MadelineProtoDocs/old_docs/API_docs_v91/methods/messages_sendMedia.md

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Method: messages.sendMedia

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Send a media

Parameters:

Name	Type	Description	Required
silent	Bool	Disable notifications?	Optional
background	Bool	Disable background notifications?	Optional
clear_draft	Bool	Clear the message draft of this chat?	Optional
peer	Username, chat ID, Update, Message or InputPeer	Where to send the media	Optional
reply_to_msg_id	int	Reply to message by ID	Optional
media	MessageMedia, Update, Message or InputMedia	The media to send	Optional
message	string	The caption	Yes
reply_markup	ReplyMarkup	Keyboards to send	Optional
entities	Array of MessageEntity	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 (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->sendMedia(['silent' => Bool, 'background' => Bool, 'clear_draft' => Bool, 'peer' => InputPeer, 'reply_to_msg_id' => int, 'media' => InputMedia, 'message' => 'string', 'reply_markup' => ReplyMarkup, 'entities' => [MessageEntity, MessageEntity], 'parse_mode' => 'string', ]);

Or, if you're into Lua:

Updates = messages.sendMedia({silent=Bool, background=Bool, clear_draft=Bool, peer=InputPeer, reply_to_msg_id=int, media=InputMedia, 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>
<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 this method can return:

Error	Description
CHANNEL_INVALID	The provided channel is invalid
CHANNEL_PRIVATE	You haven't joined this channel/supergroup
CHAT_ADMIN_REQUIRED	You must be an admin in this chat to do this
EXTERNAL_URL_INVALID	External URL invalid
FILE_PART_LENGTH_INVALID	The length of a file part is invalid
FILE_PARTS_INVALID	The number of file parts is invalid
IMAGE_PROCESS_FAILED	Failure while processing image
INPUT_USER_DEACTIVATED	The specified user was deleted
MEDIA_CAPTION_TOO_LONG	The caption is too long
MEDIA_EMPTY	The provided media object is invalid
PEER_ID_INVALID	The provided peer id is invalid
PHOTO_EXT_INVALID	The extension of the photo is invalid
PHOTO_INVALID_DIMENSIONS	The photo dimensions are invalid
USER_BANNED_IN_CHANNEL	You're banned from sending messages in supergroups/channels
USER_IS_BLOCKED	User is blocked
USER_IS_BOT	Bots can't send messages to other bots
WEBPAGE_CURL_FAILED	Failure while fetching the webpage with cURL
WEBPAGE_MEDIA_EMPTY	Webpage media empty
CHAT_SEND_MEDIA_FORBIDDEN	You can't send media in this chat
CHAT_WRITE_FORBIDDEN	You can't write in this chat
Timeout	Timeout while fetching data