photo-sticker-msg.md

Photo and Sticker Messages

You can provide the source file for almost all multimedia messages (e.g. photo, video) in 3 ways:

• Uploading a file with the HTTP request
• HTTP URL for Telegram to get a file from the internet
• file_id of an existing file on Telegram servers (recommended)

Examples in this section show all three. You will learn more about them later on when we discuss file upload and download.

Photo

Sending a photo is simple. Here is an example:

{{#include ../../../Examples/2/SendMessage.cs:send-photo}}

Caption

Multimedia messages can optionally have a caption attached to them. Here we sent a caption in HTML format. A user can click on Pixabay in the caption to open its URL in the browser.

Similar to message entities discussed before, caption entities on Message object are the result of parsing formatted(Markdown or HTML) caption text. Try inspecting these properties in debug mode:

• message.Caption: caption in plain text without formatting
• message.CaptionEntities: info about special entities in the caption
• message.CaptionEntityValues: text values of mentioned entities

Photo Message

The message returned from this method represents a photo message because message.Photo has a value. Its value is a PhotoSize array with each element representing the same photo in different dimensions. If your bot needs to send this photo again at some point, it is recommended to store this array so you can reuse the file_id value.

Here is how message.Photo array looks like in JSON:

[
  {
    "file_id": "AgADBAADDqgxG-QDDVCm5JVvld7MN0z6kBkABCQawlb-dBXqBZUEAAEC",
    "file_size": 1254,
    "width": 90,
    "height": 60
  },
  {
    "file_id": "AgADBAADDqgxG-QDDVCm5JVvld7MN0z6kBkABAKByRnc22RmBpUEAAEC",
    "file_size": 16419,
    "width": 320,
    "height": 213
  },
  {
    "file_id": "AgADBAADDqgxG-QDDVCm5JVvld7MN0z6kBkABHezqGiNOz9yB5UEAAEC",
    "file_size": 57865,
    "width": 640,
    "height": 426
  }
]

Sticker

Telegram stickers are fun and our bot is about to send its very first sticker. Sticker files should be in WebP format.

This code sends the same sticker twice. First by passing HTTP URL to a WebP sticker file and second by reusing FileId of the same sticker on Telegram servers.

{{#include ../../../Examples/2/SendMessage.cs:send-sticker}}

Try inspecting the sticker1.Sticker property. It is of type Sticker and its schema looks similar to a photo.

There is more to stickers and we will talk about them in greater details later.