Method: contacts.importContacts

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Imports contacts: saves a full list on the server, adds already registered contacts to the contact list, returns added contacts and their info.

Use contacts.addContact to add Telegram contacts without actually using their phone number.

Parameters:

Return type: contacts.ImportedContacts

Can users use this method: YES

Can bots use this method: NO

Can bots use this method over a business connection with the businessConnectionId flag: NO

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();

$contacts_ImportedContacts = $MadelineProto->contacts->importContacts(contacts: [$InputContact, $InputContact], );