounded retrieval failed.
503	`busy`	All worker slots occupied.
504	`timeout`	Deadline exceeded.
200	`partial`	Unknown entity type or unavailable displayed counts.

Code example

curl "https://api.scrapeatlas.com/v1/telegram/post?url=https%3A%2F%2Ft.me%2Fexample%2F101" \
  -H "x-api-key: YOUR_API_KEY"

const response = await fetch(
  "https://api.scrapeatlas.com/v1/telegram/post?url=https%3A%2F%2Ft.me%2Fexample%2F101",
  {
    headers: {
      "x-api-key": "YOUR_API_KEY"
    }
  }
);

const data = await response.json();
console.log(data.status, data);

type Result = {
  status: "success" | "partial" | "failed" | "challenged";
  requestId: string;
  [field: string]: unknown;
};

const response = await fetch(
  "https://api.scrapeatlas.com/v1/telegram/post?url=https%3A%2F%2Ft.me%2Fexample%2F101",
  {
    headers: {
      "x-api-key": process.env.SCRAPEATLAS_API_KEY!
    }
  }
);

const data = (await response.json()) as Result;
if (data.status === "failed" || data.status === "challenged") {
  throw new Error(`Telegram request failed: ${data.requestId}`);
}
console.log(data);

import requests

response = requests.get(
    "https://api.scrapeatlas.com/v1/telegram/post",
    headers={"x-api-key": "YOUR_API_KEY"},
    params={
        "url": "https://t.me/example/101"
    },
    timeout=60,
)
data = response.json()
print(data["status"], data)

package main

import (
	"encoding/json"
	"fmt"
	"net/http"
)

func main() {
	req, _ := http.NewRequest("GET", "https://api.scrapeatlas.com/v1/telegram/post?url=https%3A%2F%2Ft.me%2Fexample%2F101", nil)
	req.Header.Set("x-api-key", "YOUR_API_KEY")
	resp, err := http.DefaultClient.Do(req)
	if err != nil {
		panic(err)
	}
	defer resp.Body.Close()

	var data map[string]interface{}
	json.NewDecoder(resp.Body).Decode(&data)
	fmt.Println(data["status"], data)
}

import java.net.URI;
import java.net.http.HttpClient;
import java.net.http.HttpRequest;
import java.net.http.HttpResponse;

public class Main {
    public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {
        var client = HttpClient.newHttpClient();
        var request = HttpRequest.newBuilder()
            .uri(URI.create("https://api.scrapeatlas.com/v1/telegram/post?url=https%3A%2F%2Ft.me%2Fexample%2F101"))
            .GET()
            .header("x-api-key", "YOUR_API_KEY")
            .build();
        var response = client.send(request, HttpResponse.BodyHandlers.ofString());
        System.out.println(response.body());
    }
}

Use your sa_live_… customer key at https://api.scrapeatlas.com.

Responses

Successful result. Synthetic example validated against the runtime contract.

{
  "success": true,
  "status": "success",
  "requestId": "00000000-0000-4000-8000-000000000001",
  "sourceUrl": "https://t.me/example/101?embed=1&mode=tme",
  "fetchedAt": "2026-09-11T00:00:00.000Z",
  "coverage": {
    "source": "public_embed",
    "complete": true,
    "warnings": []
  },
  "accounting": {
    "upstreamRequests": 1,
    "responseBytes": 11000,
    "durationMs": 450
  },
  "id": "101",
  "channel_handle": "example",
  "url": "https://t.me/example/101",
  "author_name": "Example News",
  "author_url": "https://t.me/example",
  "text": "A synthetic post.",
  "renderedText": "A synthetic post.",
  "published_at": "2026-09-01T12:00:00+00:00",
  "view_count": 1200,
  "view_count_text": "1.2K",
  "reactions": [],
  "reaction_count": 0,
  "forwarded_from": null,
  "media": [
    {
      "type": "photo",
      "url": "https://cdn.example.test/photo.jpg",
      "thumbnail_url": null,
      "duration": null
    }
  ],
  "link_preview": null
}

Missing, duplicate, unsupported or invalid parameters.

{
  "requestId": "9d2f1c0a-6b1e-4c7d-9a8e-2f3b4c5d6e7f",
  "accounting": {
    "upstreamRequests": 0,
    "responseBytes": 0,
    "durationMs": 0,
    "coalesced": true
  },
  "success": false,
  "status": "failed",
  "failure": {
    "code": "invalid_request",
    "message": "Invalid request: missing, duplicate, unsupported or malformed parameters."
  }
}