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Method: messages.sendMessage

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Sends a message to a chat

Parameters:

Name	Type	Description	Required
no_webpage	Bool	Set this flag to disable generation of the webpage preview	Optional
silent	Bool	Send this message silently (no notifications for the receivers)	Optional
background	Bool	Send this message as background message	Optional
clear_draft	Bool	Clear the draft field	Optional
peer	Username, chat ID, Update, Message or InputPeer	The destination where the message will be sent	Optional
reply_to_msg_id	int	The message ID to which this message will reply to	Optional
message	string	The message	Yes
reply_markup	ReplyMarkup	Reply markup for sending bot buttons	Optional
entities	Array of MessageEntity	Message entities for sending styled text	Optional
parse_mode	string	Whether to parse HTML or Markdown markup in the message	Optional

Return type: Updates

Can bots use this method: YES

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();

$Updates = $MadelineProto->messages->sendMessage(['no_webpage' => Bool, 'silent' => Bool, 'background' => Bool, 'clear_draft' => Bool, 'peer' => InputPeer, 'reply_to_msg_id' => int, 'message' => 'string', 'reply_markup' => ReplyMarkup, 'entities' => [MessageEntity, MessageEntity], 'parse_mode' => 'string', ]);

Or, if you're into Lua:

Updates = messages.sendMessage({no_webpage=Bool, silent=Bool, background=Bool, clear_draft=Bool, peer=InputPeer, reply_to_msg_id=int, message='string', reply_markup=ReplyMarkup, entities={MessageEntity}, parseMode='string', })

Usage of reply_markup

You can provide bot API reply_markup objects here.

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 Updates 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	BOT_DOMAIN_INVALID	Bot domain invalid
400	BOT_INVALID	This is not a valid bot
400	BUTTON_DATA_INVALID	The data of one or more of the buttons you provided is invalid
400	BUTTON_TYPE_INVALID	The type of one or more of the buttons you provided is invalid
400	BUTTON_URL_INVALID	Button URL invalid
400	CHANNEL_INVALID	The provided channel is invalid
400	CHANNEL_PRIVATE	You haven't joined this channel/supergroup
400	CHAT_ADMIN_REQUIRED	You must be an admin in this chat to do this
400	CHAT_ID_INVALID	The provided chat id is invalid
400	CHAT_RESTRICTED	You can't send messages in this chat, you were restricted
400	ENCRYPTION_DECLINED	The secret chat was declined
400	ENTITY_MENTION_USER_INVALID	You mentioned an invalid user
400	FROM_MESSAGE_BOT_DISABLED	Bots can't use fromMessage min constructors
400	INPUT_USER_DEACTIVATED	The specified user was deleted
400	MESSAGE_EMPTY	The provided message is empty
400	MESSAGE_TOO_LONG	The provided message is too long
400	MSG_ID_INVALID	Invalid message ID provided
400	PEER_ID_INVALID	The provided peer id is invalid
400	PINNED_DIALOGS_TOO_MUCH	Too many pinned dialogs
400	REPLY_MARKUP_INVALID	The provided reply markup is invalid
400	SCHEDULE_BOT_NOT_ALLOWED	Bots cannot schedule messages
400	SCHEDULE_TOO_MUCH	There are too many scheduled messages
400	USER_BANNED_IN_CHANNEL	You're banned from sending messages in supergroups/channels
400	USER_IS_BLOCKED	You were blocked by this user
400	USER_IS_BOT	Bots can't send messages to other bots
400	YOU_BLOCKED_USER	You blocked this user
406	AUTH_KEY_DUPLICATED	An auth key with the same ID was already generated
401	AUTH_KEY_PERM_EMPTY	The temporary auth key must be binded to the permanent auth key to use these methods.
403	CHAT_WRITE_FORBIDDEN	You can't write in this chat
420	SLOWMODE_WAIT_X	Slowmode is enabled in this chat: you must wait for the specified number of seconds before sending another message to the chat.
-503	Timeout	Timeout while fetching data