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Telegram (mcp-telegram) MCP Server

MCP server for Telegram userbot — messages, media, reactions, polls & more. Built on GramJS/MTProto.

Publisher claimed. No tool list reported, and Pod has not connected to this server.

Status

Pod has not dialled Telegram (mcp-telegram) yet, so everything on this page is what its publisher reported rather than what we observed. Registries describe servers; they do not connect to them. Until a check runs, treat the tool list below as a claim.

Connect

Published as @overpod/mcp-telegram on npm. Runs locally.

Known issues

5 problems reported by people outside the maintainer team. Issues filed by the project's own maintainers are excluded.

Most discussed

Remote deployments: file paths resolve on the daemon host, so downloads never reach the client

Problem

When the MCP server runs on a remote host (the common setup for a userbot: a VPS holds the session, the MCP client runs on a laptop, stdio is bridged over SSH), every file-shaped tool operates on the wrong filesystem.

Read the thread · 2026-08-06 · open · outside contributor · 2 comments

Master daemon never recovers from a dropped MTProto connection — all tool calls fail with 'IPC call timeout' until killed

Summary

Once the master daemon loses its MTProto connection, it never recovers. It stays alive, keeps accepting IPC clients and keeps serving tool calls that can never complete, so every call from every client fails with IPC call timeout: <tool> until the master is killed by hand.

I hit this after the daemon had been up for ~22 hours. The process was healthy and listening on daemon.sock, but had zero TCP connections to Telegram:

$ cat ~/.mcp-telegram/daemon.lock
1836
$ ps -o pi

[Read the thread](https://github.com/mcp-telegram/mcp-telegram/issues/71) · 2026-07-27 · closed · external user · 2 comments

### [Feature Request / Question] Support sending paid media (sendPaidMedia) via Telegram MCP

### Description

Does the project currently support sending paid media content (e.g., photos or videos unlocked via Telegram Stars) to Telegram users?

If it is already supported, could you please provide guidance or examples on how to configure or call the corresponding Tool / API?

If not, are there any plans to add support for the `sendPaidMedia` method in upcoming releases?

### Use Case

When interacting with Telegram via the MCP service, we would like to directly send media resources (phot

[Read the thread](https://github.com/mcp-telegram/mcp-telegram/issues/70) · 2026-07-23 · open · external user · 1 comment

### Windows + Node: server crashes at startup — IPC listens on a filesystem path (listen EACCES); needs \\.\pipe\ mapping on win32

## Summary

Since the master/client IPC architecture, the npm package cannot start on Windows with Node.js. `startOwner()` (dist/master.js) listens on `join(sessionDir, "daemon.sock")` — a filesystem path. On Windows, Node's `net.Server.listen(path)` only supports the named-pipe namespace (`\\.\pipe\` / `\\?\pipe\`, see [Node docs, "IPC support"](https://nodejs.org/api/net.html#identifying-paths-for-ipc-connections)), so the first launch (which becomes master) dies immediately:

[mcp-telegra

Read the thread · 2026-07-15 · closed · external user · 1 comment

ANSI escape codes in stdout break MCP JSON-RPC parsing in Claude Desktop

Bug Report

When running @overpod/mcp-telegram as an MCP server in Claude Desktop, the server emits ANSI color escape codes (e.g. \x1B[33m) to stdout instead of stderr. Since MCP communication over stdio uses stdout exclusively for JSON-RPC messages, these color codes corrupt the stream and cause repeated JSON parse errors in the client.

Error

SyntaxError: Unexpected token '', "\x1B[33m[2026"... is not valid JSON

This error repeats on every internal log line emitted

Read the thread · 2026-03-18 · closed · external user · 1 comment

Firsthand observations

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