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.

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 (offset or keyset cursor paging; whole calendar days in a timezone), 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.

Quick-start (Docker Compose)

docker-compose.yml

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)

Terminal

npx telegram-archive-mcp

Or install globally:

Terminal

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.

Local build

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 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

config.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 -- Telegram message archival and search

MCP-GO -- modern MCP implementation

GoReleaser -- painless multi-arch releases

Maintainers

@GeiserX.

Contributing

Feel free to dive in! Open an issue or submit PRs.

Telegram-Archive-MCP follows the Contributor Covenant Code of Conduct.

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