Show HN: Read public Telegram channels without an API key, phone or account

Category: cli-tool

Tags: telegram, scraping, osint, jsonl, cron

Score: 5.5/10 (Innovation: 5, Technical: 4, Documentation: 7, Utility: 6)

tme-s is a single-file Python script that scrapes the public web preview of Telegram channels (t.me/s/) to output posts as JSON lines without requiring an API key, phone number, or account. It offers incremental state tracking for cron-based monitoring and filtering, making it a lightweight OSINT tool for public channels.

Target audience: OSINT researchers, security analysts, data engineers

Repository: https://github.com/axmaier/tme-s · Python · MIT

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