social-telegram

Telegram public preview (t.me/s/)

Telegram's own server-rendered web preview of any public channel, showing recent posts without an app or login. You reach it simply by opening the channel's preview page on t.me. It is the most straightforward way to read and pull posts from public Telegram channels.

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Why it’s useful & how it works

Telegram's own web-rendered channel pages are the cleanest, most reliable way to read public channels without installing the app or creating an account. Any public channel that has the web preview feature enabled can be browsed by opening t.me/s/channelname in a browser. Posts load in reverse-chronological order and you can scroll back through history using the built-in pagination. Because this is Telegram's official first-party interface, it stays in sync with the channel itself and does not depend on any third-party scraper.

What’s inside

Covers every public Telegram channel whose administrator has not disabled the web preview. Shows the channel's recent post history with no fixed cap on how far back you can paginate, as long as the channel itself is public.

API access

HTML at https://t.me/s/ <channel> (paginate ?before=<id>); per-message https://t.me/ <channel>/<id>?embed=1

What we measured

Our own probes, not the archive’s own claims. Re-run periodically; every reading below is dated.

Reachability

Direct request: Responded HTTP 200 970 ms
Through a datacenter proxy: Responded HTTP 200 1.4 s

Did a real search return anything?

Returned results · 20 results for the sample query · median 1.5 s · stable across runs

Benchmark coverage

Found 1 of 2 test items (50%) in the Social cluster. Median response 531 ms.

By how well known the item is: 1/1 well-known, 0/1 mid .

Reachability measured 2026-08-22. Search checked 2026-08-22. Benchmark run 2026-08-22.