Day 5 of building one commercial API every day for 60 days.
Today's is the one I'm most surprised nobody has nailed: reading public Telegram channels as clean JSON.
The gap
Telegram has roughly a billion monthly users. Huge crypto communities, news channels, OSINT sources, brands — all posting in public channels anyone can read in a browser.
But there's no official API to read a channel you don't own. The Bot API only sees chats your bot is in. MTProto means spinning up a full client session, phone-number auth, and a library most people don't want in their stack. If you just want "give me @durov's latest posts as JSON," you're out of luck.
