tgden — Telegram catalog MCP Server

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tgden — Telegram catalog is answering right now. Last checked 5 min ago. It exposes 6 tools. Last commit 26 Oct 2026.

Search 1.4M+ public Telegram channels, chats and bots. No account, no API key, no install.

Uptime history 91 days of history · worst day 86%

91 days agonow

100.0%

Uptime 24h

91 of 91 checks

Tools

read from the server

214 ms

Response time

average over 24h

Stars

last commit 26 Oct 2026

What changed 200

Every tool that appeared, vanished or quietly changed what it asks for. Recorded since 8 August 2026. No other catalogue keeps this.

10 Oct a tool description was rewritten3 times that day search_telegram

9 Oct a tool description was rewritten4 times that day search_telegram

8 Oct a tool description was rewritten search_telegram

7 Oct a tool description was rewritten5 times that day search_telegram

6 Oct a tool description was rewritten search_telegram

4 Oct a tool description was rewritten search_telegram

3 Oct a tool description was rewritten2 times that day search_telegram

1 Oct a tool description was rewritten search_telegram

30 Sep a tool description was rewritten search_telegram

29 Sep a tool description was rewritten2 times that day search_telegram

and 190 more, back to 8 August 2026

tgden — Telegram catalog does not always answer

Over the last week it answered 99.2% of our checks. We check every 15 minutes, so you hear about the next outage within the hour — not from your users.

Connect this server

Endpoint below is the one we actually reach during checks — not the one copied from a README. Last verified 5 min ago.

Claude Code Claude Desktop Codex Cursor VS Code

run in your terminal

claude mcp add tgden --transport http https://tgden.com/api/mcp

Settings → Connectors → Add custom connector, then paste this address

https://tgden.com/api/mcp

~/.codex/config.toml

[mcp_servers.tgden]
url = "https://tgden.com/api/mcp"

.cursor/mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "tgden": {
      "url": "https://tgden.com/api/mcp"
    }
  }
}

.vscode/mcp.json

{
  "servers": {
    "tgden": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://tgden.com/api/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Available tools 6

Read directly from the server with tools/list, grouped by what they act on. If a tool disappears, we record the date.

market

market_listings

Fresh classified listings extracted from Telegram groups across the OTC network — Thailand (th), UAE (ae), Turkey (tr), Vietnam (vn), Georgia (ge), USA (us), Russia (ru): rent, sale, services, jobs, exchange. Filter by country and listing type.

market_stats

Listing totals by country and type for the OTC marketplace (th·ae·tr·vn·ge·us·ru).

best

best_channels_by_category

Top Telegram channels ranked by subscribers for a given category. Use this when someone asks 'best telegram channels for [topic]' or 'top channels about [subject]'. Returns channel name, @username, subscriber count, language and description.

channel

channel_stats

Full record for one channel by @username: subscribers, category, language, trust score, description.

posts

search_posts

Full-text search over recent posts from catalogued channels (1k+ view posts). Returns text snippets, channel and view counts.

search_telegram

Full-text search over the tgden catalog (1.8M+ channels, 442k+ group chats, 228k+ bots) with subscriber/member counts, categories and trust scores. Needs no Telegram account — this is the public catalog, so it finds communities the user has NOT joined. Use type to restrict to one entity kind.

Endpoints

URL	Transport	State	Latency	Checked
https://tgden.com/api/mcp	streamable-http	answering	183 ms	5 min ago

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tgden — Telegram catalog — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

What can tgden — Telegram catalog do?

It exposes 6 tools, read directly from the server on our last check. Among them: best_channels_by_category, channel_stats, market_listings, market_stats, search_posts, search_telegram. The full list with descriptions is on this page — we take it from the server itself via tools/list, not from a README. How MCP servers expose tools in the first place →

Is tgden — Telegram catalog working right now?

We send a real MCP handshake every 15 minutes. Over the last 24 hours 91 of 91 checks got a reply (100.0%), average response time 214 ms. The bar chart above shows every period we have measured.

How do I connect tgden — Telegram catalog?

Copy the ready config from this page. We generate it for Claude Code, Claude Desktop, Codex, Cursor and VS Code, each in the form that client actually reads. It is a remote server, so there is nothing to install — the client connects to the address.

Does tgden — Telegram catalog need an API key?

No. tgden — Telegram catalog completed a full MCP handshake with us as an anonymous client and listed its tools without asking for anything. All 6 of them are readable on this page. This is what we observed, not what the docs claim.

How fast is tgden — Telegram catalog?

It answers our handshake in 214 ms on average, which is faster than 67% of all working MCP servers we measure. The comparison comes from our own checks across the whole registry, every 15 minutes.

Is tgden — Telegram catalog open source?

The code is open source: it is published under the MIT licence, written in Python, 1 stars on GitHub and 2 open issues. The licence covers the code in the repository, not the hosted service at tgden.com, which runs on its operator's own terms.