Laravel Telegram Channel API

An unofficial Laravel-based API for retrieving public Telegram channel information, statistics, and messages using the MTProto protocol.

🚀 Quick Start

# Clone the repository
git clone https://github.com/ArcInTower/telegram-channel-api.git
cd telegram-channel-api

# Install dependencies
composer install

# Configure environment
cp .env.example .env
php artisan key:generate

# Add your Telegram API credentials to .env
TELEGRAM_API_ID=your_api_id
TELEGRAM_API_HASH=your_api_hash

# Run migrations and authenticate
php artisan migrate
php artisan telegram:login

# Start the server
php artisan serve

🧪 Testing

By default, tests run without hitting external services:

php artisan test

To run integration tests (may disconnect Telegram session):

php artisan test:integration

📖 Documentation

For complete documentation including:

• API endpoint reference
• Authentication setup
• Configuration options
• Advanced features
• Deployment guides

Visit: https://api-telegram.repostea.com

🛸 Key Features

• Channel Statistics: Get detailed analytics for any public channel
• Message Retrieval: Fetch last message IDs with caching
• Channel Comparison: Compare multiple channels side-by-side
• User Privacy: Built-in user anonymization support
• Channel Blocking: Exclude specific channels from API access
• JSON:API 1.1: Fully compliant RESTful API

🔧 Requirements

• PHP 8.2+
• Laravel 12
• SQLite/MySQL/PostgreSQL
• Telegram API credentials from my.telegram.org

📝 License

This project is open-sourced software licensed under the MIT license.