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I want to learn more about telegram channel's post view count system. How does it work ? and what are the API (in VB) parts involved regarding to this.

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I had this question too. To get the answer I created a private channel and added one of my friends to it and posted some text. So only 2 people were in the channel and as the channel was private no one else had the chance of visiting the channel. After some days I understood that posts' view count increases and after searching a lot I understood that telegram counts view times when a specific user sees the post and this is repeated every 24 hours.

For example if you view a post today at 8:00 pm, other views will not count until tomorrow 8:00 pm and this cycle continues.

Update: After reading Krishnakanth Allika's comment, I decided to update my answer in order to help those who are visiting this page a long time after the date the post was published. Telegram mentions in this link that these stats are reset about every 4 days which is a more up-to-date information.

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  • I didn't know this – THEGREY Mar 03 '17 at 23:48
  • @THEGREY Me too, and I almost found nothing about it on the net. So I decided to test it my self. It's something like youtube's videos' view count every time you play it, the count increases but in Telegram it happens every 24 hour. – Naser.Sadeghi Mar 04 '17 at 08:13
  • you can contact me : t.me/code4343 – THEGREY Mar 04 '17 at 11:48
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    Here's a link to Telegram's FAQ on this topic: https://telegram.org/faq_channels#q-what-does-the-eye-icon-mean Telegram forgets every 4 days and counts as a new view even if it's the same user visiting after that period. – Krishnakanth Allika Dec 09 '21 at 11:27
  • @KrishnakanthAllika Telegram's algorithm used to forget these records every 24 hours by the time I posted this answer. It might have updated this feature. Thanks for your comment. I edited the answer. – Naser.Sadeghi Dec 09 '21 at 21:19
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You can't have this number from Telegram Bot, but you can get from post-link. For example link to post https://t.me/losslesmusic/443
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The counter is this:

> <span class="tgme_widget_message_views">55</span><span
> class="copyonly"> views</span><span
> class="tgme_widget_message_meta"><a class="tgme_widget_message_date"
> href="https://t.me/losslesmusic/443"><time
> datetime="2018-02-26T19:14:11+00:00">Feb 26 at 21:14</time></a></span>
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