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Message broadcasting and editing
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Function
Description
Bot.sendMessage(text)Send message to current chat
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Bot.sendMessage("Hello from bot")Bot.sendMessageToChatWithId(chatid, text)Send message to chat with id. Current chatid for chat is contained in chat.chatid
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Bot.sendMessageToChatWithId("45445454521", "Hello users!")Bot.sendMessageToChat(chat_name, text)Send message to other chat. The bot must be installed in another chat room
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sendMessageToChat("OtherTestChat", "Hello to all!")Do you want broadcast text?
Do you want broadcast photo, video and etc?
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Security
Please note that the user can create a chat with any name and add to it your bot.
Therefore, the function
Bot.sendMessageToChatWithId is more preferable than the function Bot.sendMessageToChat.Message editing
Function
Description
editMessage(value, message_id, options)
edit message with value and message_id
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Bot.editMessage("new text", 20)editMessageInChat(chat_id, value, message_id)
edit message with value and message_id in chat
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Bot.editMessageInChat(10512154, "new text", 25)message_id - it is unique identificator for all chats of this bot.
Message_id for income messages to bot
For income messages to bot: use
request.message_idExample
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let msg_id = request.message_id;
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Bot.editMessage("new text", msg_id)
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// also you can store message_id for future editing:
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User.setProperty("msg_id", msg_id, "integer");
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// or if you want to edit message from others chats:
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Bot.setProperty("msg_id" + chat.chatid, msg_id, "integer");
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Message_id - have unique value for all chats of bot. So we have only one message_id with value "2" and only in one chat.
Message_id for messages from bot
Example
in first command:
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Bot.sendMessage("hello",
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{on_result: "onMessageSending" }
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in command
onMessageSending:1
// You can inspect all result:
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// Bot.inspect(options)
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let msg_id = options.result.message_id;
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Bot.editMessage("new text", msg_id);
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// Also you can save message_id for future:
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// Bot.setProperty( "MSG-for-edit" + chat.chatid, msg_id, "integer");
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Options for sendMessage, editMessage and sendKeyboard functionals: Reply, Disable Notification, Disable web page preview
You can pass options parameter to any
sendMessageXXX, sendKeyboard, editMesage, editMessageInChat andsendInlineKeyboard functions:1
let options = { disable_notification: true, reply_to_message_id: request.message_id };
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Bot.sendMessage("Hello from bot", options);
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Bot.sendMessageToChatWithId("45445454521", "Hello users!", options);
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Bot.sendKeyboard("about, help,\ncontacts", "send keyboard now", options)
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Parameter
Type
Description
disable_web_page_preview
Boolean
Disables link previews for links in this message
disable_notification
Boolean
Sends the message silently. Users will receive a notification with no sound.
reply_to_message_id
Integer
If the message is a reply, ID of the original message
is_reply
Boolean
If the message is a reply for previous message
parse_mode
String
Send
Markdown or HTML, if you want Telegram apps to show bold, italic, fixed-width text or inline URLs in your bot's message. Default Markdown. Can be Markdown, HTML or nullresult_to_bot_property
String
It is preferable to use "on_result". Store result of message sending in bot property with this name. You can read this result later in other commands by Bot.getProperty
on_result
String
Call this command after method with result
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