MadelineProtoDocs/old_docs/API_docs_v66/methods/messages.saveDraft.md

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messages.saveDraft	Save a message [draft](https://core.telegram.org/api/drafts) associated to a chat.	https://docs.madelineproto.xyz/favicons/android-chrome-256x256.png	/API_docs/methods/messages_saveDraft.html

Method: messages.saveDraft

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Save a message draft associated to a chat.

Parameters:

Name	Type	Description	Required
no_webpage	Bool	Disable generation of the webpage preview	Optional
reply_to_msg_id	int	Message ID the message should reply to	Optional
peer	Username, chat ID, Update, Message or InputPeer	Destination of the message that should be sent	Optional
message	string	The draft	Yes
entities	Array of MessageEntity	The entities (for styled text)	Optional
parse_mode	string	Whether to parse HTML or Markdown markup in the message	Optional

Return type: Bool

Can bots use this method: NO

MadelineProto Example (now async for huge speed and parallelism!):

if (!file_exists('madeline.php')) {
    copy('https://phar.madelineproto.xyz/madeline.php', 'madeline.php');
}
include 'madeline.php';

$MadelineProto = new \danog\MadelineProto\API('session.madeline');
$MadelineProto->start();

$Bool = $MadelineProto->messages->saveDraft(['no_webpage' => Bool, 'reply_to_msg_id' => int, 'peer' => InputPeer, 'message' => 'string', 'entities' => [MessageEntity, MessageEntity], 'parse_mode' => 'string', ]);

Or, if you're into Lua:

Bool = messages.saveDraft({no_webpage=Bool, reply_to_msg_id=int, peer=InputPeer, message='string', entities={MessageEntity}, parseMode='string', })

Return value

If the length of the provided message is bigger than 4096, the message will be split in chunks and the method will be called multiple times, with the same parameters (except for the message), and an array of Bool will be returned instead.

Usage of parseMode:

Set parseMode to html to enable HTML parsing of the message.

Set parseMode to Markdown to enable markown AND html parsing of the message.

The following tags are currently supported:

<br>a newline
<b><i>bold works ok, internal tags are stripped</i> </b>
<strong>bold</strong>
<em>italic</em>
<i>italic</i>
<u>underline</u>
<s>strikethrough</s>
<del>strikethrough</del>
<strike>strikethrough</strike>
<code>inline fixed-width code</code>
<pre>pre-formatted fixed-width code block</pre>
<blockquote>pre-formatted fixed-width code block</blockquote>
<a href="https://github.com">URL</a>
<a href="mention:@danogentili">Mention by username</a>
<a href="mention:186785362">Mention by user id</a>
<pre language="json">Pre tags can have a language attribute</pre>

You can also use normal markdown, note that to create mentions you must use the mention: syntax like in html:

[Mention by username](mention:@danogentili)
[Mention by user id](mention:186785362)

MadelineProto supports all html entities supported by html_entity_decode.

Errors

Code	Type	Description
400	PEER_ID_INVALID	The provided peer id is invalid