Method: messages.sendMedia

Send a media

Parameters:

Name	Type	Description	Required
silent	Bool	Send message silently (no notification should be triggered)	Optional
background	Bool	Send message in background	Optional
clear_draft	Bool	Clear the draft	Optional
noforwards	Bool	Only for bots, disallows forwarding and saving of the messages, even if the destination chat doesn’t have content protection enabled	Optional
update_stickersets_order	Bool	Whether to move used stickersets to top, see here for more info on this flag »	Optional
peer	Username, chat ID, Update, Message or InputPeer	Destination	Optional
reply_to_msg_id	int	Message ID to which this message should reply to	Optional
top_msg_id	int	This field must contain the topic ID only when replying to messages in forum topics different from the “General” topic (i.e. `reply_to_msg_id` is set and `reply_to_msg_id != topicID` and `topicID != 1`). If the replied-to message is deleted before the method finishes execution, the value in this field will be used to send the message to the correct topic, instead of the “General” topic.	Optional
media	MessageMedia, Update, Message or InputMedia	Attached media	Optional
message	string	Caption	Yes
reply_markup	ReplyMarkup	Reply markup for bot keyboards	Optional
entities	Array of MessageEntity	Message entities for styled text	Optional
parse_mode	string	Whether to parse HTML or Markdown markup in the message	Optional
schedule_date	int	Scheduled message date for scheduled messages	Optional
send_as	Username, chat ID, Update, Message or InputPeer	Send this message as the specified peer	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, noforwards: Bool, update_stickersets_order: Bool, peer: InputPeer, reply_to_msg_id: int, top_msg_id: int, media: InputMedia, message: 'string', reply_markup: ReplyMarkup, entities: [MessageEntity, MessageEntity], parse_mode: 'string', schedule_date: int, send_as: InputPeer, );

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 parseMode:

Set parseMode to html to enable HTML parsing of the message.

Set parseMode 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>
<a href="tg://user?id=186785362">Mention by user id</a>
Custom emoji: <emoji id="5368324170671202286">👍</emoji>
Custom emoji: <tg-emoji emoji-id="5368324170671202286">👍</tg-emoji>
<pre language="json">Pre tags can have a language attribute</pre>
<spoiler>Spoiler</spoiler>
<tg-spoiler>Spoiler</tg-spoiler>

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)
[Mention by user id](tg://user?id=186785362)
[👍](emoji:5368324170671202286)
[👍](tg://emoji?id=5368324170671202286)

MadelineProto supports all html entities supported by html_entity_decode.