This list provides an overview of useful data collection tools that can be used for research on Telegram. If you face problems or issues with one of the applications on the list, feel free to post an Issue. It helps us to maintain this list.

Table of contents

• API-Tools
  • Tegracli
  • Telepathy
  • F-R-O-G
• Helper tools
  • Telebrella
  • Telemetrio

API-Tools

tegracli

A Telegram/telethon research convenience wrapper for the terminal.

Telepathy

Telepathy: An OSINT toolkit for investigating Telegram chats.

F-R-O-G

FROG: A tool for gathering Telegram sample data with a graphic user interface (no coding neccessary).

Helper tools

Telebrella

Look up telegram accounts to see what groups they are in.

Limitations

At the moment (Aug. 22) only 1747 groups in its database.

telemetrio

Channel index with various rankings and stats per channel.