Telegram MCP by usefulapi MCP Server

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Telegram MCP by usefulapi is answering right now. Last checked 12 min ago. It exposes 9 tools. Last commit 2 Nov 2026.

Read chats and members; send, edit and delete messages with a bot in Telegram.

Uptime history 5 hours of history

5 hours agonow

100.0%

Uptime 24h

16 of 16 checks

Tools

read from the server

174 ms

Response time

average over 24h

Stars

last commit 2 Nov 2026

Nothing serious here today

Today is the operative word: we check Telegram MCP by usefulapi every 15 minutes and re-read its code on every release. Watch it and you find out the day that stops being true.

Connect this server

Endpoint below is the one we actually reach during checks — not the one copied from a README. Last verified 12 min ago.

Claude Code Claude Desktop Codex Cursor VS Code

run in your terminal

claude mcp add telegram --transport http https://telegram.usefulapi.io/mcp

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

https://telegram.usefulapi.io/mcp

~/.codex/config.toml

[mcp_servers.telegram]
url = "https://telegram.usefulapi.io/mcp"

.cursor/mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "telegram": {
      "url": "https://telegram.usefulapi.io/mcp"
    }
  }
}

.vscode/mcp.json

{
  "servers": {
    "telegram": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://telegram.usefulapi.io/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Available tools 9

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

telegram_delete_message

WRITE: delete a message. This cannot be undone. A bot can delete its own messages and incoming private-chat messages. In groups it needs the delete-messages admin right for other messages. Telegram allows deletion only for messages up to 48 hours old in most cases. Bot API: deleteMessage.

telegram_edit_message_text

WRITE: change the text of a message that the bot sent. This replaces the old text. Bot API: editMessageText.

telegram_get_chat

Get the details of a chat the bot belongs to: type, title, username, description, pinned message, permissions. Bot API: getChat.

telegram_get_chat_administrators

List the administrators of a group or channel (not other bots' hidden admins). Bot API: getChatAdministrators.

telegram_get_chat_member

Get one member of a chat: status (creator, administrator, member, restricted, left, kicked) and rights. Bot API: getChatMember.

telegram_get_chat_member_count

Get the number of members in a chat. Bot API: getChatMemberCount.

telegram_get_me

Return the bot's own profile (id, name, username, group-join and inline settings). Use it to confirm the token works. Bot API: getMe.

telegram_get_updates

Read the messages and events that users sent to the bot and that wait in Telegram's queue (short poll, no wait). Without offset the same updates return again. A positive offset above an update_id, or a negative offset, deletes older updates in Telegram (this cannot be undone). allowed_updates changes the bot's saved update filter. Fails with HTTP 409 if the bot has a webhook. Bot API: getUpdates.

telegram_send_message

WRITE: send a text message from the bot to a chat. The message is visible to real people and cannot be unsent except with telegram_delete_message. Bot API: sendMessage.

Endpoints

URL	Transport	State	Latency	Checked
https://telegram.usefulapi.io/mcp	streamable-http	answering	224 ms	12 min ago

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Telegram MCP by usefulapi — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

What can Telegram MCP by usefulapi do?

It exposes 9 tools, read directly from the server on our last check. Among them: telegram_delete_message, telegram_edit_message_text, telegram_get_chat, telegram_get_chat_administrators, telegram_get_chat_member, telegram_get_chat_member_count and 3 more. 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 Telegram MCP by usefulapi working right now?

We send a real MCP handshake every 15 minutes. Over the last 24 hours 16 of 16 checks got a reply (100.0%), average response time 174 ms. The bar chart above shows every period we have measured.

How do I connect Telegram MCP by usefulapi?

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 Telegram MCP by usefulapi need an API key?

No. Telegram MCP by usefulapi completed a full MCP handshake with us as an anonymous client and listed its tools without asking for anything. All 9 of them are readable on this page. This is what we observed, not what the docs claim.

How fast is Telegram MCP by usefulapi?

It answers our handshake in 174 ms on average, which is faster than 78% of all working MCP servers we measure. That puts it in the quick quarter of the ecosystem. The comparison comes from our own checks across the whole registry, every 15 minutes.

Is Telegram MCP by usefulapi open source?

The code is open source: it is published under the MIT licence, written in JavaScript, 1 stars on GitHub and 1 open issue. The licence covers the code in the repository, not the hosted service at telegram.usefulapi.io, which runs on its operator's own terms.