telegram-mcp

Built by Shreyas · Shipped by Globalion

Turn any Telegram bot into a chat-first AI assistant. Sign in with Google, paste your BotFather token, message your bot. Bonus: MCP tools let external agents (Claude Desktop, Cursor, custom scripts) push notifications to your bot and read your recent conversation history.

• Chat via your own Telegram bot — you own the token, you own the data.

• MCP over streamable-HTTP — plug into Claude Desktop, Cursor, etc.

• OpenRouter under the hood — swap models freely (Claude 5, GPT, Gemini).

• Self-host in one Docker Compose command if you don't want us in the loop.

Hosted for free at telegram.regiq.in.

Use it (hosted)

As a chat assistant (main use case)

1. Visit https://telegram.regiq.in and sign in with Google.

2. In Telegram, DM @BotFather → /newbot, follow prompts, copy the token.

3. Paste the token in the Telegram bot panel on your dashboard.

4. Open your bot on Telegram, send /start, then chat with it in plain English.

Commands your bot understands:

• Any plain-English message → assistant replies with memory of the conversation

• /reset → clears conversation history

• /start → welcome message

As an MCP tool (optional)

If you want your Claude Desktop / Cursor agent to push messages into your Telegram bot:

1. On the dashboard, generate an MCP API key.

2. Add to claude_desktop_config.json:

   {
     "mcpServers": {
       "telegram": {
         "url": "https://telegram.regiq.in/api/mcp",
         "headers": {
           "Authorization": "Bearer YOUR_KEY_HERE"
         }
       }
     }
   }

3. Restart Claude Desktop. Now your agent has:

   • send_telegram_message(text) — notify you on Telegram

   • list_recent_messages(max) — read recent bot history

Great for: long-running job notifications, scheduled reminders, agent-to-human handoff.

Related MCP server: tgmcp

Tools

Self-host

You'll need:

• Docker + Compose

• A Google OAuth client — Cloud Console. Scopes: openid, email, profile. Redirect: <PUBLIC_BASE_URL>/api/auth/callback/google

• An OpenRouter API key — openrouter.ai/keys

• A public HTTPS domain for Telegram webhooks to reach (Cloudflare Tunnel or ngrok http 3012 locally)

git clone https://github.com/globalion/telegram-mcp
cd telegram-mcp
cp .env.example .env
# fill in NEXTAUTH_SECRET, GOOGLE_*, OPENROUTER_API_KEY, PUBLIC_BASE_URL
docker compose up -d
# open http://localhost:3012

How it works

                       Telegram
                          ▼
        /api/telegram/webhook/<per-user-secret>
                          │
                          ▼
                  ┌─────────────┐
                  │  chat.ts    │  loads recent history from Postgres
                  │             │  → sends to OpenRouter
                  │             │  → persists reply + sends via bot API
                  └─────────────┘

  External MCP clients (Claude Desktop, Cursor, custom agents)
                          ▼
              /api/mcp (Bearer <apiKey>)
                          │
              ┌───────────┴───────────┐
              ▼                       ▼
     send_telegram_message    list_recent_messages

Per-user webhook URL segment is a random secret so a leaked bot token can't be pointed at someone else's account. Google refresh tokens aren't touched — Google sign-in is identity only.

License

MIT. See LICENSE.