Open a bot mini app, sending over user information after user confirmation.
After calling this method, until the user closes the webview, messages.prolongWebView must be called every 60 seconds.
Method schema is available as of layer 143. Switch »
| Name | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
| flags | # | Flags, see TL conditional fields |
| from_bot_menu | flags.4?true | Whether the webview was opened by clicking on the bot's menu button ». |
| silent | flags.5?true | Whether the inline message that will be sent by the bot on behalf of the user once the web app interaction is terminated should be sent silently (no notifications for the receivers). |
| compact | flags.7?true | If set, requests to open the mini app in compact mode (as opposed to fullview mode). Must be set if the mode parameter of the attachment menu deep link is equal to compact. |
| peer | InputPeer | Dialog where the web app is being opened, and where the resulting message will be sent (see the docs for more info »). |
| bot | InputUser | Bot that owns the web app |
| url | flags.1?string | Web app URL |
| start_param | flags.3?string | If the web app was opened from the attachment menu using a attachment menu deep link, start_param should contain the data from the startattach parameter. |
| theme_params | flags.2?DataJSON | Theme parameters » |
| platform | string | Short name of the application; 0-64 English letters, digits, and underscores |
| reply_to | flags.0?InputReplyTo | If set, indicates that the inline message that will be sent by the bot on behalf of the user once the web app interaction is terminated should be sent in reply to the specified message or story. |
| send_as | flags.13?InputPeer | Open the web app as the specified peer, sending the resulting the message as the specified peer. |
| Code | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
| 400 | BOT_INVALID | This is not a valid bot. |
| 400 | BOT_WEBVIEW_DISABLED | A webview cannot be opened in the specified conditions: emitted for example if from_bot_menu or url are set and peer is not the chat with the bot. |
| 400 | INPUT_USER_DEACTIVATED | The specified user was deleted. |
| 400 | MSG_ID_INVALID | Invalid message ID provided. |
| 400 | PEER_ID_INVALID | The provided peer id is invalid. |
| 403 | PRIVACY_PREMIUM_REQUIRED | You need a Telegram Premium subscription to send a message to this user. |
| 400 | SEND_AS_PEER_INVALID | You can't send messages as the specified peer. |
| 400 | YOU_BLOCKED_USER | You blocked this user. |
Bots can choose the behavior of the menu button shown next to the text input field.
Terminate webview interaction started with messages.requestWebView, sending the specified message to the chat on behalf of the user.
Telegram clients must handle special tg:// and t.me deep links encountered in messages, link entities and in other apps by registering OS handlers.
Bots can offer users interactive HTML5 web apps to completely replace any website.
Indicate to the server (from the user side) that the user is still using a web app.
If the method returns a QUERY_ID_INVALID error, the webview must be closed.
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