diff --git a/snscrape/modules/telegram.py b/snscrape/modules/telegram.py
index 16f2dc5..2e1322f 100644
--- a/snscrape/modules/telegram.py
+++ b/snscrape/modules/telegram.py
@@ -270,8 +270,12 @@ class TelegramChannelScraper(snscrape.base.Scraper):
 			raise snscrape.base.ScraperException(f'Got status code {r.status_code}')
 		soup = bs4.BeautifulSoup(r.text, 'lxml')
 		membersDiv = soup.find('div', class_ = 'tgme_page_extra')
-		if membersDiv.text.endswith((' members', ' subscribers')):
-			kwargs['members'] = int(''.join(membersDiv.text.split(' ')[:-1]))
+		if membersDiv.text.split(',')[0].endswith((' members', ' subscribers')):
+			membersStr = ''.join(membersDiv.text.split(',')[0].split(' ')[:-1])
+			if membersStr == 'no':
+				kwargs['members'] = 0
+			else:
+				kwargs['members'] = int(membersStr)
 		photoImg = soup.find('img', class_ = 'tgme_page_photo_image')
 		if photoImg is not None:
 			kwargs['photo'] = photoImg.attrs['src']