Look up a public Telegram channel: title, description, exact subscriber count, creation date, verification and scam flags, and how often it posts. Use to check whether a channel is real, how large it is, and whether it is still alive — a channel with 200k subscribers and nothing published this year is a common and invisible failure.

Return the channels Telegram itself recommends alongside a given channel — its own topical judgement, not a keyword match, so it surfaces channels that share an audience without sharing vocabulary. The way to discover channels whose names you do not already know: start from one you do and walk outward. Large channels return roughly a dozen; small or very new ones return none.

Telegram's own global search over public channels and groups, by title and handle. Good for seeding a topic; telegram_similar_channels is what expands a seed into a neighbourhood. Short topical words work better than sentences.