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Method: messages.editMessage

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Edit a message

Parameters:

Name	Type	Description	Required
no_webpage	Bool	Disable webpage preview	Optional
peer	Username, chat ID, Update, Message or InputPeer	The chat	Optional
id	int	The message ID	Yes
message	string	The new message	Optional
reply_markup	ReplyMarkup	The new keyboard	Optional
entities	Array of MessageEntity	The new entities (for 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:

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

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

$Updates = $MadelineProto->messages->editMessage(['no_webpage' => Bool, 'peer' => InputPeer, 'id' => int, 'message' => 'string', 'reply_markup' => ReplyMarkup, 'entities' => [MessageEntity, MessageEntity], 'parse_mode' => 'string', ]);

Or, if you're into Lua:

Updates = messages.editMessage({no_webpage=Bool, peer=InputPeer, id=int, message='string', reply_markup=ReplyMarkup, entities={MessageEntity}, parse_mode='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 parse_mode:

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

Set parse_mode 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>
<code>inline fixed-width code</code>
<pre>pre-formatted fixed-width code block</pre>
<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 this method can return:

Error	Description
CHANNEL_INVALID	The provided channel is invalid
CHANNEL_PRIVATE	You haven't joined this channel/supergroup
INPUT_USER_DEACTIVATED	The specified user was deleted
MESSAGE_EDIT_TIME_EXPIRED	You can't edit this message anymore, too much time has passed since its creation.
MESSAGE_EMPTY	The provided message is empty
MESSAGE_ID_INVALID	The provided message id is invalid
MESSAGE_NOT_MODIFIED	The message text has not changed
PEER_ID_INVALID	The provided peer id is invalid
CHAT_WRITE_FORBIDDEN	You can't write in this chat
MESSAGE_AUTHOR_REQUIRED	Message author required