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For example:</li> </ul> <pre><code>safely(\n    {\n        it.printStackTrace()\n        \"error\"\n    }\n) {\n    error(\"Hi :)\") // emulate exception throwing\n    \"ok\"\n} // result will be with type String\n</code></pre> <ul> <li>Safely without exceptions - almost the same as <code>safely</code>, but this type by default allow to return nullable value (when exception was thrown) instead of just throwing (as with <code>safely</code>):</li> </ul> <pre><code>safelyWithouExceptions {\n    // do something\n} // will returns nullable result type\n</code></pre>"},{"location":"tgbotapi/logic/exceptions-handling.html#global-exceptions-handling","title":"Global exceptions handling","text":"<p>The most simple way to configure exceptions handling is to change <code>CoroutineContext</code> when you are creating your <code>CoroutineScope</code> for bot processing:</p> <pre><code>val bot = telegramBot(\"TOKEN\")\n\nbot.buildBehaviour (\n    scope = scope,\n    defaultExceptionsHandler = {\n        it.printStackTrace()\n    }\n) {\n    // ...\n}\n</code></pre> <p>OR</p> <pre><code>val bot = telegramBotWithBehaviour (\n    \"TOKEN\",\n    scope = scope,\n    defaultExceptionsHandler = {\n        it.printStackTrace()\n    }\n) {\n    // ...\n}\n</code></pre> <p>Here we have used <code>ContextSafelyExceptionHandler</code> class. It will pass default handling of exceptions and will call the block in most cases when something inside of your bot logic has thrown exception.</p>"},{"location":"tgbotapi/logic/files-handling.html","title":"Files handling","text":"<p>According to the documentation there are several ways to work with files:</p> <ul> <li>By FileId</li> <li>By FileUrl (<code>typealias</code> for the <code>FileId</code>)</li> <li>By some MultipartFile (in Telegram Bot API it is multipart requests)</li> </ul>"},{"location":"tgbotapi/logic/files-handling.html#files-receiving","title":"Files receiving","text":"<p>There are several cases you may need in your app to work with files:</p> <ul> <li>Save <code>FileId</code> (for sending in future)</li> <li>Download some file into memory/file in filesystem</li> </ul>"},{"location":"tgbotapi/logic/files-handling.html#where-to-get-file-id-or-url","title":"Where to get File id or url?","text":"<p>The most simple way to send some file is to get file id and send it. You may get file id from any message with media. For example, if you have received some Message, you may use asCommonMessage conversation to be able to get its <code>content</code> and then convert it to some content with media. Full code here:</p> <pre><code>val message: Message;\n\nval fileId = message.asCommonMessage() ?.withContent&lt;MediaContent&gt;() ?.content ?.media ?.fileId;\n</code></pre> <p>WAT? O.o</p> <p>In the code above we get some message, safely converted it to <code>CommonMessage</code> with <code>asCommonMessage</code>, then safely took its content via <code>withContent&lt;MediaContent&gt;() ?.content</code> and then just get its media file id.</p>"},{"location":"tgbotapi/logic/files-handling.html#download-files","title":"Download files","text":"<p>There are three ways to download files:</p> <ul> <li>Download it in memory as <code>ByteArray</code></li> <li>Take <code>ByteReadChannelAllocator</code> which allow to retrieve ByteReadChannel and do whatever you want with it</li> <li><code>[JVM Only]</code> Download it directly to file or temporal file</li> </ul>"},{"location":"tgbotapi/logic/files-handling.html#downloading-with-api-extensions","title":"Downloading with <code>API</code> extensions","text":""},{"location":"tgbotapi/logic/files-handling.html#files-jvmandroid","title":"Files (JVM/Android)","text":"<pre><code>val bot: TelegramBot;\nval fileId: FileId;\nval outputFile: File;\n\nbot.downloadFile(fileId, outputFile)\n</code></pre> <p>See downloadFile extension docs in the JVM tab to get more available options</p> <p>There is also way with saving of data into temporal file. That will allow you to do with data whatever you want without high requirements to memory or network connection:</p> <pre><code>val bot: TelegramBot;\nval fileId: FileId;\n\nval tempFile: File = bot.downloadFileToTemp(fileId)\n</code></pre> <p>See downloadFileToTemp extension docs to get more available options</p>"},{"location":"tgbotapi/logic/files-handling.html#byte-read-channel","title":"Byte read channel","text":"<pre><code>val bot: TelegramBot;\nval fileId: FileId;\n\nval bytes: ByteReadChannelAllocator = bot.downloadFileStream(fileId)\n</code></pre> <p>See downloadFileStream extension docs to get more available options</p>"},{"location":"tgbotapi/logic/files-handling.html#byte-read-channel-allocator","title":"Byte read channel allocator","text":"<pre><code>val bot: TelegramBot;\nval fileId: FileId;\n\nval bytes: ByteReadChannelAllocator = bot.downloadFileStreamAllocator(fileId)\n</code></pre> <p>See downloadFileStreamAllocator extension docs to get more available options</p>"},{"location":"tgbotapi/logic/files-handling.html#byte-arrays","title":"Byte arrays","text":"<pre><code>val bot: TelegramBot;\nval fileId: FileId;\n\nval bytes: ByteArray = bot.downloadFile(fileId)\n</code></pre> <p>See downloadFile extension docs to get more available options</p>"},{"location":"tgbotapi/logic/files-handling.html#low-level-or-how-does-it-work","title":"Low level or <code>how does it work?</code>","text":"<p>You may download file with streams or with downloading into the memory first. On low level you should do several things. They are presented in next snippet:</p> <pre><code>val bot: TelegramBot;\nval fileId: FileId;\n\nval pathedFile: PathedFile = bot.execute(GetFile(fileId))\n\nval downloadedBytes: ByteArray = bot.execute(DownloadFile(pathedFile.filePath))\n</code></pre> <p>In the snippet above we are getting file <code>PathedFile</code> by its <code>FileId</code> and use it to download file bytes into memory using <code>DownloadFile</code> request.</p> <p>You may use almost the same way but with byte read channel allocator:</p> <pre><code>val bot: TelegramBot;\nval fileId: FileId;\n\nval pathedFile: PathedFile = bot.execute(GetFile(fileId))\n\nval channelAllocator: ByteReadChannelAllocator = bot.execute(DownloadFileStream(pathedFile.filePath))\n\nval byteReadChannel: ByteReadChannel = channelAllocator()\n</code></pre> <p>And then you may look into ByteReadChannel docs to get more info about what you can do with that.</p> <p>Several useful links</p> <ul> <li>GetFile</li> <li>PathedFile</li> <li>DownloadFile</li> <li>DownloadFileStream</li> </ul>"},{"location":"tgbotapi/logic/files-handling.html#files-sending","title":"Files sending","text":"<p>Of course, in most cases you must be sure that file have correct type.</p>"},{"location":"tgbotapi/logic/files-handling.html#fileid-and-fileurl","title":"FileId and FileUrl","text":"<p>It is the most simple way to send any media in Telegram, but this way have several restrictions:</p> <ul> <li>The <code>FileId</code> which has retrieved for file should not (and probably will not too) equal to the <code>FileId</code> retrieved by some other bot</li> <li>There is a chance that the file id you are using will be expired with time</li> </ul>"},{"location":"tgbotapi/logic/files-handling.html#sending-via-file","title":"Sending via file","text":"<p>JS Restrictions</p> <p> Sending via file is accessible from all supported platforms, but there is small note about <code>JS</code> - due to restrictions of work with streams and stream-like data (<code>JS</code> have no native support of files streaming) on this platform all the files will be loaded inside of RAM before the sending to the telegram services.</p> <p>Sending via file is available throw the MultipartFile. There are several wayt to get it:</p> <ul> <li>Simple creating via its constructor: <code>MultipartFile(\"filename.jpg\") { /* here Input allocation */ }</code></li> <li>Via asMultiparFile extension applicable to any <code>ByteArray</code>, <code>ByteReadChannel</code>, <code>ByteReadChannelAllocator</code> or <code>File</code> (on any platform)</li> </ul> <p>In most cases, sending via files looks like in the next snippet:</p> <pre><code>val file: File;\n\nbot.sendDocument(chatId, file.asMultipartFile())\n</code></pre>"},{"location":"tgbotapi/logic/low-level-work-with-bots.html","title":"Low-level work with bots","text":"<p>The base version of library was done a lot of time ago and just got several additions related to improvements, updates in Telegram Bot API or some requests from our community.</p>"},{"location":"tgbotapi/logic/low-level-work-with-bots.html#base-things","title":"Base things","text":"<p>There are several important things in context of this library:</p> <ul> <li>RequestsExecutor (also \u201cknown\u201d as <code>TelegramBot</code>)</li> <li>Types</li> <li>Requests</li> </ul> <p>So, in most cases all your request calls with simplified api of this library (like <code>bot.getMe()</code>) will looks like <code>bot.execute(GetMe)</code>. Result of these calls is defined in type of any request (for example, for GetMe request the result type is ExtendedBot). As a result, you can avoid any extension api (like special API extensions) and use low level request with full controlling of the whole logic flow.</p>"},{"location":"tgbotapi/logic/low-level-work-with-bots.html#how-to-handle-updates","title":"How to handle updates","text":"<p>As was written above, it will require some request:</p> <pre><code>val updates = bot.execute(GetUpdates())\n</code></pre> <p>Result type of GetUpdates request is Update. You may find inheritors of this interface in Update kdocs.</p>"},{"location":"tgbotapi/logic/low-level-work-with-bots.html#what-is-next","title":"What is next?","text":"<p>As was said above, you may look into our API extensions in case you wish to use more high-level functions instead of <code>bot.execute(SomeRequest())</code>. Besides, it will be very useful to know more about updates retrieving.</p>"},{"location":"tgbotapi/logic/media-groups.html","title":"Media Groups","text":"<p>As you know, Telegram have the feature named Media Groups. Media groups have several differences with the common messages:</p> <ul> <li>Each media group message contains special media group id</li> <li>Media group may have special caption which will be visible if only the first message of media group contains caption</li> <li>In most cases media groups came with long polling/webhooks in one pack</li> <li>Media groups can be one of three types:<ul> <li>Visual (image/video)</li> <li>Documents</li> <li>Playlists (audio)</li> </ul> </li> </ul>"},{"location":"tgbotapi/logic/media-groups.html#specific-of-media-groups-in-libraries","title":"Specific of media groups in libraries","text":"<p>Row updates</p> <p> In tgbotapi there is no any additional handling of media groups by default and in case you will use simple bot.getUpdates, you will get the list of row updates and media groups will be included in this list as separated messages with MediaGroupPartContent. In that case you may use convertWithMediaGroupUpdates to be able to work with media groups as will be described below</p> <p>In case you are using standard long polling (one of alternatives is telegramBotWithBehaviourAndLongPolling) or webhooks updates will be converted uner the hood and as a result, you will take media groups as a content in one message:</p> <pre><code>telegramBotWithBehaviourAndLongPolling(\n  \"token\"\n) {\n  onVisualGallery { // it: CommonMessage&lt;MediaGroupContent&lt;VisualMediaGroupPartContent&gt;&gt;\n    it.content // MediaGroupContent&lt;VisualMediaGroupPartContent&gt;\n    it.content.group // List&lt;MediaGroupCollectionContent.PartWrapper&lt;VisualMediaGroupPartContent&gt;&gt;\n    it.content.group.forEach { // it: MediaGroupCollectionContent.PartWrapper&lt;VisualMediaGroupPartContent&gt;\n      it.messageId // source message id for current media group part\n      it.sourceMessage // source message for current media group part\n      it.content // VisualMediaGroupPartContent\n      println(it.content) // will print current content part info\n    }\n  }\n}\n</code></pre> <p>KDocs:</p> <ul> <li>onVisualGallery</li> <li>MediaGroupContent</li> <li>VisualMediaGroupPartContent</li> <li>MediaGroupCollectionContent.PartWrapper</li> </ul> <p>In two words, in difference with row Telegram Bot API, you will take media groups in one message instead of messages list.</p>"},{"location":"tgbotapi/logic/types-conversations.html","title":"Types conversations","text":"<p>One of the most important topics in context of tgbotapi is types conversations. This library is very strong-typed and a lot of things are based on types hierarchy. Lets look into the hierarchy of classes for the Message in 0.35.8: </p> <p>As you may see, it is a little bit complex and require several tools for types conversation.</p>"},{"location":"tgbotapi/logic/types-conversations.html#as","title":"As","text":"<p><code>as</code> conversations will return new type in case if it is possible. For example, when you got <code>Message</code>, you may use <code>asContentMessage</code> conversation to get message with <code>content</code>:</p> <pre><code>val message: Message;\nprintln(message.asContentMessage() ?.content)\n</code></pre> <p>This code will print <code>null</code> in case when <code>message</code> is not <code>ContentMessage</code>, and <code>content</code> when is.</p>"},{"location":"tgbotapi/logic/types-conversations.html#require","title":"Require","text":"<p><code>require</code> works like <code>as</code>, but instead of returning nullable type, it will always return object with required type OR throw <code>ClassCastException</code>:</p> <pre><code>val message: Message;\nprintln(message.requireContentMessage().content)\n</code></pre> <p>This code will throw exception when message is not <code>ContentMessage</code> and print <code>content</code> when is.</p>"},{"location":"tgbotapi/logic/types-conversations.html#when","title":"When","text":"<p><code>when</code> extensions will call passed <code>block</code> when type is correct. For example:</p> <pre><code>val message: Message;\nmessage.whenContentMessage {\n    println(it.content)\n}\n</code></pre> <p>Code placed above will print <code>content</code> when <code>message</code> is <code>ContentMessage</code> and do nothing when not</p>"},{"location":"tgbotapi/logic/updates-with-flows.html","title":"Updates with flows","text":"<p>Of course, in most cases here we will look up the way of using utils extnsions, but you may read deeper about updates retrieving here.</p>"},{"location":"tgbotapi/logic/updates-with-flows.html#phylosophy-of-flow-updates-retrieving","title":"Phylosophy of <code>Flow</code> updates retrieving","text":"<p>In most updates retrieving processes there are two components: UpdatesFiler and its inheritor FlowsUpdatesFilter. It is assumed, that you will do several things in your app to handle updates:</p> <ul> <li>Create your <code>UpdatesFilter</code> (for example, with flowsUpdatesFilter factory)</li> <li>Set it up (in case of <code>flowsUpdatesFilter</code> you will set up updates handling in the lambda passed to this factory)</li> <li>Provide updates to this filter with filter#asUpdateReceiver object</li> </ul> <p>Let\u2019s look how it works with the factory above:</p> <pre><code>// Step 1 - create filter\nval filter = flowsUpdatesFilter {\n  // Step 2 - set up handling. In this case we will print any message from group or user in console\n  messageFlow.onEach {\n    println(it)\n  }.launchIn(someCoroutineScope)\n}\n\n// Step 3 - passing updates to filter\nbot.getUpdates().forEach {\n  filter.asUpdatesReceiver(it)\n}\n</code></pre>"},{"location":"tgbotapi/logic/updates-with-flows.html#long-polling","title":"Long polling","text":"<p>Some example with long polling has been described above. But it is more useful to use some factories for it. In this page we will look for simple variant with TelegramBot#longPolling. So, with this function, your handling of updates will looks like:</p> <pre><code>val bot = telegramBot(\"TOKEN\")\n\nbot.longPolling {\n  messageFlow.onEach {\n    println(it)\n  }.launchIn(someCoroutineScope)\n}.join()\n</code></pre> <p>This example looks like the example above with three steps, but there are several important things here:</p> <ul> <li>You do not manage retrieving of updates by hands</li> <li><code>.join()</code> will suspend your function \ud83d\ude0a <code>longPolling</code> function returns <code>Job</code> and you may use it to:</li> <li><code>cancel</code> working of long polling (just call <code>job.cancel()</code>)</li> <li><code>join</code> and wait while the work of <code>longPolling</code> will not be completed (it will works infinity if you will not cancel it anywhere)</li> <li>FlowsUpdatesFilter has been created under the hood of <code>longPolling</code> function</li> </ul>"},{"location":"tgbotapi/logic/updates-with-flows.html#results-and-what-is-next","title":"Results and <code>What is next?</code>","text":"<p>As a result you can start listen updates and react on it. Next recommended articles:</p> <ul> <li>Behaviour Builder as a variant of asynchronous handling of your bot logic</li> <li>FSM variant of Behaviour Builder</li> </ul>"},{"location":"tgbotapi/updates/heroku.html","title":"Heroku","text":"<p>Preview reading</p> <p>It is recommended to visit our pages about UpdatesFilters and Webhooks to have more clear understanding about what is happening in this examples page</p> <p>Heroku is a popular place for bots hosting. In common case you will need to configure webhooks for your server to include getting updates without problems. There are several things related to heroku you should know:</p> <ul> <li>Heroku apps by default accessible via <code>https://&lt;app name&gt;.herokuapp.com/</code></li> <li>Heroku provide one port to be proxied for the link above. You can retrieve number of this port by calling <code>System.getenv(\"PORT\").toInt()</code></li> <li>Currently (<code>Sat Aug 15 5:04:21 +00 2020</code>) there is only one official server engine for ktor which is correctly working with Heroku: Tomcat server engine</li> </ul> <p>Server configuration alternatives</p> <p> Here will be presented variants of configuration of webhooks and starting server. You always able to set webhook manualy, create your own ktor server and include webhooks handling in it or create and start server with only webhooks handling. More info you can get on page Webhooks</p>"},{"location":"tgbotapi/updates/heroku.html#short-example-with-behaviour-builder","title":"Short example with Behaviour Builder","text":"<pre><code>suspend fun main {\n    // This subroute will be used as random webhook subroute to improve security according to the recommendations of Telegram\n    val subroute = uuid4().toString()\n    // Input/Output coroutines scope more info here: https://kotlinlang.org/docs/coroutines-guide.html\n    val scope = CoroutineScope(Dispatchers.IO)\n    // Here will be automatically created bot and available inside of lambda where you will setup your bot behaviour\n    telegramBotWithBehaviour(\n        // Pass TOKEN inside of your application environment variables\n        System.getenv(\"TOKEN\"),\n        scope = scope\n    ) {\n        // Set up webhooks and start to listen them\n        setWebhookInfoAndStartListenWebhooks(\n            // Automatic env which will be passed by heroku to the app\n            System.getenv(\"PORT\").toInt(),\n            // Server engine. 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More about this you can read in wiki.</p>"},{"location":"tgbotapi/updates/long-polling.html#related-topics","title":"Related topics","text":"<ul> <li>Updates filters</li> </ul>"},{"location":"tgbotapi/updates/long-polling.html#long-polling-in-this-library","title":"Long polling in this library","text":"<p>There are a lot of ways to include work with long polling:</p> <ul> <li><code>RequestsExecutor#longPollingFlow</code> Is the base way to get all updates cold Flow. Remember, that this flow will not be launched automatically<ul> <li><code>RequestsExecutor#startGettingOfUpdatesByLongPolling</code> Old and almost deprecated way</li> <li><code>RequestsExecutor#longPolling</code> Works like <code>startGettingOfUpdatesByLongPolling</code> but shorted in a name :)</li> </ul> </li> <li><code>RequestsExecutor#createAccumulatedUpdatesRetrieverFlow</code> Works like <code>longPollingFlow</code>, but flow inside will return only the updates accumulated at the moment of calls (all new updates will not be passed throw this flow)<ul> <li><code>RequestsExecutor#retrieveAccumulatedUpdates</code> Use <code>createAccumulatedUpdatesRetrieverFlow</code> to perform all accumulated updates</li> <li><code>RequestsExecutor#flushAccumulatedUpdates</code> Works like <code>retrieveAccumulatedUpdates</code> but perform all updates directly in a place of calling</li> </ul> </li> <li>By yourself with <code>GetUpdates</code> request or <code>RequestsExecutor#getUpdates</code> extension</li> </ul>"},{"location":"tgbotapi/updates/long-polling.html#longpolling","title":"longPolling","text":"<p><code>longPolling</code> is a simple way to start getting updates and work with bot:</p> <pre><code>val bot = telegramBot(token)\nbot.longPolling(\n  textMessages().subscribe(scope) { // here \"scope\" is a CoroutineScope\n    println(it) // will be printed each update from chats with messages\n  }\n)\n</code></pre>"},{"location":"tgbotapi/updates/long-polling.html#startgettingofupdatesbylongpolling","title":"startGettingOfUpdatesByLongPolling","text":"<p>The main aim of <code>startGettingOfUpdatesByLongPolling</code> extension was to provide more simple way to get updates in automatic mode:</p> <pre><code>val bot = telegramBot(token)\nbot.startGettingOfUpdatesByLongPolling(\n  {\n    println(it) // will be printed each update from chats with messages\n  }\n)\n</code></pre> <p>The other way is to use the most basic <code>startGettingOfUpdatesByLongPolling</code> extension:</p> <pre><code>val bot = telegramBot(token)\nbot.startGettingOfUpdatesByLongPolling {\n  println(it) // will be printed each update\n}\n</code></pre>"},{"location":"tgbotapi/updates/long-polling.html#see-also","title":"See also","text":"<ul> <li>Webhooks</li> <li>Updates filters</li> </ul>"},{"location":"tgbotapi/updates/updates-filters.html","title":"Updates filters","text":"<p>Due to the fact, that anyway you will get updates in one format (<code>Update</code> objects), some time ago was solved to create one point of updates filters for more usefull way of updates handling</p>"},{"location":"tgbotapi/updates/updates-filters.html#updatesfilter","title":"UpdatesFilter","text":"<p><code>UpdatesFilter</code> currently have two properties:</p> <ul> <li><code>asUpdateReceiver</code> - required to represent this filter as common updates receiver which able to get any <code>Update</code></li> <li><code>allowedUpdates</code> - required to determine, which updates are usefull for this filter</li> </ul> <p>Anyway, this filter can\u2019t work with updates by itself. For retrieving updates you should pass this filter to some of getting updates functions (long polling or webhooks).</p>"},{"location":"tgbotapi/updates/updates-filters.html#simpleupdatesfilter","title":"SimpleUpdatesFilter","text":"<p><code>SimpleUpdatesFilter</code> is a simple variant of filters. It have a lot of <code>UpdateReceiver</code> properties which can be set up on creating of this object. For example, if you wish to get messages from chats (but not from channels), you can use next snippet:</p> <pre><code>SimpleUpdatesFilter {\n  println(it)\n}\n</code></pre>"},{"location":"tgbotapi/updates/updates-filters.html#flowsupdatesfilter","title":"FlowsUpdatesFilter","text":"<p>A little bit more modern way is to use <code>FlowsUpdatesFilter</code>. It is very powerfull API of Kotlin Coroutines Flows, built-in support of additional extensions for <code>FlowsUpdatesFilter</code> and <code>Flow&lt;...&gt;</code> receivers and opportunity to split one filter for as much receivers as you want. Filter creating example:</p> <pre><code>val scope = CoroutineScope(Dispatchers.Default)\nflowsUpdatesFilter {\n  messageFlow.onEach {\n    println(it)\n  }.launchIn(scope)\n}\n</code></pre>"},{"location":"tgbotapi/updates/updates-filters.html#combining-of-flows","title":"Combining of flows","text":"<p>In cases you need not separate logic for handling of messages from channels and chats there are three ways to combine different flows into one:</p> <ul> <li>Standard <code>plus</code> operation and handling of different flows:</li> </ul> <pre><code>flowsUpdatesFilter {\n  (messageFlow + channelPostFlow).onEach {\n    println(it) // will be printed each message update from channels and chats both\n  }.launchIn(scope)\n}\n</code></pre> <ul> <li>TelegramBotAPI library support function <code>aggregateFlows</code>:</li> </ul> <pre><code>flowsUpdatesFilter {\n  aggregateFlows(\n    scope,\n    messageFlow,\n    channelPostFlow\n  ).onEach {\n    println(it) // will be printed each message update from channels and chats both\n  }.launchIn(scope)\n}\n</code></pre> <ul> <li><code>FlowsUpdatesFilter</code> extensions:</li> </ul> <pre><code>flowsUpdatesFilter {\n  allSentMessagesFlow.onEach {\n    println(it) // will be printed each message update from channels and chats both\n  }.launchIn(scope)\n}\n</code></pre>"},{"location":"tgbotapi/updates/updates-filters.html#types-filtering","title":"Types filtering","text":"<p><code>FlowsUpdatesFilter</code> have a lot of extensions for messages types filtering:</p> <pre><code>flowsUpdatesFilter {\n  textMessages(scope).onEach {\n    println(it) // will be printed each message from channels and chats both with content only `TextContent`\n  }.launchIn(scope)\n}\n</code></pre> <p>The same things were created for media groups:</p> <pre><code>flowsUpdatesFilter {\n  mediaGroupMessages(scope).onEach {\n    println(it) // will be printed each media group messages list from both channels and chats without filtering of content\n  }.launchIn(scope)\n\n  mediaGroupPhotosMessages(scope).onEach {\n    println(it) // will be printed each media group messages list from both channels and chats with PhotoContent only\n  }.launchIn(scope)\n\n  mediaGroupVideosMessages(scope).onEach {\n    println(it) // will be printed each media group messages list from both channels and chats with VideoContent only\n  }.launchIn(scope)\n}\n</code></pre> <p>Besides, there is an opportunity to avoid separation on media groups and common messages and receive photos and videos content in one flow:</p> <pre><code>flowsUpdatesFilter {\n  sentMessagesWithMediaGroups(scope).onEach {\n    println(it) // will be printed each message including each separated media group message from both channels and chats without filtering of content\n  }.launchIn(scope)\n\n  photoMessagesWithMediaGroups(scope).onEach {\n    println(it) // will be printed each message including each separated media group message from both channels and chats with PhotoContent only\n  }.launchIn(scope)\n\n  videoMessagesWithMediaGroups(scope).onEach {\n    println(it) // will be printed each message including each separated media group message from both channels and chats with VideoContent only\n  }.launchIn(scope)\n}\n</code></pre>"},{"location":"tgbotapi/updates/updates-filters.html#see-also","title":"See also","text":"<ul> <li>Long polling</li> <li>Webhooks</li> </ul>"},{"location":"tgbotapi/updates/webhooks.html","title":"Webhooks","text":"<p>In telegram bot API there is an opportunity to get updates via webhooks. In this case you will be able to retrieve updates without making additional requests. Most of currently available methods for webhooks are working on ktor server for JVM. Currently, next ways are available for using for webhooks:</p> <ul> <li><code>Route#includeWebhookHandlingInRoute</code> for ktor server</li> <li><code>Route#includeWebhookHandlingInRouteWithFlows</code> </li> <li><code>startListenWebhooks</code></li> <li><code>RequestsExecutor#setWebhookInfoAndStartListenWebhooks</code></li> </ul>"},{"location":"tgbotapi/updates/webhooks.html#setwebhookinfoandstartlistenwebhooks","title":"<code>setWebhookInfoAndStartListenWebhooks</code>","text":"<p>It is the most common way to set updates webhooks and start listening of them. Example:</p> <pre><code>val bot = telegramBot(TOKEN)\n\nval filter = flowsUpdatesFilter {\n  // ...\n}\n\nbot.setWebhookInfoAndStartListenWebhooks(\n  8080, // listening port. It is required for cases when your server hidden by some proxy or other system like Heroku\n  CIO, // default ktor server engine. It is recommended to replace it with something like `Netty`. More info about engines here: https://ktor.io/servers/configuration.html\n  SetWebhook(\n    \"address.com/webhook_route\",\n    File(\"/path/to/certificate\").toInputFile(), // certificate file. More info here: https://core.telegram.org/bots/webhooks#a-certificate-where-do-i-get-one-and-how\n    40, // max allowed updates, by default is null\n    filter.allowedUpdates\n  ),\n  {\n    it.printStackTrace() // optional handling of exceptions\n  },\n  \"0.0.0.0\", // listening host which will be used to bind by server\n  \"subroute\", // Optional subroute, if null - will listen root of address\n  WebhookPrivateKeyConfig( // optional config of private key. It will be installed in server to use TLS with custom certificate. More info here: https://core.telegram.org/bots/webhooks#a-certificate-where-do-i-get-one-and-how\n    \"/path/to/keystore.jks\",\n    \"KeystorePassword\",\n    \"Keystore key alias name\",\n    \"KeystoreAliasPassword\"\n  ),\n  scope, // Kotlin coroutine scope for internal transforming of media groups\n  filter.asUpdateReceiver\n)\n</code></pre> <p>If you will use previous example, ktor server will bind and listen url <code>0.0.0.0:8080/subroute</code> and telegram will send requests to address <code>address.com/webhook_route</code> with custom certificate. Alternative variant will use the other <code>SetWebhook</code> request variant:</p> <pre><code>SetWebhook(\n  \"address.com/webhook_route\",\n  \"some_file_bot_id\".toInputFile(),\n  40, // max allowed updates, by default is null\n  filter.allowedUpdates\n)\n</code></pre> <p>As a result, request <code>SetWebhook</code> will be executed and after this server will start its working and handling of updates.</p>"},{"location":"tgbotapi/updates/webhooks.html#startlistenwebhooks","title":"<code>startListenWebhooks</code>","text":"<p>This function is working almost exactly like previous example, but this one will not set up webhook info in telegram:</p> <pre><code>val filter = flowsUpdatesFilter {\n  // ...\n}\n\nstartListenWebhooks(\n  8080, // listening port. It is required for cases when your server hidden by some proxy or other system like Heroku\n  CIO, // default ktor server engine. It is recommended to replace it with something like `Netty`. More info about engines here: https://ktor.io/servers/configuration.html\n  {\n    it.printStackTrace() // optional handling of exceptions\n  },\n  \"0.0.0.0\", // listening host which will be used to bind by server\n  \"subroute\", // Optional subroute, if null - will listen root of address\n  WebhookPrivateKeyConfig( // optional config of private key. It will be installed in server to use TLS with custom certificate. More info here: https://core.telegram.org/bots/webhooks#a-certificate-where-do-i-get-one-and-how\n    \"/path/to/keystore.jks\",\n    \"KeystorePassword\",\n    \"Keystore key alias name\",\n    \"KeystoreAliasPassword\"\n  ),\n  scope, // Kotlin coroutine scope for internal transforming of media groups\n  filter.asUpdateReceiver\n)\n</code></pre> <p>The result will be the same as in previous example: server will start its working and handling of updates on <code>0.0.0.0:8080/subroute</code>. The difference here is that in case if this bot must not answer or send some requiests - it will not be necessary to create bot for receiving of updates.</p>"},{"location":"tgbotapi/updates/webhooks.html#extensions-includewebhookhandlinginroute-and-includewebhookhandlinginroutewithflows","title":"Extensions <code>includeWebhookHandlingInRoute</code> and <code>includeWebhookHandlingInRouteWithFlows</code>","text":"<p>For these extensions you will need to start your server manualy. In common case it will look like:</p> <pre><code>val scope = CoroutineScope(Dispatchers.Default)\n\nval filter = flowsUpdatesFilter {\n  // ...\n}\n\nval environment = applicationEngineEnvironment {\n  module {\n    routing {\n      includeWebhookHandlingInRoute(\n        scope,\n        {\n          it.printStackTrace()\n        },\n        filter.asUpdateReceiver\n      )\n    }\n  }\n  connector {\n    host = \"0.0.0.0\"\n    port = 8080\n  }\n}\n\nembeddedServer(CIO, environment).start(true) // will start server and wait its stoping\n</code></pre> <p>In the example above server will started and binded for listening on <code>0.0.0.0:8080</code>.</p>"},{"location":"tgbotapi/updates/webhooks.html#see-also","title":"See also","text":"<ul> <li>Updates filters</li> <li>Long polling</li> </ul>"}]}