Top VPN mini-apps on Telegram

The top-ranked VPN Telegram mini-app currently tracked by Telegram Ads Spy is @need with 1,177,341 active users. Top 3 by monthly active users: @need, @ejxbot, @EJX_bot. 100 total VPN mini-apps indexed in this niche. Ranking is by botActiveUsers (Telegram-reported MAU) with popularBotsRank as a secondary sort.

Bots with botHasMainApp=true and a non-null botNiche are eligible. The classifier runs the bot's public profile description, recent messages and category metadata through a regex-based niche detector — the same logic used for advertiser classification. Manual overrides for edge cases. See https://tgadsspy.com/info/niche for the full decision rules.

Yes — https://tgadsspy.com/api/v1/miniapps?niche=vpn returns this leaderboard as JSON; https://tgadsspy.com/api/v1/miniapps.csv?niche=vpn for flat CSV (10 columns: username, title, niche, mau, stars_level, popular_bots_rank, sponsored_enabled, avatar_url, last_enriched_at, profile_url). Researcher-friendly for academic mini-app ecosystem studies. CC-BY-4.0 license. X-Api-Key required for higher rate limits.