{
 "meta": {
  "dataset": "Subscriber history — @MechEngineers",
  "channel": "https://tgregister.com/channel/MechEngineers",
  "retrieved_at": "2026-09-01T17:54:09.651Z",
  "licence": "CC BY 4.0 — attribute to tgregister.com",
  "n_readings": 9,
  "window": {
   "from": "2026-08-05T18:41:27.654Z",
   "to": "2026-08-29T13:29:01.931Z"
  },
  "columns": {
   "ts": "when this reading was taken, UTC",
   "subscribers": "the count read (or, for source 3, carried over) — see source below",
   "source": {
    "0": "sweep.py — t.me/<name> profile page",
    "1": "promote.py — Bot API getChat",
    "2": "resolve.py — MTProto",
    "3": "spromote.py — t.me/s/<name> post preview (figure carried over from an earlier profile read, not the preview’s own rounded header)",
    "4": "remeasure.py — t.me/<name> profile page, re-read on a schedule"
   }
  },
  "note": "Snapshots are written only when a reading changes: a gap in ts means \"no change observed between readings\", never \"not measured\" and never \"interpolated\". Readings from different sources are separate lineages that do not confirm one another — subtracting across them can attribute a change to a period nothing was actually read in. Full method: https://tgregister.com/methodology#measuring"
 },
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   "ts": "2026-08-05T18:41:27.654Z",
   "subscribers": 7257,
   "source": 1
  },
  {
   "ts": "2026-08-06T22:21:02.616Z",
   "subscribers": 7258,
   "source": 4
  },
  {
   "ts": "2026-08-09T20:31:07.959Z",
   "subscribers": 7266,
   "source": 4
  },
  {
   "ts": "2026-08-13T07:15:29.723Z",
   "subscribers": 7269,
   "source": 4
  },
  {
   "ts": "2026-08-16T20:05:09.206Z",
   "subscribers": 7273,
   "source": 4
  },
  {
   "ts": "2026-08-20T00:18:19.277Z",
   "subscribers": 7278,
   "source": 4
  },
  {
   "ts": "2026-08-23T12:25:05.771Z",
   "subscribers": 7281,
   "source": 4
  },
  {
   "ts": "2026-08-26T21:55:59.440Z",
   "subscribers": 7286,
   "source": 4
  },
  {
   "ts": "2026-08-29T13:29:01.931Z",
   "subscribers": 7285,
   "source": 4
  }
 ]
}