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tgboard — Telegram Directory is listed as active in the registry but did not answer our last check. It exposes 4 tools.

Search 100k+ auto-verified Telegram channels, bots and groups: full-text search and top rankings.

Uptime history 47 days of history · worst day 85%
47 days agonow
93.4%
Uptime 24h
85 of 91 checks
4
Tools
read from the server
176 ms
Response time
average over 24h
open, no key
Access
streamable-http

What changed 2

Every tool that appeared, vanished or quietly changed what it asks for. Recorded since 1 September 2026. No other catalogue keeps this.

14 Sep a tool changed version
1 Sep a tool changed version

tgboard — Telegram Directory does not always answer

Over the last week it answered 96.7% of our checks. We check every 15 minutes, so you hear about the next outage within the hour — not from your users.

Three servers free · no card

Connect this server

Endpoint below is the one we actually reach during checks — not the one copied from a README. Last verified 8 min ago.

run in your terminal
claude mcp add catalog --transport http https://tgboard.com/mcp/
~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "catalog": {
      "url": "https://tgboard.com/mcp/"
    }
  }
}
~/.codex/config.toml
[mcp_servers.catalog]
url = "https://tgboard.com/mcp/"
.cursor/mcp.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "catalog": {
      "url": "https://tgboard.com/mcp/"
    }
  }
}
.vscode/mcp.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "catalog": {
      "url": "https://tgboard.com/mcp/"
    }
  }
}

Available tools 4

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

telegram
get_telegram_resource
Detailed card of one catalog resource by its tgboard slug. Args: slug: The resource slug from a tgboard URL or a search result. lang: Description language: en | ru | it | es | fr | ar (default en).
list_telegram_categories
Catalog categories with live resource counts (use slugs in other tools). Args: type: Optional filter — channels | bots | apps | groups | stickers. lang: Category-name language: en | ru | it | es | fr | ar (default en).
search_telegram
Full-text search across the tgboard catalog of Telegram resources. Args: query: What to look for (topic, name, keyword). type: Optional filter — channels | bots | apps | groups | stickers. lang: Result language: en | ru | it | es | fr | ar (default en). limit: Max results, 1-25 (default 10).
top
top_telegram_resources
The most-followed Telegram resources, optionally within one category. Args: type: channels | bots | apps | groups | stickers (default channels). category: Optional category slug, e.g. 'channels-crypto' (see list_telegram_categories). lang: Result language: en | ru | it | es | fr | ar (default en). limit: Max results, 1-25 (default 10).

Endpoints

URLTransportStateLatencyChecked
https://tgboard.com/mcp/ streamable-http answering 20000 ms 8 min ago

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tgboard — Telegram Directory — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

What can tgboard — Telegram Directory do?
It exposes 4 tools, read directly from the server on our last check. Among them: get_telegram_resource, list_telegram_categories, search_telegram, top_telegram_resources. 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 tgboard — Telegram Directory working right now?
We send a real MCP handshake every 15 minutes. Over the last 24 hours 85 of 91 checks got a reply (93.4%), average response time 176 ms. The bar chart above shows every period we have measured.
The registry lists tgboard — Telegram Directory as active — why does it not respond?
The official MCP registry stores what the author submitted; it does not verify that the server still runs. We check the endpoint ourselves, and this one does not answer. Catalogues that copy the registry without checking will show it as working.
How do I connect tgboard — Telegram Directory?
Copy the ready config from this page — we generate it for Claude Code, Claude Desktop, Codex, Cursor and VS Code, each with the file path that client actually reads. It is a remote server, so there is nothing to install — the client connects to the address.
Does tgboard — Telegram Directory need an API key?
No. tgboard — Telegram Directory completed a full MCP handshake with us as an anonymous client and listed its tools without asking for anything. All 4 of them are readable on this page. This is what we observed, not what the docs claim.
How fast is tgboard — Telegram Directory?
It answers our handshake in 176 ms on average, which is faster than 71% of all working MCP servers we measure. The comparison comes from our own checks across the whole registry, every 15 minutes.