Get Telegram similar channels

TikHub tool tikhub-api-telegram-web-fetch-similar-channels on looot: input fields, $0.001 per call, output shape, and code to run it with curl, JavaScript or Python.

Returns Telegram’s official “similar channels” recommendations (for channel discovery). Send channel (Channel username). Returns list of similar channels (title/username/subscribers, etc.).

• Tool id: tikhub-api-telegram-web-fetch-similar-channels
• Provider: TikHub
• Job: Fetch similar channels api telegram web (api.telegram.web.fetch-similar-channels)
• Price: $0.001 per call. A call that fails at the provider costs $0.

Inputs

Output

Shape of the run’s result, checked against 2 real answers:

{ code, data: { note, channel, similar: unknown[], mtproto_required }, docs, time, params: { channel }, router, message, support, cache_url, time_zone, message_zh, request_id, time_stamp, cache_message, cache_message_zh }

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":"tikhub-api-telegram-web-fetch-similar-channels","input":{"channel":"<channel>"},"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: "tikhub-api-telegram-web-fetch-similar-channels",
    input: {
      channel: "<channel>",
    },
    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": "tikhub-api-telegram-web-fetch-similar-channels",
        "input": {
            "channel": "<channel>",
        },
        "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:api.telegram.web.fetch-similar-channels as endpointId; see the job page.