Search Messages

MCP Telegram provides powerful search across your chats — find any message, in any chat, by keyword.

Search in a Specific Chat

You: Search for "meeting notes" in the Engineering group

Uses telegram-search-messages with server-side Telegram search (fast, works on chats with millions of messages).

You: Search all my Telegram chats for "invoice"

Uses telegram-search-global to search across every chat at once.

You: Find all my Telegram groups about AI

Uses telegram-search-chats to search by chat name/description.

Tool	What It Does
`telegram-search-messages`	Search within a specific chat by keyword
`telegram-search-global`	Search across all chats at once
`telegram-search-chats`	Find chats by name

Search is server-side — it's fast even for large chats
Results include sender name, date, and message text
Pagination is supported for large result sets
You can combine with reading: "Find the last message about 'release' in DevOps and show me the context around it"