MCP Telegram Notifier

Telegram Notifier MCP Server

A Model Context Protocol (MCP) server that enables AI agents to send messages via Telegram bot. Perfect for notifications, alerts, and real-time communication from your AI applications.

Features

• 📱 Send messages to Telegram channels/chats via bot
• 🎨 Support for multiple formatting modes (Markdown, MarkdownV2, HTML)
• 📷 Send photos/images (local files, HTTP URLs)
• 📁 Send documents/files with custom filenames
• 🎬 Send videos with caption support
• 🏷️ Caption support for all media with full formatting
• 🛡️ Robust error handling with detailed Telegram API responses
• 🏗️ Clean service architecture for maintainable code

Quick Start

1. Create a Telegram Bot

1. Message @BotFather on Telegram
2. Use /newbot command and follow instructions
3. Save the bot token (looks like 123456789:ABCdefGHIjklMNOpqrsTUVwxyz)

2. Get Chat ID

For personal messages:

1. Message your bot first
2. Visit: https://api.telegram.org/bot<YOUR_BOT_TOKEN>/getUpdates
3. Find the chat.id value

For channels:

1. Add your bot to the channel as admin
2. Send a message to the channel
3. Visit the same URL and find the chat.id (negative number for channels)

3. Install and Configure

# Install the package
npm install -g @harnyk/telegram-notifier-mcp

# Or clone and build locally
git clone <repository-url>
cd mcp-telegram-notifier
pnpm install
pnpm build
pnpm link

4. Add to Your MCP Client

Add to your MCP client configuration (e.g., Claude Desktop):

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "telegram-notifier": {
      "command": "telegram-notifier",
      "env": {
        "TELEGRAM_BOT_TOKEN": "your_bot_token_here",
        "TELEGRAM_CHAT_ID": "your_chat_id_here"
      }
    }
  }
}

Or using npx:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "telegram-notifier": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": ["-y", "@harnyk/telegram-notifier-mcp"],
      "env": {
        "TELEGRAM_BOT_TOKEN": "your_bot_token_here", 
        "TELEGRAM_CHAT_ID": "your_chat_id_here"
      }
    }
  }
}

Available Tools

Once configured, your AI agent will have access to these MCP tools:

📝 send_markdown_message_as_telegram_bot

Send formatted text messages to Telegram

• messageText: Text content with Markdown/HTML formatting
• parseMode: Markdown, MarkdownV2, or HTML (default: MarkdownV2)

📷 send_telegram_photo

Send photos/images to Telegram

• photo: Local file path or HTTP URL to image
• caption: Optional image caption with formatting
• parseMode: Caption formatting mode

📁 send_telegram_document

Send documents/files to Telegram

• document: Local file path or HTTP URL to document
• caption: Optional document caption with formatting
• filename: Custom filename override
• parseMode: Caption formatting mode

🎬 send_telegram_video

Send videos to Telegram

• video: Local file path or HTTP URL to video
• caption: Optional video caption with formatting
• filename: Custom filename override
• parseMode: Caption formatting mode

Use Cases

• 📊 Monitoring: Get alerts when system metrics exceed thresholds
• 🚀 Deployments: Notifications when CI/CD pipelines complete
• 📈 Analytics: Daily/weekly reports with charts and data files
• 🔍 Error Tracking: Instant notifications with error screenshots
• 📅 Scheduling: Reminders with attached documents
• 💬 Customer Support: Forward important messages with media

Development

# Install dependencies
pnpm install

# Run in development mode
pnpm dev

# Build for production
pnpm build

# Run linting
pnpm lint

# Run type checking  
pnpm typecheck

Configuration Examples

Claude Desktop

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "telegram-notifier": {
      "command": "telegram-notifier",
      "env": {
        "TELEGRAM_BOT_TOKEN": "123456789:ABCdefGHIjklMNOpqrsTUVwxyz",
        "TELEGRAM_CHAT_ID": "-1001234567890"
      }
    }
  }
}

Contributing

1. Fork the repository
2. Create a feature branch
3. Make your changes
4. Add tests if needed
5. Run pnpm lint and pnpm typecheck
6. Submit a pull request

License

WTFPL - Do What the Fuck You Want to Public License