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 "meta": {
  "dataset": "Subscriber history — @hardlab_chat",
  "channel": "https://tgregister.com/channel/hardlab_chat",
  "retrieved_at": "2026-09-06T18:37:49.254Z",
  "licence": "CC BY 4.0 — attribute to tgregister.com",
  "n_readings": 13,
  "window": {
   "from": "2026-08-07T14:02:24.744Z",
   "to": "2026-09-04T08:40:51.481Z"
  },
  "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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   "subscribers": 7346,
   "source": 0
  },
  {
   "ts": "2026-08-07T23:55:44.786Z",
   "subscribers": 7608,
   "source": 4
  },
  {
   "ts": "2026-08-10T18:03:44.836Z",
   "subscribers": 8437,
   "source": 4
  },
  {
   "ts": "2026-08-14T01:43:30.785Z",
   "subscribers": 8729,
   "source": 4
  },
  {
   "ts": "2026-08-17T10:48:20.562Z",
   "subscribers": 8721,
   "source": 4
  },
  {
   "ts": "2026-08-20T09:46:29.053Z",
   "subscribers": 9092,
   "source": 4
  },
  {
   "ts": "2026-08-23T21:55:15.840Z",
   "subscribers": 9274,
   "source": 4
  },
  {
   "ts": "2026-08-23T21:59:44.339Z",
   "subscribers": 9274,
   "source": 1
  },
  {
   "ts": "2026-08-26T16:55:02.119Z",
   "subscribers": 9705,
   "source": 4
  },
  {
   "ts": "2026-08-29T12:05:10.779Z",
   "subscribers": 9940,
   "source": 4
  },
  {
   "ts": "2026-09-01T21:25:21.179Z",
   "subscribers": 10104,
   "source": 4
  },
  {
   "ts": "2026-09-02T22:26:21.552Z",
   "subscribers": 10230,
   "source": 4
  },
  {
   "ts": "2026-09-04T08:40:51.481Z",
   "subscribers": 10362,
   "source": 4
  }
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