Telethon-powered MCP server for connecting Claude to Telegram accounts, chats, messages, contacts, media, folders, groups, channels, profile settings, and read-only or full account workflows.
Telegram MCP Server can read chats and messages, send, schedule, edit, delete, forward, and pin messages, mark chats read, create polls, press inline buttons, manage contacts, manage groups and channels, upload or download media, and update profile settings when write tools are exposed., A Telegram session string has the normal authority of the Telegram account inside the server process; read-only mode limits the MCP tool surface but does not reduce the underlying session authority., The upstream README warns that the PyPI `telegram-mcp` name is owned by a different project, so do not pass Telegram API credentials or session strings to that package., File-path tools are disabled until allowed roots are configured; keep upload and download roots narrow when enabling media or file operations., Require human approval before sending, editing, deleting, forwarding, pinning, reacting, inviting, banning, changing permissions, or updating profile and privacy settings., Use separate Telegram accounts for testing, monitor Telegram rate limits and platform rules, and keep proxies or multi-account routing explicit.
Privacy notes
Telegram API IDs, API hashes, session strings, account labels, chat titles, usernames, phone-adjacent identifiers, messages, media, contacts, group membership, profile photos, user status, read receipts, drafts, and folder metadata can be exposed to the MCP client., Chat history and media can contain private conversations, personal data, business records, access links, invite links, documents, photos, voice notes, stickers, GIFs, and user-controlled prompt-injection text., The project includes output sanitization for user-controlled content, but sanitized Telegram content should still be treated as untrusted model input., Store session strings like passwords, keep them out of shell history and shared logs, and revoke sessions if they are exposed., Review MCP transcripts, downloaded media folders, Telegram session files, and proxy logs before sharing or retaining them.
Author
chigwell
Submitted by
oktofeesh1
Claim status
unclaimed
Last verified
2026-06-06
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6 safety and 5 privacy notes across 5 risk areas. Review closely: credentials & tokens, permissions & scopes, network access.
5 areas
SafetyNetwork accessTelegram MCP Server can read chats and messages, send, schedule, edit, delete, forward, and pin messages, mark chats read, create polls, press inline buttons, manage contacts, manage groups and channels, upload or download media, and update profile settings when write tools are exposed.
SafetyCredentials & tokensA Telegram session string has the normal authority of the Telegram account inside the server process; read-only mode limits the MCP tool surface but does not reduce the underlying session authority.
SafetyCredentials & tokensThe upstream README warns that the PyPI `telegram-mcp` name is owned by a different project, so do not pass Telegram API credentials or session strings to that package.
SafetyNetwork accessFile-path tools are disabled until allowed roots are configured; keep upload and download roots narrow when enabling media or file operations.
SafetyPermissions & scopesRequire human approval before sending, editing, deleting, forwarding, pinning, reacting, inviting, banning, changing permissions, or updating profile and privacy settings.
SafetyGeneralUse separate Telegram accounts for testing, monitor Telegram rate limits and platform rules, and keep proxies or multi-account routing explicit.
PrivacyCredentials & tokensTelegram API IDs, API hashes, session strings, account labels, chat titles, usernames, phone-adjacent identifiers, messages, media, contacts, group membership, profile photos, user status, read receipts, drafts, and folder metadata can be exposed to the MCP client.
PrivacyData retentionChat history and media can contain private conversations, personal data, business records, access links, invite links, documents, photos, voice notes, stickers, GIFs, and user-controlled prompt-injection text.
PrivacyGeneralThe project includes output sanitization for user-controlled content, but sanitized Telegram content should still be treated as untrusted model input.
PrivacyCredentials & tokensStore session strings like passwords, keep them out of shell history and shared logs, and revoke sessions if they are exposed.
PrivacyCredentials & tokensReview MCP transcripts, downloaded media folders, Telegram session files, and proxy logs before sharing or retaining them.
Disclosure: Community-maintained Apache-2.0 MCP server for Telegram via Telethon. The repository explicitly warns that the PyPI `telegram-mcp` name is unrelated, so install from a trusted source checkout or explicit Git URL.
Safety notes
Telegram MCP Server can read chats and messages, send, schedule, edit, delete, forward, and pin messages, mark chats read, create polls, press inline buttons, manage contacts, manage groups and channels, upload or download media, and update profile settings when write tools are exposed.
A Telegram session string has the normal authority of the Telegram account inside the server process; read-only mode limits the MCP tool surface but does not reduce the underlying session authority.
The upstream README warns that the PyPI `telegram-mcp` name is owned by a different project, so do not pass Telegram API credentials or session strings to that package.
File-path tools are disabled until allowed roots are configured; keep upload and download roots narrow when enabling media or file operations.
Require human approval before sending, editing, deleting, forwarding, pinning, reacting, inviting, banning, changing permissions, or updating profile and privacy settings.
Use separate Telegram accounts for testing, monitor Telegram rate limits and platform rules, and keep proxies or multi-account routing explicit.
Privacy notes
Telegram API IDs, API hashes, session strings, account labels, chat titles, usernames, phone-adjacent identifiers, messages, media, contacts, group membership, profile photos, user status, read receipts, drafts, and folder metadata can be exposed to the MCP client.
Chat history and media can contain private conversations, personal data, business records, access links, invite links, documents, photos, voice notes, stickers, GIFs, and user-controlled prompt-injection text.
The project includes output sanitization for user-controlled content, but sanitized Telegram content should still be treated as untrusted model input.
Store session strings like passwords, keep them out of shell history and shared logs, and revoke sessions if they are exposed.
Review MCP transcripts, downloaded media folders, Telegram session files, and proxy logs before sharing or retaining them.
Prerequisites
Python 3.10 or newer with `uv` available.
A trusted checkout of `https://github.com/chigwell/telegram-mcp`; do not use the unrelated PyPI package with the same distribution name.
Telegram API credentials from `my.telegram.org/apps`.
A Telegram session string or file-based session generated from the trusted checkout.
Review of which accounts, chats, groups, contacts, media paths, and write tools Claude is allowed to access.
Start with `TELEGRAM_EXPOSED_TOOLS=read-only` unless the workflow explicitly needs message, account, contact, group, profile, or media mutations.
Schema details
Install type
cli
Troubleshooting
No
Source repository stats
Scope
Source repo
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Estimated setup
30 minutes
Difficulty
advanced
Tool listing metadata
Disclosure
Community-maintained Apache-2.0 MCP server for Telegram via Telethon. The repository explicitly warns that the PyPI `telegram-mcp` name is unrelated, so install from a trusted source checkout or explicit Git URL.
Telegram MCP Server connects Claude and other MCP clients to Telegram through
Telethon. It exposes tools for Telegram accounts, chats, messages, contacts,
media, folders, groups, channels, profile settings, and multi-account routing.
Use it when Claude needs supervised Telegram context or automation, starting
with read-only tools for chat review and account inspection before enabling
message or account-changing actions.
These sources were reviewed on 2026-06-06. Prefer the live repository,
README, license, package manifest, environment template, compatibility
entrypoint, sanitizer, install guard, and runtime implementation for current
setup and behavior details.
Features
List configured Telegram accounts and route calls by account label.
List chats, inspect chat metadata, and search message history.
Read messages, inspect context, mark chats read, and manage drafts.
Send, schedule, edit, delete, forward, pin, unpin, reply to, and react to
messages when write tools are exposed.
Create polls and inspect or press inline buttons.
Manage contacts, blocks, direct chats, and recent interactions.
Send, upload, download, and inspect media when allowed file roots are
configured.
Create and manage groups, channels, admins, bans, permissions, topics, slow
mode, invite links, and read receipts.
Inspect and update profile, privacy, bot-command, folder, and draft state.
Limit exposed MCP tools to read-only mode with TELEGRAM_EXPOSED_TOOLS.
Installation
Clone the trusted repository, install dependencies, and generate a Telegram
session string from the checkout before configuring Claude:
Claude Code users can add a read-only default configuration with:
claude mcp add telegram-mcp --env TELEGRAM_API_ID=YOUR_TELEGRAM_API_ID --env TELEGRAM_API_HASH=YOUR_TELEGRAM_API_HASH --env TELEGRAM_SESSION_STRING=YOUR_TELEGRAM_SESSION_STRING --env TELEGRAM_EXPOSED_TOOLS=read-only -- uv --directory PATH_TO_TELEGRAM_MCP_CHECKOUT run main.py
Only remove TELEGRAM_EXPOSED_TOOLS=read-only after reviewing the write tools
and setting account, media-path, and approval boundaries.
Use Cases
Summarize unread Telegram chats for a supervised account.
Search chat history for a message, file, link, or conversation context.
Draft a response and ask for human approval before sending it manually or via
an exposed write tool.
Inspect group or channel metadata during community moderation.
Export selected contact or chat context for a customer-support workflow.
Download approved media into a narrow allowed root for later processing.
Manage drafts and folders for a dedicated automation account.
Safety and Privacy
Telegram MCP Server should be treated as account automation. Use a dedicated
Telegram account for testing, keep session strings secret, and leave read-only
mode enabled unless the workflow truly needs account-changing tools.
Never install this server from the unrelated PyPI package named telegram-mcp.
Run it from a trusted checkout or an explicit Git URL, and do not paste real
Telegram credentials into package managers, logs, issue comments, or shared
model transcripts.
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How it compares
Telegram MCP Server side by side with 3 alternatives on trust, install, platform support, and disclosed safety notes — all from reviewed registry metadata.
1 trust signal differ across this comparison (Submitter).
Telethon-powered MCP server for connecting Claude to Telegram accounts, chats, messages, contacts, media, folders, groups, channels, profile settings, and read-only or full account workflows.
Official LINE MCP server that connects Claude and other AI agents to the LINE Messaging API for push messages, broadcasts, profile lookup, quotas, follower IDs, and rich-menu management.
Real-time product search and price comparison across 11M+ products from Singapore, Southeast Asia, and US marketplaces via a remote streamable-HTTP MCP endpoint with API key auth.
✓Telegram MCP Server can read chats and messages, send, schedule, edit, delete, forward, and pin messages, mark chats read, create polls, press inline buttons, manage contacts, manage groups and channels, upload or download media, and update profile settings when write tools are exposed.
A Telegram session string has the normal authority of the Telegram account inside the server process; read-only mode limits the MCP tool surface but does not reduce the underlying session authority.
The upstream README warns that the PyPI `telegram-mcp` name is owned by a different project, so do not pass Telegram API credentials or session strings to that package.
File-path tools are disabled until allowed roots are configured; keep upload and download roots narrow when enabling media or file operations.
Require human approval before sending, editing, deleting, forwarding, pinning, reacting, inviting, banning, changing permissions, or updating profile and privacy settings.
Use separate Telegram accounts for testing, monitor Telegram rate limits and platform rules, and keep proxies or multi-account routing explicit.
✓LINE Bot MCP Server can push text and flex messages to users, broadcast messages to all followers, retrieve follower IDs, inspect profiles, check message quotas, create rich menus, set default rich menus, cancel defaults, and delete rich menus.
Broadcast and rich-menu tools can affect every user following the connected LINE Official Account, so require human approval before running them in production.
Push-message tools can contact individual users directly; confirm the target `userId`, message body, and account context before sending.
Rich-menu tools can upload generated menu images and change user-facing navigation for the account.
Use least-privilege channel tokens where possible, keep test and production LINE accounts separate, and monitor quota consumption.
The upstream README marks the project as a preview version for experimental use with potentially incomplete functionality or support.
✓AI Game Developer can create, move, copy, modify, and delete Unity assets, scenes, GameObjects, components, scripts, packages, and generated project files.
Tools include dynamic C# script execution, C# reflection method lookup and calls, package installation/removal, Unity test execution, editor state changes, play mode control, screenshots, and profiler access.
The MCP server supports streamable HTTP and stdio; HTTP deployments should require a bearer token and stay bound to trusted interfaces.
Server variables include optional authorization and webhook settings; webhook endpoints can receive tool, prompt, resource, connection, and authorization events.
Unity runtime connections can expose compiled game state or in-game behavior to an MCP client, not just editor-only project data.
Use source control, backups, tool filtering, and explicit review before allowing destructive tools such as asset deletion, package removal, script execution, or reflection calls.
✓Read-only product catalog access by default; no write or delete operations exposed.
API key should be stored in the MCP client config or environment, never committed.
Privacy notes
✓Telegram API IDs, API hashes, session strings, account labels, chat titles, usernames, phone-adjacent identifiers, messages, media, contacts, group membership, profile photos, user status, read receipts, drafts, and folder metadata can be exposed to the MCP client.
Chat history and media can contain private conversations, personal data, business records, access links, invite links, documents, photos, voice notes, stickers, GIFs, and user-controlled prompt-injection text.
The project includes output sanitization for user-controlled content, but sanitized Telegram content should still be treated as untrusted model input.
Store session strings like passwords, keep them out of shell history and shared logs, and revoke sessions if they are exposed.
Review MCP transcripts, downloaded media folders, Telegram session files, and proxy logs before sharing or retaining them.
✓Channel access tokens, destination user IDs, follower IDs, profile display names, profile picture URLs, status messages, language, message contents, flex-message JSON, and rich-menu IDs can be exposed to the MCP client.
Broadcast prompts, generated messages, user IDs, and profile results may be retained in MCP client logs, terminal history, model context, or chat transcripts.
Treat LINE Official Account credentials and recipient identifiers as secrets, and avoid pasting real tokens or user IDs into shared logs.
Review LINE platform policies and internal consent requirements before retrieving follower IDs or using AI-generated outbound messages.
✓Tool calls may expose Unity project paths, asset names, scene hierarchy, serialized object data, scripts, logs, screenshots, profiler metrics, test output, package metadata, and runtime state.
MCP config files and Unity plugin config can contain server URLs, connection modes, bearer tokens, authorization settings, enabled tool IDs, and cloud or local endpoint details.
Optional webhooks can receive tool, prompt, resource, connection, authorization, and token-bearing request data.
Screenshots from Game View, Scene View, cameras, or isolated GameObjects may include proprietary artwork, level design, UI, debug overlays, or unreleased game content.
Generated skills and AI-client configuration files can reveal available tools, project structure, installed packages, and local workflow assumptions.
✓BuyWhere API key is sent as a Bearer token in the Authorization header on every request.
Search queries are sent to BuyWhere's API to retrieve product data; no third-party analytics or telemetry is included in MCP responses.
BuyWhere may log API request metadata (endpoint, timestamp, status) for abuse prevention and billing.
Prerequisites
Python 3.10 or newer with `uv` available.
A trusted checkout of `https://github.com/chigwell/telegram-mcp`; do not use the unrelated PyPI package with the same distribution name.
Telegram API credentials from `my.telegram.org/apps`.
A Telegram session string or file-based session generated from the trusted checkout.
Node.js 22 or newer for the published npm package.
A LINE Official Account with the Messaging API enabled.
A LINE channel access token with the permissions needed for the intended tools.
A destination user ID when using the default recipient flow for push-message tools.
Unity project using Unity 2022.3 or newer for the current package metadata.
Unity Hub or a local Unity Editor installation.
Node.js 20.19 or newer, or Node.js 22.12 or newer, for `unity-mcp-cli`.
An MCP client such as Claude Code, Claude Desktop, Codex, Cursor, Gemini CLI, GitHub Copilot, Cline, or another supported client.
A BuyWhere API key (free at https://buywhere.ai/api-keys).
An MCP client such as Claude Code, Claude Desktop, Cursor, Windsurf, or any MCP-compatible host.
Network access to https://api.buywhere.ai.
Install
uv --directory PATH_TO_TELEGRAM_MCP_CHECKOUT run main.py