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Telegram serves about twenty message IDs per request, and an album counts as several IDs but one post — so a channel that posts photo albums needs more requests per post than one that posts text.", "default": 1000 }, "oldestPostDate": { "title": "Stop at posts older than", "type": "string", "description": "`2026-08-01`, or a full timestamp. Reading stops as soon as a post older than this appears, so a narrow window costs a few requests rather than the whole archive." }, "newestPostDate": { "title": "Skip posts newer than", "type": "string", "description": "`2026-08-15`, or a full timestamp. Use with the field above to take one week out of the middle of an archive." }, "onlyNewSinceLastRun": { "title": "Only posts published since the last run", "type": "boolean", "description": "Remembers the last post ID it read for each channel and starts from there next time, so a scheduled run collects — and bills — only what is genuinely new. It reads forwards from where it stopped, so nothing is skipped even when a channel posts hundreds of times between runs. The first run has nothing to resume from and reads normally.", "default": false }, "afterPostId": { "title": "Start after this post ID", "minimum": 0, "type": "integer", "description": "The number at the end of a post link — `t.me/durov/523` is 523. Reads everything published after it, oldest first. Applies to a single channel; with several channels use the switch above, which keeps a separate resume point for each." }, "onlyWithMedia": { "title": "Only posts with photos, video or files", "type": "boolean", "description": "Filters run before anything is stored or billed, so a filtered-out post costs you nothing.", "default": false }, "onlyWithLinks": { "title": "Only posts that link somewhere", "type": "boolean", "description": "Counts both links inside the text and a shared article's link preview.", "default": false }, "minViews": { "title": "Minimum views", "minimum": 0, "type": "integer", "description": "Telegram rounds large view counts to `12.5M`, so this compares against that rounded number. 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