Telegram feed plans

Telegram channel feeds are free for normal use. Tools that check many feeds very often need a key.

Plans

Plans are monthly and can be cancelled at any time; the key keeps working until the end of the month you paid for.

What counts as a request

Each fetch of a feed URL is one request. A feed is refreshed from Telegram at most once every 10 minutes, so checking more often than that uses requests without bringing new posts. Six channels checked every hour is 144 requests a day.

Without a key, requests are counted per network (IP address), and also per program for tools that name themselves in their user agent, so a tool spread over many addresses counts once. Hosted readers that fetch a feed once for all their users, such as Feedly and Inoreader, are not limited. Counts reset at 00:00 UTC.

Over the limit, the feed returns a single item that says so instead of the posts. Every feed response carries x-ratelimit-limit and x-ratelimit-remaining headers.

Using a key

Add ?key= and your key to each feed URL, for example https://purfled.com/rss/telegram/durov?key=pk_…. Keep the key private: anyone who has it can use your allowance.

Getting a key

Email [email protected] with the plan you want. You will get a payment link (card or PayPal) and then your key, usually within a day.

Keys cannot be sold to people in countries under broad UK sanctions. The free limit applies there as everywhere else.