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Summary
Let Muse send Telegram messages, photos, files and polls through your own bot, and read recent replies.
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Example prompts for Telegram Bot
Click any prompt to copy it. Paste into Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, Gemini, Copilot or OpenClaw to run it against this connector.
Claude is AI and can make mistakes. Please double-check responses.
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Telegram Bot + Meta Muse
Send Telegram messages, photos, documents, audio, location and polls from any AI agent via the Telegram Bot API. 13 tools, bot-token auth. Outbound + lightweight read of recent updates (no long-polling).
Prerequisites
See the full setup instructions baked into the connector (visible in the in-app store when you select the connector). The required environment variables for this connector are:
TELEGRAM_BOT_TOKEN
Step 1 — Get credentials
Setup:
- In Telegram, open chat with @BotFather →
/newbot→ pick a display name and a username ending inbot. - BotFather replies with an HTTP API token like
123456789:ABCDEFghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz. Treat as a secret — anyone with it can send as your bot. - Set
TELEGRAM_BOT_TOKENto the full token.
Authentication model (Telegram-specific): the bot token goes in the URL path, NOT in a header. The base URL is https://api.telegram.org/bot${TELEGRAM_BOT_TOKEN} and every endpoint is appended as /methodName. The adapter substitutes the token via the {{TELEGRAM_BOT_TOKEN}} env-var template in baseUrl.
…(continued in the in-app connector instructions)
Step 2 — Install the adapter
curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/HelpCode-ai/anythingmcp/main/docker-compose.quickstart.yml -o docker-compose.yml
printf 'JWT_SECRET=%s\nENCRYPTION_KEY=%s\n' "$(openssl rand -hex 32)" "$(openssl rand -hex 32)" > .env
docker compose up -d
Step 3 — Add the connector in Muse
Your server URL: in AnythingMCP, open MCP Servers → the server this connector is on, and copy its URL (
https://cloud.anythingmcp.com/mcp/…). Use it wherever this guide showsYOUR_SERVER_ID.
Muse adds remote MCP servers as custom connectors and signs in to them with OAuth.
- In Muse, open Settings → Connectors and choose Add custom connector.
- Paste the MCP server URL
https://cloud.anythingmcp.com/mcp/YOUR_SERVER_ID. - Muse opens the AnythingMCP sign-in page: sign in and approve access.
- In a chat, ask Muse for something that needs the
Telegram Bottools.
You can also set it up from a chat, on the web, in the iOS and Android apps or in WhatsApp. Send Muse this message:
Create a Custom Connector for a new remote MCP server, then connect to it:
Name: AnythingMCP
Transport: remote streamable HTTP
URL: https://cloud.anythingmcp.com/mcp/YOUR_SERVER_ID
Auth: OAuth
Self-hosting? Use your instance's public HTTPS address instead of https://cloud.anythingmcp.com. Muse connects from Meta's cloud, so localhost does not work.
Available tools
| Tool | What it does |
|---|---|
telegram_bot_get_me | Return the bot's own user info: id, username, first_name, can_join_groups, can_read_all_group_messages, supports_inline_queries |
telegram_bot_send_message | Send a text message to a chat |
telegram_bot_send_photo | Send a photo (JPG/PNG, ≤5MB via URL) by HTTPS URL or by reusable file_id |
telegram_bot_send_document | Send a document (any type, ≤20MB via URL) by HTTPS URL or file_id |
telegram_bot_send_audio | Send an audio file (MP3, M4A, ≤20MB via URL) |
telegram_bot_send_voice | Send a voice note (OGG-Opus encoded) |
telegram_bot_send_video | Send a video (MP4, H |
telegram_bot_send_location | Send a location point |
telegram_bot_send_poll | Send a poll (regular or quiz) |
telegram_bot_edit_message_text | Edit the text of a previously-sent message (your bot's own messages only) |
telegram_bot_delete_message | Delete a message the bot sent (within ~48 hours for groups, anytime for own DMs) |
telegram_bot_get_chat | Fetch chat info: title, type (private/group/supergroup/channel), photo, description, invite_link, member_count, permissions |
telegram_bot_get_updates | Long-poll recent inbound messages (one-shot — pulls all updates since the last offset+1) |
FAQ
Where is Muse available? Meta currently offers Muse in the US and Canada, on the web, in the iOS and Android apps and in WhatsApp.
Does Meta review this connector? No. Meta doesn't review custom connectors. Muse sees only the tools you switched on for this MCP server in AnythingMCP, and you can disconnect it anytime under Settings → Connectors.
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