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title: "Scrape Creators API / Channel Details"
description: "ScrapeCreators tool scrapecreators-telegram-channel on looot: input fields, $0.00188 per call, output shape, and code to run it with curl, JavaScript or Python."
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Retrieves public Telegram channel or group metadata including its name, description, avatar, verification status, subscriber or member count, and public media counters. This endpoint uses Telegram's public web preview and does not use a logged-in Telegram account. Private channels, invite-only groups, numeric IDs, and channels with no public web preview are not supported.

- **Tool id:** `scrapecreators-telegram-channel`
- **Provider:** [ScrapeCreators](/providers/scrapecreators)
- **Job:** [Get a public Telegram channel](/reference/jobs/telegram-channel-get) (`telegram.channel.get`)
- **Price:** $0.00188 per call. A call that fails at the provider costs $0.

## Inputs

| Name | Type | Required | Description |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| `cache_max_age` | string | no | Example: "7d" |
| `handle` | string | yes |   |

## Output

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

## Run it

Every call needs your API token in `LOOOT_TOKEN`; [Sign in](/get-started/sign-in#use-the-token-in-scripts-and-agents) 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:

<CodeGroup>

```bash curl
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","input":{"handle":"<handle>","cache_max_age":"7d"},"wait":30}'
```

```js JavaScript
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",
    input: {
      handle: "<handle>",
      cache_max_age: "7d",
    },
    wait: 30,
  }),
});
const run = await response.json();
console.log(run.status, run.result);
```

```python Python
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",
        "input": {
            "handle": "<handle>",
            "cache_max_age": "7d",
        },
        "wait": 30,
    },
    timeout=90,
)
run = response.json()
print(run["status"], run.get("result"))
```

</CodeGroup>

To let looot pick among every provider of this job instead, send `job:telegram.channel.get` as `endpointId`; see [the job page](/reference/jobs/telegram-channel-get).