找到一个Telegram通道成员计数没有PHP中的任何库

Question

I am trying to find a Telegram channel members count without any libraries in php.

When we open this link we can see the count: https://t.me/{telegram channel id}/ Is it possible to extract the count with file_get_contents function?

Answer 1

The short answer is "yes, it is possible":

$html = file_get_contents('https://t.me/CHANNEL_NAME');

preg_match_all('#(.*?) members, (.*?) online#', $html, $matches);

$members = (int) filter_var($matches[1][0], FILTER_SANITIZE_NUMBER_INT);
$online  = (int) filter_var($matches[2][0], FILTER_SANITIZE_NUMBER_INT);

However, this way is unreliable: telegram devs may change their HTML structure and this answer become out-of-date.