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Scrape Creators API / Channel Posts

ScrapeCreators tool scrapecreators-telegram-channel-posts on looot: input fields, $0.00188 per call, output shape, and code to run it with curl, JavaScript or Python.

Retrieves one public web-preview page of Telegram posts with text, publish date, views, reactions when exposed, forwards, media previews, and link previews. Pass the returned cursor to fetch the previous page. Empty and terminal pages are not charged. Telegram does not expose every field on every public post, so reactions and downloadable media URLs can be absent. This endpoint does not support private or invite-only channels and groups.

Inputs

Name Type Required Description
cache_max_age string no Example: “7d”
cursor string no
handle string yes

Output

The run’s result holds the provider’s answer. Signed in, looot inspect scrapecreators-telegram-channel-posts prints its fields.

Run it

Every call needs your API token in LOOOT_TOKEN; Sign in shows how to get one. Each run also needs a new idempotency key, so a retry never pays twice. With wait: 30 the answer comes back inline when the run ends within 30 seconds. Otherwise you get the running run back: poll GET /v1/runs/<runId>.

Example input with placeholder values:

curl -X POST "https://api.looot.ai/v1/runs" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $LOOOT_TOKEN" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -H "Idempotency-Key: $(uuidgen)" \
  -d '{"endpointId":"scrapecreators-telegram-channel-posts","input":{"handle":"<handle>","cursor":"<cursor>","cache_max_age":"7d"},"wait":30}'
const response = await fetch("https://api.looot.ai/v1/runs", {
  method: "POST",
  headers: {
    Authorization: `Bearer ${process.env.LOOOT_TOKEN}`,
    "Content-Type": "application/json",
    "Idempotency-Key": crypto.randomUUID(),
  },
  body: JSON.stringify({
    endpointId: "scrapecreators-telegram-channel-posts",
    input: {
      handle: "<handle>",
      cursor: "<cursor>",
      cache_max_age: "7d",
    },
    wait: 30,
  }),
});
const run = await response.json();
console.log(run.status, run.result);
import os
import uuid

import requests

response = requests.post(
    "https://api.looot.ai/v1/runs",
    headers={
        "Authorization": f"Bearer {os.environ['LOOOT_TOKEN']}",
        "Idempotency-Key": str(uuid.uuid4()),
    },
    json={
        "endpointId": "scrapecreators-telegram-channel-posts",
        "input": {
            "handle": "<handle>",
            "cursor": "<cursor>",
            "cache_max_age": "7d",
        },
        "wait": 30,
    },
    timeout=90,
)
run = response.json()
print(run["status"], run.get("result"))

To let looot pick among every provider of this job instead, send job:telegram.channel.posts as endpointId; see the job page.

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