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Every spelling works and they all reach the same channel: the bare username (`durov`), the `@name` (`@durov`), a link (`https://t.me/durov`), a preview link (`https://t.me/s/durov`), or a link to one of its posts (`https://t.me/durov/527` — the post number is ignored here). Duplicates across those spellings are read, and billed, **once**. Private invite links (`t.me/+AbCdEf`) and internal links (`t.me/c/…`) cannot be read at all and get a free diagnostic row saying so.", "items": { "type": "string" } }, "maxPostsPerChannel": { "title": "Posts per channel", "minimum": 0, "maximum": 100000, "type": "integer", "description": "How many posts to return for each channel, **newest first**. Telegram serves 20 posts per request, so 100 posts is 5 requests and 1,000 is 50. Set **0 for as deep as the preview will go** — that is `maxPagesPerChannel` × 20 posts, 1,000 by default. There is no way to reach the very first post of a large channel: Telegram's public preview stops serving older pages long before that.", "default": 100 }, "since": { "title": "Only posts since (ISO date)", "type": "string", "description": "Stop as soon as a post older than this is reached — `2026-08-01`, or a full timestamp like `2026-08-01T12:00:00Z`. Because posts come back newest first, this is a **stop**, not a filter: a cutoff of yesterday costs one request per channel however large the channel is. That makes it the right setting for a scheduled run that only wants what is new. Leave empty for no cutoff." }, "includeChannelInfo": { "title": "Include a channel row", "type": "boolean", "description": "Write one `channel` row per channel before its posts: title, `@username`, description, subscriber count, verified flag, avatar URL, and Telegram's own counts of the photos, videos, links and files the channel has posted. It is free to fetch — the information is in the header of the page the posts come from — but it is a separately priced row, so it can be turned off for a run that only wants posts.", "default": true }, "postUrls": { "title": "Single post URLs", "type": "array", "description": "Links to individual posts — `https://t.me/durov/300` — read one at a time through Telegram's embed widget. Use this for posts that have scrolled out of a channel's recent history, or when you have a list of specific posts and do not want the channel around them. One row each, and no `channel` row. A post listed here is fetched even if the same post also arrives from its channel's feed.", "items": { "type": "string" } }, "includeHtml": { "title": "Keep the HTML of post text", "type": "boolean", "description": "Add a `textHtml` column holding the post exactly as Telegram marked it up — ``, ``, ``, ``, custom emoji tags and all. The plain-text `text` column is always there; this is for when you want the formatting or the anchor markup. It makes rows several times larger and it is off by default.", "default": false }, "maxPagesPerChannel": { "title": "Maximum pages per channel", "minimum": 1, "maximum": 500, "type": "integer", "description": "A hard ceiling on requests per channel, whatever `maxPostsPerChannel` says. Each page is 20 posts and roughly 140 KB, so the default of 50 is 1,000 posts and about 7 MB per channel. This is the safety rail for `maxPostsPerChannel: 0`, and the number to raise when you genuinely want to walk a channel's whole readable history.", "default": 50 }, "maxConcurrency": { "title": "Channels in parallel", "minimum": 1, "maximum": 10, "type": "integer", "description": "How many channels are read at once. Each parallel worker keeps its own proxy session, so one rate-limited channel burns only its own exit IP. Pages within one channel are always sequential and spaced 300–700 ms apart, because that is what paging politely looks like.", "default": 4 }, "maxRunSecs": { "title": "Maximum run time (seconds)", "minimum": 30, "maximum": 3600, "type": "integer", "description": "Wall-clock budget for the whole run. When it is reached the Actor stops fetching, keeps and bills for every row it already wrote, and files a free diagnostic row for each channel it never reached or could not finish. A channel stopped part-way keeps its posts. Nothing is charged for work that did not happen.", "default": 240 }, "proxyConfiguration": { "title": "Proxy configuration", "type": "object", "description": "Telegram's public preview answers datacenter addresses, so the default is Apify's datacenter proxy — much cheaper than residential, and the proxy cost is already inside the per-row price. Switch to residential if you are reading many channels on a schedule and start seeing `blocked` rows: Telegram rate-limits by address, and sessions rotate automatically when an exit IP is refused.", "default": { "useApifyProxy": true } } } }, "runsResponseSchema": { "type": "object", "properties": { "data": { "type": "object", "properties": { "id": { "type": "string" }, "actId": { "type": "string" }, "userId": { "type": "string" }, "startedAt": { "type": "string", "format": "date-time", "example": "2025-01-08T00:00:00.000Z" }, "finishedAt": { "type": "string", "format": "date-time", "example": "2025-01-08T00:00:00.000Z" }, "status": { "type": "string", "example": "READY" }, "meta": { "type": "object", "properties": { "origin": { "type": "string", "example": "API" }, "userAgent": { "type": "string" } } }, "stats": { "type": "object", "properties": { "inputBodyLen": { "type": "integer", "example": 2000 }, "rebootCount": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "restartCount": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "resurrectCount": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "computeUnits": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 } } }, "options": { "type": "object", "properties": { "build": { "type": "string", "example": "latest" }, "timeoutSecs": { "type": "integer", "example": 300 }, "memoryMbytes": { "type": "integer", "example": 1024 }, "diskMbytes": { "type": "integer", "example": 2048 } } }, "buildId": { "type": "string" }, "defaultKeyValueStoreId": { "type": "string" }, "defaultDatasetId": { "type": "string" }, "defaultRequestQueueId": { "type": "string" }, "buildNumber": { "type": "string", "example": "1.0.0" }, "containerUrl": { "type": "string" }, "usage": { "type": "object", "properties": { "ACTOR_COMPUTE_UNITS": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "DATASET_READS": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "DATASET_WRITES": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "KEY_VALUE_STORE_READS": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "KEY_VALUE_STORE_WRITES": { "type": "integer", "example": 1 }, "KEY_VALUE_STORE_LISTS": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "REQUEST_QUEUE_READS": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "REQUEST_QUEUE_WRITES": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "DATA_TRANSFER_INTERNAL_GBYTES": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "DATA_TRANSFER_EXTERNAL_GBYTES": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "PROXY_RESIDENTIAL_TRANSFER_GBYTES": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "PROXY_SERPS": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 } } }, "usageTotalUsd": { "type": "number", "example": 0.00005 }, "usageUsd": { "type": "object", "properties": { "ACTOR_COMPUTE_UNITS": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "DATASET_READS": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "DATASET_WRITES": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "KEY_VALUE_STORE_READS": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "KEY_VALUE_STORE_WRITES": { "type": "number", "example": 0.00005 }, "KEY_VALUE_STORE_LISTS": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "REQUEST_QUEUE_READS": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "REQUEST_QUEUE_WRITES": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "DATA_TRANSFER_INTERNAL_GBYTES": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "DATA_TRANSFER_EXTERNAL_GBYTES": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "PROXY_RESIDENTIAL_TRANSFER_GBYTES": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "PROXY_SERPS": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 } } } } } } } } } }