sendText

Sends text message.

sendText(chat_id, reply_to_message_id, text, parse_mode, disable_web_page_preview, clear_draft, disable_notification, from_background, reply_markup)

Field	Type	Description
chat_id	int53	Chat to send message
reply_to_message_id	int53	Identifier of a message to reply to
text	string	Formatted text to be sent. Only Bold, Italic, Code, Pre, PreCode and TextUrl entities are allowed to be specified manually.
parse_mode	TextParseMode	Text parse mode, nullable. Can't be used along with enitities.
disable_web_page_preview	Bool	Pass true if rich web page previews for URLs in the message text should be disabled.
clear_draft	Bool	Pass true if a chat message draft should be deleted.
disable_notification	Bool	Pass true, to disable notification about the message, doesn't works in secret chats
from_background	Bool	Pass true, if the message is sent from background
reply_markup	ReplyMarkup	Bots only. Markup for replying to message

Example

• Sends HTML formatted text message into chat 1234567890.

  sendText(1234567890, msg.id, '<b>Bold</b>, <i>italic</i>, <code>monospace</code> and <a href="https://github.com/rizaumami/tdbot.lua">link</a>', 'html', 1)

  Response:

  {
    ["@type"] = "message",
    author_signature = "",
    can_be_deleted_for_all_users = true,
    can_be_deleted_only_for_self = false,
    can_be_edited = false,
    can_be_forwarded = true,
    chat_id = "1234567890",
    contains_unread_mention = false,
    content = {
      ["@type"] = "messageText",
      text = {
        ["@type"] = "formattedText",
        entities = {
          {
            ["@type"] = "textEntity",
            length = 4,
            offset = 0,
            type = {
              ["@type"] = "textEntityTypeBold"
            }
          },
          {
            ["@type"] = "textEntity",
            length = 6,
            offset = 6,
            type = {
              ["@type"] = "textEntityTypeItalic"
            }
          },
          {
            ["@type"] = "textEntity",
            length = 9,
            offset = 14,
            type = {
              ["@type"] = "textEntityTypeCode"
            }
          },
          {
            ["@type"] = "textEntity",
            length = 4,
            offset = 28,
            type = {
              ["@type"] = "textEntityTypeTextUrl",
              url = "https://github.com/rizaumami/tdbot.lua"
            }
          }
        },
        text = "Bold, italic, monospace and link"
      }
    },
    date = 1528822338,
    edit_date = 0,
    id = "15953035273",
    is_channel_post = false,
    is_outgoing = true,
    media_album_id = "0",
    reply_to_message_id = "15953035264",
    sender_user_id = 456786051,
    sending_state = {
      ["@type"] = "messageSendingStatePending"
    },
    ttl = 0,
    ttl_expires_in = 0,
    via_bot_user_id = 0,
    views = 0
  }