Telegram Message Types

There are various types of message content that can be sent to your users:

• Text
• Image
• Audio
• Video
• File
• Animation
• Button
• Keyboards

Text

Telegram Text Message

{
  type: "TEXT",
  text: "Hello World!",
}

Property	Description	Required
type	TEXT	Y
text	String	Y

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Image

Telegram Image

{
  type: "IMAGE",
  url: "http://image.png",
  text: "Some title",
}

Property	Description	Required
type	IMAGE	Y
url	URL of the image file	Y
text	String	N

note

• Image must be a valid image file format, including .jpg, .jpeg and .png
• Maximum file size is 25MB

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Audio

Telegram Audio

{
  type: "AUDIO",
  url: "http://audio.mp3",
}

Property	Description	Required
type	AUDIO	Y
url	URL of the audio file	Y

note

• Audio must be a valid audio file format, including .aac, .flac, .m4a, .m4p, .mp3, .wav, .wma
• Maximum file size is 25MB

---

Video

Telegram Video

{
  type: "VIDEO",
  url: "http://video.mp4",
  text: "Some title",
}

Property	Description	Required
type	VIDEO	Y
url	URL of the video file	Y
text	String	N

note

• Video must be a valid video file format, including .mkv, .gif, .avi, .wmv, .rmvb, .mp4, .m4v, .mpg, .mpeg, .3gp
• Maximum file size is 25MB

---

File

Telegram File

{
  type: "FILE",
  url: "http://file.pdf",
}

Property	Description	Required
type	FILE	Y
url	URL of the file attachment	Y

note

• File must be a valid file format, including .pdf
• Maximum file size is 25MB

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Animation

Animation is image file in GIF.

Telegram Animation

{
  type: "ANIMATION",
  url: "https://img.gif",
  text: "Some title",
  attachmentId: "SomeStringID"
}

Property	Description	Required
type	ANIMATION	Y
url	URL of the image file	Y
text	String	N
attachmentId	String; ID of your uploaded image	N

note

• Image must be a valid image file format, including .gif
• Maximum file size is 25MB

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Button

Telegram Button

{
  type: "Any Message Type",
  url: "https://img.png",
  text: "What can I do to help?",
  buttons: [{
    type: "postback",
    title: "some title",
    payload: "a long payload here"
  }],
}

Response Object

Property	Description	Required
type	Any message type specified above	Y
url	URL of the message content if message type is IMAGE, AUDIO, VIDEO, FILE or ANIMATION	N
text	String; applicable only if message type is TEXT	N
buttons	Array of buttons; only "postback" can be set as button type	Y

buttons Object

Property	Description	Required
type	postback	Y
title	String	Y
payload	Custom defined payload triggers	Y

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Keyboards

Telegram Keyboards

{
  type: "Any Message Type",
  url: "https://img.png",
  text: "What can I do to help?",
  keyboards: [
    [
      { text: "Keyboard 1" },
      { text: "Keyboard 2" },
      { text: "Keyboard 3" }
    ]
  ]
}

Response Object| Property | Description | Required | --- | --- | --- | type | Any message type specified above | Y | url | URL of the message content if message type is IMAGE, AUDIO, VIDEO, FILE or ANIMATION | N | text | String; applicable only if message type is TEXT | N | keyboards | Array of keyboard buttons; only set keywords as triggers | Ykeyboards Object| Property | Description | Required | --- | --- | --- | text | String; title of keyboard buttons | Y