--- title: Methods description: What do you want to do? image: https://docs.madelineproto.xyz/favicons/android-chrome-256x256.png --- # What do you want to do? [Go back to API documentation index](..) [Go to the old code-version method index](api_README.md) * [Logout](https://docs.madelineproto.xyz/logout.html) * [Login](https://docs.madelineproto.xyz/docs/LOGIN.html) * [Change 2FA password](https://docs.madelineproto.xyz/update2fa.html) * [Get all chats, broadcast a message to all chats](https://docs.madelineproto.xyz/docs/DIALOGS.html) * [Get the full participant list of a channel/group/supergroup](https://docs.madelineproto.xyz/getPwrChat.html) * [Get full info about a user/chat/supergroup/channel](https://docs.madelineproto.xyz/getFullInfo.html) * [Get info about a user/chat/supergroup/channel](https://docs.madelineproto.xyz/getInfo.html) * [Get info about the currently logged-in user](https://docs.madelineproto.xyz/getSelf.html) * [Upload or download files up to 1.5 GB](https://docs.madelineproto.xyz/docs/FILES.html) * [Make a phone call and play a song](https://docs.madelineproto.xyz/docs/CALLS.html) * [Create a secret chat bot](https://docs.madelineproto.xyz/docs/SECRET_CHATS.html) * Add GIF to saved gifs list: messages.saveGif * Adds a user to a chat and sends a service message on it.: messages.addChatUser * Adds the user to the blacklist.: contacts.block * Allow or disallow any user to invite users to this channel/supergroup: channels.toggleInvites * Answer an inline query, for bots only: messages.setInlineBotResults * Binds a temporary authorization key `temp_auth_key_id` to the permanent authorization key `perm_auth_key_id`. Each permanent key may only be bound to one temporary key at a time, binding a new temporary key overwrites the previous one. For more information, see [Perfect Forward Secrecy](https://core.telegram.org/api/pfs).: auth.bindTempAuthKey * Cancel the login verification code: auth.cancelCode * Cancels a request for creation and/or delete info on secret chat.: messages.discardEncryption * Chanages chat name and sends a service message on it.: messages.editChatTitle * Change privacy settings of current account: account.setPrivacy * Change the phone number of the current account: account.changePhone * Change the photo of a [channel/supergroup](https://core.telegram.org/api/channel): channels.editPhoto * Change the username of a supergroup/channel: channels.updateUsername * Changes chat photo and sends a service message on it: messages.editChatPhoto * Changes username for the current user.: account.updateUsername * Check if a username is free and can be assigned to a channel/supergroup: channels.checkUsername * Check if this phone number is registered on telegram: auth.checkPhone * Check the validity of a chat invite link and get basic info about it: messages.checkChatInvite * Confirms creation of a secret chat: messages.acceptEncryption * Confirms receipt of messages by a client, cancels PUSH-notification sending.: messages.receivedMessages * Confirms receipt of messages in a secret chat by client, cancels push notifications.: messages.receivedQueue * Create a [supergroup/channel](https://core.telegram.org/api/channel).: channels.createChannel * Creates a new chat.: messages.createChat * Delete a [channel/supergroup](https://core.telegram.org/api/channel): channels.deleteChannel * Delete a contact: contacts.deleteContact * Delete all messages sent by a certain user in a [supergroup](https://core.telegram.org/api/channel): channels.deleteUserHistory * Delete messages in a [channel/supergroup](https://core.telegram.org/api/channel): channels.deleteMessages * Delete the user's account from the telegram servers. Can be used, for example, to delete the account of a user that provided the login code, but forgot the [2FA password and no recovery method is configured](https://core.telegram.org/api/srp).: account.deleteAccount * Deletes a device by its token, stops sending PUSH-notifications to it.: account.unregisterDevice * Deletes a user from a chat and sends a service message on it.: messages.deleteChatUser * Deletes communication history.: messages.deleteHistory * Deletes messages by their identifiers.: messages.deleteMessages * Deletes profile photos.: photos.deletePhotos * Deletes several contacts from the list.: contacts.deleteContacts * Deletes the user from the blacklist.: contacts.unblock * Edit an inline bot message: messages.editInlineBotMessage * Edit message: messages.editMessage * Edit the about text of a channel/supergroup: channels.editAbout * Edit the name of a [channel/supergroup](https://core.telegram.org/api/channel): channels.editTitle * Edits notification settings from a given user/group, from all users/all groups.: account.updateNotifySettings * Enable all users are admins in normal groups (not supergroups): messages.toggleChatAdmins * Enable channel comments: channels.toggleComments * Enable/disable message signatures in channels: channels.toggleSignatures * Export an invite link for a chat: messages.exportChatInvite * Export contact as card: contacts.exportCard * Export the invite link of a channel: channels.exportInvite * Find out if a media message's caption can be edited: messages.getMessageEditData * Forward message: messages.forwardMessage * Forwards messages by their IDs.: messages.forwardMessages * Get [channel/supergroup](https://core.telegram.org/api/channel) messages: channels.getMessages * Get a document by its SHA256 hash, mainly used for gifs: messages.getDocumentByHash * Get all installed stickers: messages.getAllStickers * Get and increase the view counter of a message sent or forwarded from a [channel](https://core.telegram.org/api/channel): messages.getMessagesViews * Get changelog of current app: help.getAppChangelog * Get channel dialogs: channels.getDialogs * Get days to live of account: account.getAccountTTL * Get full info about a channel: channels.getFullChannel * Get important channel/supergroup history: channels.getImportantHistory * Get info about [channels/supergroups](https://core.telegram.org/api/channel): channels.getChannels * Get info about a [channel/supergroup](https://core.telegram.org/api/channel) participant: channels.getParticipant * Get info about a stickerset: messages.getStickerSet * Get link and embed info of a message in a [channel/supergroup](https://core.telegram.org/api/channel): channels.exportMessageLink * Get logged-in sessions: account.getAuthorizations * Get new [updates](https://core.telegram.org/api/updates).: updates.getDifference * Get peer settings: messages.getPeerSettings * Get preview of webpage: messages.getWebPagePreview * Get privacy settings of current account: account.getPrivacy * Get private info associated to the password info (recovery email, telegram [passport](https://core.telegram.org/passport) info & so on): account.getPasswordSettings * Get saved GIFs: messages.getSavedGifs * Get stickers by emoji: messages.getStickers * Get terms of service: help.getTermsOfService * Get the participants of a channel: channels.getParticipants * Gets back found messages: messages.search * Gets back the conversation history with one interlocutor / within a chat: messages.getHistory * Gets current notification settings for a given user/group, from all users/all groups.: account.getNotifySettings * Hide report spam popup: messages.hideReportSpam * Import a chat invite and join a private chat/supergroup/channel: messages.importChatInvite * Import card as contact: contacts.importCard * Imports contacts: saves a full list on the server, adds already registered contacts to the contact list, returns added contacts and their info.: contacts.importContacts * Initialize connection: initConnection * Install a stickerset: messages.installStickerSet * Installs a previously uploaded photo as a profile photo.: photos.updateProfilePhoto * Invite friends to telegram!: auth.sendInvites * Invite users to a channel/supergroup: channels.inviteToChannel * Invoke a request without subscribing the used connection for [updates](https://core.telegram.org/api/updates) (this is enabled by default for [file queries](https://core.telegram.org/api/files)).: invokeWithoutUpdates * Invoke the specified query using the specified API [layer](https://core.telegram.org/api/invoking#layers): invokeWithLayer * Invokes a query after a successfull completion of previous queries: invokeAfterMsgs * Invokes a query after successfull completion of one of the previous queries.: invokeAfterMsg * Join a channel/supergroup: channels.joinChannel * Kick user from channel: channels.kickFromChannel * Leave a [channel/supergroup](https://core.telegram.org/api/channel): channels.leaveChannel * Log out an active [authorized session](https://core.telegram.org/api/auth) by its hash: account.resetAuthorization * Login as a bot: auth.importBotAuthorization * Logs in a user using a key transmitted from his native data-centre.: auth.importAuthorization * Logs out the user.: auth.logOut * Make a user admin in a [legacy group](https://core.telegram.org/api/channel).: messages.editChatAdmin * Mark [channel/supergroup](https://core.telegram.org/api/channel) history as read: channels.readHistory * Marks message history as read.: messages.readHistory * Marks message history within a secret chat as read.: messages.readEncryptedHistory * Modify the admin rights of a user in a [supergroup/channel](https://core.telegram.org/api/channel).: channels.editAdmin * Notifies the sender about the recipient having listened a voice message or watched a video.: messages.readMessageContents * Obtain configuration for two-factor authorization with password: account.getPassword * Press an inline callback button and get a callback answer from the bot: messages.getBotCallbackAnswer * Query an inline bot: messages.getInlineBotResults * Register device to receive [PUSH notifications](https://core.telegram.org/api/push-updates): account.registerDevice * Registers a validated phone number in the system.: auth.signUp * Reorder installed stickersets: messages.reorderStickerSets * Report a new incoming chat for spam, if the [peer settings](../constructors/peerSettings.md) of the chat allow us to do that: messages.reportSpam * Report a peer for violation of telegram's Terms of Service: account.reportPeer * Reports some messages from a user in a supergroup as spam; requires administrator rights in the supergroup: channels.reportSpam * Request recovery code of a [2FA password](https://core.telegram.org/api/srp), only for accounts with a [recovery email configured](https://core.telegram.org/api/srp#email-verification).: auth.requestPasswordRecovery * Resend the login code via another medium, the phone code type is determined by the return value of the previous auth.sendCode/auth.resendCode: see [login](https://core.telegram.org/api/auth) for more info.: auth.resendCode * Reset the [2FA password](https://core.telegram.org/api/srp) using the recovery code sent using [auth.requestPasswordRecovery](../methods/auth.requestPasswordRecovery.md).: auth.recoverPassword * Resets all notification settings from users and groups.: account.resetNotifySettings * Resolve a @username to get peer info: contacts.resolveUsername * Returns a current state of updates.: updates.getState * Returns a list of available wallpapers.: account.getWallPapers * Returns basic user info according to their identifiers.: users.getUsers * Returns chat basic info on their IDs.: messages.getChats * Returns configuration parameters for Diffie-Hellman key generation. Can also return a random sequence of bytes of required length.: messages.getDhConfig * Returns content of a whole file or its part.: upload.getFile * Returns current configuration, icluding data center configuration.: help.getConfig * Returns data for copying authorization to another data-centre.: auth.exportAuthorization * Returns extended user info by ID.: users.getFullUser * Returns full chat info according to its ID.: messages.getFullChat * Returns info on data centre nearest to the user.: help.getNearestDc * Returns information on update availability for the current application.: help.getAppUpdate * Returns text of a text message with an invitation.: help.getInviteText * Returns the current user dialog list.: messages.getDialogs * Returns the current user's contact list.: contacts.getContacts * Returns the difference between the current state of updates of a certain channel and transmitted.: updates.getChannelDifference * Returns the list of blocked users.: contacts.getBlocked * Returns the list of contact statuses.: contacts.getStatuses * Returns the list of messages by their IDs.: messages.getMessages * Returns the list of user photos.: photos.getUserPhotos * Returns the support user for the 'ask a question' feature.: help.getSupport * Returns users found by username substring.: contacts.search * Saves a part of a large file (over 10Mb in size) to be later passed to one of the methods.: upload.saveBigFilePart * Saves a part of file for futher sending to one of the methods.: upload.saveFilePart * Saves logs of application on the server.: help.saveAppLog * Search for GIFs: messages.searchGifs * Search for messages and peers globally: messages.searchGlobal * Send a media: messages.sendMedia * Send a message to all users in the chat list: messages.sendBroadcast * Send a result obtained using [messages.getInlineBotResults](../methods/messages.getInlineBotResults.md).: messages.sendInlineBotResult * Send the verification code for login: auth.sendCode * Send typing event by the current user to a secret chat.: messages.setEncryptedTyping * Sends a current user typing event (see [SendMessageAction](../types/SendMessageAction.md) for all event types) to a conversation partner or group.: messages.setTyping * Sends a message to a chat: messages.sendMessage * Sends a message with a file attachment to a secret chat: messages.sendEncryptedFile * Sends a request to start a secret chat to the user.: messages.requestEncryption * Sends a service message to a secret chat.: messages.sendEncryptedService * Sends a text message to a secret chat.: messages.sendEncrypted * Set a new 2FA password: account.updatePasswordSettings * Set account self-destruction period: account.setAccountTTL * Set the callback answer to a user button press (bots only): messages.setBotCallbackAnswer * Set the pinned message of a channel/supergroup: channels.updatePinnedMessage * Signs in a user with a validated phone number.: auth.signIn * Start a conversation with a bot using a [deep linking parameter](https://core.telegram.org/bots#deep-linking): messages.startBot * Terminates all user's authorized sessions except for the current one. After calling this method it is necessary to reregister the current device using the method [account.registerDevice](../methods/account.registerDevice.md): auth.resetAuthorizations * Try logging to an account protected by a [2FA password](https://core.telegram.org/api/srp).: auth.checkPassword * Turn a [legacy group into a supergroup](https://core.telegram.org/api/channel): messages.migrateChat * Uninstall a stickerset: messages.uninstallStickerSet * Updates current user profile photo.: photos.uploadProfilePhoto * Updates online user status.: account.updateStatus * Updates user profile.: account.updateProfile * Validates a username and checks availability.: account.checkUsername * Verify a new phone number to associate to the current account: account.sendChangePhoneCode * When client-side passcode lock feature is enabled, will not show message texts in incoming [PUSH notifications](https://core.telegram.org/api/push-updates).: account.updateDeviceLocked