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• Logout

• Login

• Change 2FA password

• Get all chats, broadcast a message to all chats

• Get the full participant list of a channel/group/supergroup

• Get full info about a user/chat/supergroup/channel

• Get info about a user/chat/supergroup/channel

• Get info about the currently logged-in user

• Upload or download files up to 1.5 GB

• Make a phone call and play a song

• Create a secret chat bot

• 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

• 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: 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: 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 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: channels.createChannel

• Creates a new chat: messages.createChat

• Delete a channel/supergroup: channels.deleteChannel

• Delete all messages sent by a certain user in a supergroup: channels.deleteUserHistory

• Delete messages in a channel/supergroup: 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: 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 name of a channel/supergroup: channels.editTitle

• Edits notification settings from a given user/group, from all users/all groups: account.updateNotifySettings

• Enable/disable message signatures in channels: channels.toggleSignatures

• Export an invite link for a chat: messages.exportChatInvite

• Find out if a media message's caption can be edited: messages.getMessageEditData

• Forwards messages by their IDs: messages.forwardMessages

• Get channel/supergroup 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: messages.getMessagesViews

• Get changelog of current app. : help.getAppChangelog

• Get days to live of account: account.getAccountTTL

• Get full info about a channel: channels.getFullChannel

• Get info about channels/supergroups: channels.getChannels

• Get info about a channel/supergroup participant: channels.getParticipant

• Get info about a stickerset: messages.getStickerSet

• Get link and embed info of a message in a channel/supergroup: channels.exportMessageLink

• Get logged-in sessions: account.getAuthorizations

• Get new 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 info & so on): account.getPasswordSettings

• Get saved GIFs: messages.getSavedGifs

• Get stickers by emoji: messages.getStickers

• Get the participants of a supergroup/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

• Import a chat invite and join a private chat/supergroup/channel: messages.importChatInvite

• 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 users to a channel/supergroup: channels.inviteToChannel

• Invoke a request without subscribing the used connection for updates (this is enabled by default for file queries): invokeWithoutUpdates

• Invoke the specified query using the specified API layer: 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

• Leave a channel/supergroup: channels.leaveChannel

• Log out an active authorized session 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: messages.editChatAdmin

• Mark channel/supergroup 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: 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: 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 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, only for accounts with a recovery email configured: 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 for more info: auth.resendCode

• Reset the 2FA password using the recovery code sent using auth.requestPasswordRecovery: 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, including 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 localized 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 result obtained using messages.getInlineBotResults: 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 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

• Signs in a user with a validated phone number: auth.signIn

• Start a conversation with a bot using a deep linking parameter: messages.startBot

• Terminates all user's authorized sessions except for the current one: auth.resetAuthorizations

• Try logging to an account protected by a 2FA password: auth.checkPassword

• Turn a legacy group into a supergroup: 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: account.updateDeviceLocked