What datool.ru is

datool.ru is a messenger analytics service. Right now it covers MAX: we regularly read all public MAX channels and show subscribers, views, reach, engagement, ads, mentions and indexes for each of them. This article is a short introduction: who the service is for, what it offers and where to find things.

Who it is for

What the service does

• Channel catalog and search — by name, link or @handle, with filters by category and territory. Details — Finding channels, Categories and territories.
• Channel page — a dashboard with the key numbers plus tabs: posts, audience analysis, mentions, popular, reach, posting schedule, ads, similar channels, engagement. Details — Channel page.
• Ratings, “Today in MAX” and “MAX statistics” — who is bigger, who is growing, what is happening in MAX today and overall. Details — Ratings, Today in MAX, MAX statistics.
• Indexes — the quality index (is the channel alive and can it be trusted) and the citation index (how often other channels refer to it).
• “My MAX” — channels you follow, favorites with folders, keyword tracking, PDF reports and exports, an event feed. Details — My MAX.
• For channel owners — channel verification, the blue badge, your own categories and region, detailed statistics of your channel without a subscription. Details — Add a channel, Owner verification.
• Account — organization and members, subscriptions, balance, API keys, notifications. Details — Account.
• API and MCP — MAX data in your software, spreadsheets and AI assistants. Details — API reference.

Service addresses

datool.ru has several subdomains, each with its own job. One account works across all of them.

Dzen, VK and Telegram will come later — the site header marks them “coming soon”.

What data we have

• All public MAX channels we have found — more than half a million. Exact numbers are on the max.datool.ru home page and on the “MAX statistics” page.
• The full post history of every public channel — from its very first post, not just from the day the channel reached us.
• Subscribers by day — from the day we started watching the channel: MAX does not provide past numbers.
• Views and reactions of posts, links and reposts between channels (they power mentions and the citation index), signs of advertising.
• Group chats — only the card and counters: name, number of members, number of messages, time of the last event.

How often everything is updated — see Where the data comes from and how often it is updated.

What we never collect

• Private conversations — in no network and under no circumstances.
• Group chat messages — a chat has only its card and counters.
• Comments on posts — neither the texts, nor the authors, nor their number.
• Who voted how in polls — for a poll we keep only the question, the answer options and the total number of votes.
• Closed channels — only if the owner has connected the datool.ru bot to the channel. Such a channel is visible only to the owner's organization, and we do not copy its images.

What's next

• Sign-up and sign-in — how to create an account.
• How the site works — header, menu, account.
• What you see without signing in, after signing in and with a subscription.
• Plans and payment.
• FAQ.