Send Message

Use this method to send text messages. On success, the sent message is returned.

Basic Parameters

Parameter	Description
Chat ID	Unique identifier for the target chat or username of the target channel (in the format @channelusername). You can easily retrieve a channel's ID from it's web view link at https://web.telegram.org/ - e.g the channel at https://web.telegram.org/z/#-863152528 has the id -863152528.
Parse Mode	Mode for parsing entities in the message text. See formatting options (https://core.telegram.org/bots/api/#formatting-options) for more details.
Text	Text of the message to be sent, 1-4096 characters after entities parsing.

Advanced Parameters

Parameter	Description
Allow Sending Without Reply	Pass True, if the message should be sent even if the specified replied-to message is not found.
Disable Notification	Sends the message silently. Users will receive a notification with no sound.
Disable Web Page Preview	Disables link previews for links in this message.
Entities	Comma-separated JSON list of special entities that appear in message text, which can be specified instead of the Parse Mode. For more information refer to https://core.telegram.org/bots/api#messageentity. e.g [{"type": "mention", "offset": 0, "length": 7}, {"type": "text_link", "offset": 9, "length": 24, "url": "https://app.blinkops.com"}].
Message Thread ID	Unique identifier for the target message thread (topic) of the forum. For forum supergroups only.
Protect Content	Protects the contents of the sent message from forwarding and saving.
Reply Markup	Additional interface options. A JSON-serialized object for an inline keyboard, custom reply keyboard, instructions to remove reply keyboard or to force a reply from the user. For more information, refer to https://core.telegram.org/bots/features#keyboards.
Reply To Message ID	If the message is a reply, ID of the original message.

Example Output

{
    "ok": true,
    "result": {
        "message_id": 156,
        "from": {
            "id": 5927593490,
            "is_bot": true,
            "first_name": "BlinkTests",
            "username": "BlinkOpsBot"
        },
        "chat": {
            "id": -763052328,
            "title": "Tests",
            "type": "group",
            "all_members_are_administrators": true
        },
        "date": 1670440475,
        "text": "https://github.com/yagop/node-telegram-bot-api/issues/884\npre-formatted fixed-width code block\n\npre-formatted fixed-width code block written in the Python programming language",
        "entities": [
            {
                "offset": 0,
                "length": 57,
                "type": "url"
            },
            {
                "offset": 58,
                "length": 37,
                "type": "pre"
            },
            {
                "offset": 96,
                "length": 79,
                "type": "pre",
                "language": "python"
            }
        ],
        "has_protected_content": true
    }
}

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