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Telegram MCP

chigwell/telegram-mcp exposes Telegram via Telethon so MCP clients can read chats, manage groups, and send or edit messages and media. Install from the GitHub repo (the PyPI name telegram-mcp is a different project).

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License

Apache-2.0

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MCP

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  • Stars: 1.3k · catalog
  • Freshness: Updated 2026-06-15
  • Used in 1 known stack

Prerequisites

  • · Host app that loads MCP config (Cursor, Claude Desktop, etc.)
  • · Environment: TELEGRAM_API_ID
  • · Environment: TELEGRAM_API_HASH
  • · Python 3 + pip

Reference command

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "telegram-mcp": {
      "command": "uv",
      "args": [
        "--directory",
        "<path-to-telegram-mcp>",
        "run",
        "main.py"
      ],
      "env": {
        "TELEGRAM_API_ID": "<YOUR_API_ID>",
        "TELEGRAM_API_HASH": "<YOUR_API_HASH>"
      }
    }
  }
}

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