FAQ

Yes! Telegram Monitoring is free to use, as long as you stick to our terms of use.

This tool is especially useful for students, researchers, and journalists who want to explore and analyze Telegram data quickly, conveniently and without setting up their own crawling stack.

Typical use cases include:

• students working on Bachelor's or Master's theses,
• seminars or workshops dealing with real-world datasets,
• researchers running quick exploratory analyses,
• journalists who need fast insights.

Telegram Monitoring provides a fast and user-friendly way to gain an initial overview of Telegram channels and topics.

To keep the service free of charge, the tool is highly standardized and may not be suitable for larger research projects that require significant customization.

We're designing a concept called Create-your-own-Dataset, which will let you define your own crawl parameters and build customized datasets. It's not live yet, and it probably won't be part of the free tier, but stay tuned.

You can export up to 10,000 messages per dataset.

We set this limit to prevent full-scale data extraction with just one click. Maybe we'll offer more in the future, but likely not in the free version.

Our crawling logic is documented here on our Methodology page.

You can reach us via email at moin@data4transparency.com.

Please note that we do not have a formal support service. However, we will do our best to get back to you as quickly as possible.

Just send us an email at moin@data4transparency.com and we'll handle the rest.