Telegram-Archive-MCP
A tiny bridge that exposes any Telegram-Archive instance as an MCP server, enabling LLMs to search messages, browse chats, and access archived Telegram history.
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## What you get
| Type | What for | MCP URI / Tool id |
|---------------|----------------------------------------------------------------|----------------------------------|
| **Resources** | Browse archive stats, chats, and folders read-only | `telegram-archive://stats`
`telegram-archive://chats`
`telegram-archive://folders`
`telegram-archive://health` |
| **Tools** | Search and retrieve messages, inspect chat statistics | `search_messages`
`get_messages`
`get_pinned_messages`
`get_messages_by_date`
`get_chat_stats`
`get_topics`
`refresh_stats` |
Everything is exposed over a single JSON-RPC endpoint (`/mcp`).
LLMs / Agents can: `initialize` -> `readResource` -> `listTools` -> `callTool` ... and so on.
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## Quick-start (Docker Compose)
```yaml
services:
telegram-archive-mcp:
image: drumsergio/telegram-archive-mcp:latest
ports:
- "127.0.0.1:8080:8080"
environment:
- TELEGRAM_ARCHIVE_URL=http://telegram-archive:3000
- TELEGRAM_ARCHIVE_USER=your-username
- TELEGRAM_ARCHIVE_PASS=your-password
```
> **Security note:** The HTTP transport listens on `127.0.0.1:8080` by default. If you need to expose it on a network, place it behind a reverse proxy with authentication.
## Install via npm (stdio transport)
```sh
npx telegram-archive-mcp
```
Or install globally:
```sh
npm install -g telegram-archive-mcp
telegram-archive-mcp
```
This downloads the pre-built Go binary from GitHub Releases for your platform and runs it with stdio transport. Requires at least one [published release](https://github.com/GeiserX/telegram-archive-mcp/releases).
## Local build
```sh
git clone https://github.com/GeiserX/telegram-archive-mcp
cd telegram-archive-mcp
# (optional) create .env from the sample
cp .env.example .env && $EDITOR .env
go run ./cmd/server
```
## Configuration
| Variable | Default | Description |
|-------------------------|----------------------------|--------------------------------------------------|
| `TELEGRAM_ARCHIVE_URL` | `http://localhost:3000` | Telegram-Archive instance URL (without trailing /)|
| `TELEGRAM_ARCHIVE_USER` | _(empty)_ | Login username for session auth via `/api/login` |
| `TELEGRAM_ARCHIVE_PASS` | _(empty)_ | Login password for session auth via `/api/login` |
| `LISTEN_ADDR` | `127.0.0.1:8080` | HTTP listen address (Docker sets `0.0.0.0:8080`) |
| `MCP_AUTH_TOKEN` | _(empty)_ | Bearer token for HTTP auth (required if not loopback) |
| `TRANSPORT` | _(empty = HTTP)_ | Set to `stdio` for stdio transport |
Put them in a `.env` file (from `.env.example`) or set them in the environment.
## Testing
Tested with [Inspector](https://modelcontextprotocol.io/docs/tools/inspector) and it is currently fully working. Before making a PR, make sure this MCP server behaves well via this medium.
## Example configuration for client LLMs
```json
{
"schema_version": "v1",
"name_for_human": "Telegram-Archive-MCP",
"name_for_model": "telegram_archive_mcp",
"description_for_human": "Search messages, browse chats, and access archived Telegram history.",
"description_for_model": "Interact with a Telegram-Archive instance that stores archived Telegram messages. First call initialize, then reuse the returned session id in header \"Mcp-Session-Id\" for every other call. Use readResource to fetch URIs that begin with telegram-archive://. Use listTools to discover available actions and callTool to execute them.",
"auth": {
"type": "bearer",
"token": ""
},
"api": {
"type": "jsonrpc-mcp",
"url": "http://localhost:8080/mcp",
"init_method": "initialize",
"session_header": "Mcp-Session-Id"
},
"contact_email": "acsdesk@protonmail.com",
"legal_info_url": "https://github.com/GeiserX/telegram-archive-mcp/blob/main/LICENSE"
}
```
## Credits
[Telegram-Archive](https://github.com/nicmart-dev/telegram-archive) -- Telegram message archival and search
[MCP-GO](https://github.com/mark3labs/mcp-go) -- modern MCP implementation
[GoReleaser](https://goreleaser.com/) -- painless multi-arch releases
## Maintainers
[@GeiserX](https://github.com/GeiserX).
## Contributing
Feel free to dive in! [Open an issue](https://github.com/GeiserX/telegram-archive-mcp/issues/new) or submit PRs.
Telegram-Archive-MCP follows the [Contributor Covenant](http://contributor-covenant.org/version/2/1/) Code of Conduct.
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| Project | Description |
|---------|-------------|
| [Telegram-Archive](https://github.com/GeiserX/Telegram-Archive) | Automated, incremental Telegram backups with a local web viewer |
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