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Summary
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).
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Example prompts for Telegram Bot
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Telegram Bot
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).
Setup
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${TELEGRAM_BOT_TOKEN} and every endpoint is appended as /methodName. The adapter substitutes the token via the {{TELEGRAM_BOT_TOKEN}} env-var template in baseUrl.
…(continued in the in-app connector instructions)
Prerequisites: TELEGRAM_BOT_TOKEN
Install the connector locally
curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/HelpCode-ai/anythingmcp/main/docker-compose.quickstart.yml -o docker-compose.yml
printf 'JWT_SECRET=%s\nENCRYPTION_KEY=%s\n' "$(openssl rand -hex 32)" "$(openssl rand -hex 32)" > .env
docker compose up -d
Open http://localhost:3000/connectors/store, pick Telegram Bot and paste in the env vars listed under Prerequisites.
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) |
Next steps
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