# GeiserX/telegram-archive-mcp [Health: Active]

**Category:** 💬 Communication  
**Repository:** https://github.com/GeiserX/telegram-archive-mcp  
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## Description
Go-based MCP server for Telegram Archive. Search and browse Telegram chat history, list chats, and retrieve messages with full-text search. Docker image available.

## Claude Desktop Quick Installation
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```json
"mcpServers": {
  "telegram-archive-mcp": {
    "command": "npx",
    "args": ["-y","telegram-archive-mcp"]
  }
}
```

## Documentation & README

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<h1 align="center">Telegram-Archive-MCP</h1>

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<p align="center"><strong>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.</strong></p>

---

## What you get

| Type          | What for                                                       | MCP URI / Tool id                |
|---------------|----------------------------------------------------------------|----------------------------------|
| **Resources** | Browse archive stats, chats, and folders read-only             | `telegram-archive://stats`<br>`telegram-archive://chats`<br>`telegram-archive://folders`<br>`telegram-archive://health` |
| **Tools**     | Search and retrieve messages (offset or keyset cursor paging; whole calendar days in a timezone), inspect chat statistics | `search_messages`<br>`get_messages`<br>`get_pinned_messages`<br>`get_messages_by_date`<br>`get_chat_stats`<br>`get_topics`<br>`refresh_stats` |

Everything is exposed over a single JSON-RPC endpoint (`/mcp`).
LLMs / Agents can: `initialize` -> `readResource` -> `listTools` -> `callTool` ... and so on.

---

## 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": "<your MCP_AUTH_TOKEN value>"
  },
  "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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## Related Projects

| Project | Description |
|---------|-------------|
| [Telegram-Archive](https://github.com/GeiserX/Telegram-Archive) | Automated, incremental Telegram backups with a local web viewer |
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