telegram-user-mcp
Integrates Telegram user account with MCP, exposing operations like reading and sending messages, managing chats, and more via stdio or SSE transport.
README
telegram-user-mcp
Telegram user-account integration for MCP (Model Context Protocol), built on
Telethon. Exposes Telegram operations
(read/send messages, manage chats, etc.) to an MCP client over stdio or sse.
This is a containerized fork of chigwell/telegram-mcp.
Image
A public image is built by CI on every push to main and published to GHCR:
ghcr.io/alexmakeev/telegram-user-mcp:latest
Configuration (runtime only)
All credentials are provided at runtime as environment variables — nothing is
baked into the image. Obtain TELEGRAM_API_ID / TELEGRAM_API_HASH from
https://my.telegram.org (API development tools).
| Variable | Required | Description |
|---|---|---|
TELEGRAM_API_ID |
yes | Telegram API id |
TELEGRAM_API_HASH |
yes | Telegram API hash |
TELEGRAM_SESSION_NAME |
no | File-session name (default telegram_user) |
TELEGRAM_SESSION_DIR |
no | Directory for the file session (default /app/sessions) |
TELEGRAM_SESSION_STRING |
no | Portable string session (alternative to a file session) |
TRANSPORT |
no | stdio (default) or sse |
LOG_LEVEL |
no | Log level (default INFO) |
Authenticating
You need either a session string or a session file for an authorized account:
- String session:
python session_string_generator.py(interactive), then setTELEGRAM_SESSION_STRING. - File session (QR login):
python qr_auth.py, then mount the resultingsessions/directory into the container.
A Telegram session grants full access to the account. Never commit session files or session strings. They are git-ignored here by default.
Run
docker run --rm \
-e TELEGRAM_API_ID=... \
-e TELEGRAM_API_HASH=... \
-e TELEGRAM_SESSION_STRING=... \
ghcr.io/alexmakeev/telegram-user-mcp:latest
License
Apache-2.0 (inherited from the upstream project). See pyproject.toml for authorship.
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