telegram.bot (version 3.0.0)

sendChatAction: Send a chat action

Description

Use this method when you need to tell the user that something is happening on the bot's side. The status is set for 5 seconds or less (when a message arrives from your bot, Telegram clients clear its typing status).

Usage

sendChatAction(chat_id, action)

Arguments

chat_id

Unique identifier for the target chat or username of the target channel.

action

Type of action to broadcast. Choose one, depending on what the user is about to receive:

• typing for text messages

• upload_photo for photos

• upload_video for videos

• record_video for video recording

• upload_audio for audio files

• record_audio for audio file recording

• upload_document for general files

• find_location for location data

• upload_video_note for video notes

• record_video_note for video note recording

Details

You can also use it's snake_case equivalent send_chat_action.

Examples

if (FALSE) {
bot <- Bot(token = bot_token("RTelegramBot"))
chat_id <- user_id("Me")

bot$sendChatAction(
  chat_id = chat_id,
  action = "typing"
)
}