{
 "meta": {
  "dataset": "Subscriber history — @theprogrammingart",
  "channel": "https://tgregister.com/channel/theprogrammingart",
  "retrieved_at": "2026-08-15T09:04:35.352Z",
  "licence": "CC BY 4.0 — attribute to tgregister.com",
  "n_readings": 10,
  "window": {
   "from": "2026-08-05T18:15:39.342Z",
   "to": "2026-08-14T17:55:10.602Z"
  },
  "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": "2026-08-05T18:15:39.342Z",
   "subscribers": 44533,
   "source": 1
  },
  {
   "ts": "2026-08-06T18:10:22.658Z",
   "subscribers": 44510,
   "source": 4
  },
  {
   "ts": "2026-08-07T14:57:43.276Z",
   "subscribers": 44505,
   "source": 4
  },
  {
   "ts": "2026-08-08T12:46:29.227Z",
   "subscribers": 44492,
   "source": 4
  },
  {
   "ts": "2026-08-09T10:52:03.084Z",
   "subscribers": 44472,
   "source": 4
  },
  {
   "ts": "2026-08-10T11:08:43.774Z",
   "subscribers": 44453,
   "source": 4
  },
  {
   "ts": "2026-08-11T14:42:51.930Z",
   "subscribers": 44423,
   "source": 4
  },
  {
   "ts": "2026-08-12T11:28:47.028Z",
   "subscribers": 44419,
   "source": 4
  },
  {
   "ts": "2026-08-13T10:37:52.923Z",
   "subscribers": 44406,
   "source": 4
  },
  {
   "ts": "2026-08-14T17:55:10.602Z",
   "subscribers": 44401,
   "source": 4
  }
 ]
}