How to connect Telegram to Grok Bot

Connect Grok Bot to Telegram MCP. Send a welcome message to new group members, forward latest announcement to all admins, and more using natural language, with authentication handled for you.

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Telegram is a fast, secure cloud messaging app for individuals and groups. It offers robust privacy and real-time chat features.

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Introduction

Grok is xAI's assistant, and its bot builder lets you create a personal agent that holds context, runs skills, and connects to the apps you already use through plugins.

This guide explains how to connect Telegram to a Grok bot using Composio Connect, which handles OAuth, token refresh, and reliability so you do not have to. You add Composio as a plugin, authenticate once, then ask your bot to work with Telegram in plain language.

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Why use Composio?

Composio exposes 1,000+ apps to your Grok bot through a single connection, so you get:

  • Connect to 1,000+ apps with on-demand tool loading, so you do not fill your context window with unnecessary tool definitions.
  • Use programmatic tool calling through a remote workbench, letting the model write its own code to handle complex tool chaining. This reduces back-and-forth for frequent tool calls.
  • Handle large tool responses outside the model context to keep conversations lean.

Connecting Telegram to Grok Bot

Once Grok Bot is set up, you connect Telegram entirely from its interface, and the whole flow takes under a minute.

Set up Grok Bot

1. Get access. Grok Bot is included with a paid Cursor plan (Cursor Pro, Pro+, or Ultra) or a Cursor Teams seat. You can also grant usage by linking an individual SuperGrok, SuperGrok Plus, or SuperGrok Heavy subscription to your Cursor account.

2. Download and sign in. Get the Grok Bot desktop app for macOS or Windows from x.ai/bot, then sign in with your Cursor account. An iPhone companion app is also available, and your bots sync across devices.

3. Create a bot. Pick a suggested role or define your own, then give it a short name, one primary job, and a short description of how it should work. Focused bots work best, because a clear role gives the bot more useful context over time.

Connect Telegram

1. Open Plugins

Open the Grok bot you want to connect to Telegram, then click Plugins in the left sidebar to open the plugin marketplace.

Grok Bot plugin marketplace with the Composio plugin

2. Search for Composio and add it

Type Composio into the Search plugins box and click Add on the Composio result. It then shows under 1 installed at the top of the marketplace.

Grok Bot plugin marketplace showing Composio under 1 installed

3. Open the installed plugin

Go to the Installed section and click the Composio entry. You'll see its connector and skills listed (for example, 1 connector, 2 skills).

Installed Composio plugin showing the Authenticate button

4. Authenticate

Click Authenticate. You'll be taken to the Composio consent screen. Review the access it requests and click Authorize. Composio handles the OAuth handshake for you, so you never touch API keys or tokens.

Composio authorization screen with Authorize and Deny

5. Connect your Telegram account

Back in the chat, ask your bot to connect to Telegram or give it any Telegram task.

For example, ask it to:

  • "Send a welcome message to new group members"
  • "Forward latest announcement to all admins"
  • "Get total member count of your group"

It will prompt you to authenticate and authorize access.

That's it. Composio's tools are now available in your Grok bot, and your Telegram account is ready to use.

What is Grok Bot?

Grok is xAI's assistant, available as a chat interface and a bot builder for creating personal agents that run skills and connect to external apps.

With Composio Connect, your Grok bot can securely access apps like Telegram through MCP without you sharing account credentials directly with the agent.

What is the Telegram MCP server, and what's possible with it?

The Telegram MCP server is an implementation of the Model Context Protocol that connects your AI agent and assistants like Claude, Cursor, etc directly to your Telegram account. It provides structured and secure access to your chats and bot functionality, so your agent can send messages, manage conversations, retrieve chat data, and interact with users or groups on your behalf.

  • Automated message sending and editing: Let your agent send new messages or edit existing ones in any chat where your bot is present, making real-time communication a breeze.
  • Chat and group management: Effortlessly manage group chats by retrieving chat details, getting administrators, exporting invite links, or counting group members.
  • Advanced chat history and message handling: Ask your agent to fetch chat history, forward messages between chats, or delete messages for streamlined moderation and record-keeping.
  • Bot and user interaction: Enable the agent to answer callback queries from inline keyboards and fetch basic bot information for smarter, context-aware responses.

Way Forward

Now that Telegram is connected, extend your setup by connecting the other apps you already use every day, so your Grok bot can run true cross-app workflows end to end.

  • Connect Calendar to turn threads into scheduled meetings automatically.
  • Connect Slack or Teams to post summaries, approvals, and alerts where your team works.
  • Connect Notion, Linear, Jira, or Asana to convert requests into tickets, tasks, and docs.
  • Connect Drive, Dropbox, or OneDrive to fetch, file, and share attachments without manual steps.

Start with one workflow you do repeatedly, then keep adding apps as you find new handoffs. With everything behind a single connection, your bot can coordinate multiple tools safely and reliably in one conversation.

TOOLS

Supported Tools

Every Telegram action and event your agent gets out of the box.

Answer Callback Query

Use this method to send answers to callback queries sent from inline keyboards.

Export Chat Invite Link

Generate a new primary invite link for a chat; any previously generated primary link is revoked.

Delete Message

Delete a message, including service messages.

Edit Message

Edit text messages sent by the bot.

Forward Message

Forward messages of any kind.

Get Chat Info

Get up to date information about the chat (current name of the user for one-on-one conversations, current username of a user, group or channel, etc.

Get Chat Administrators

Get a list of administrators in a chat.

Get Chat History

Get chat history messages via the getUpdates polling method, filtered by chat_id.

Get Chat Member

Get a chat member's status/role (including the bot itself) to preflight permissions and troubleshoot 403/empty-history issues.

Get Chat Members Count

Get the number of members in a chat.

Get Bot Info

Get basic information about the bot using the Bot API getMe method.

Get Updates

Use this method to receive incoming updates using long polling.

Send Document

Send general files (documents) to a Telegram chat using the Bot API.

Send Location

Send point on the map location to a Telegram chat using the Bot API.

Send Message

Send a text message to a Telegram chat using the Bot API.

Send Photo

Send photos to a Telegram chat using the Bot API.

Send Poll

Send a native poll to a Telegram chat using the Bot API.

Set Bot Commands

Use this method to change the list of the bot's commands.

FAQ

Frequently asked questions

With a standalone Telegram MCP server, the agents and LLMs can only access a fixed set of Telegram tools tied to that server. However, with the Composio Tool Router, agents can dynamically load tools from Telegram and many other apps based on the task at hand, all through a single MCP endpoint.

Yes, you can. Grok Bot fully supports MCP integration. You get structured tool calling, message history handling, and model orchestration while Tool Router takes care of discovering and serving the right Telegram tools.

Yes, absolutely. You can configure which Telegram scopes and actions are allowed when connecting your account to Composio. You can also bring your own OAuth credentials or API configuration so you keep full control over what the agent can do.

All sensitive data such as tokens, keys, and configuration is fully encrypted at rest and in transit. Composio is SOC 2 Type 2 compliant and follows strict security practices so your Telegram data and credentials are handled as safely as possible.

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