updateMessage

Use this message to update an existing message. On success, the sent message is returned with the status 'updated'.

Field	Type	Required	Description
method	String	Yes	"updateMessage"
message_id	String	Yes	Old message ID that you want to edit it
reference	Long	Yes	Unique local identifier for the target Chat or User.
text	String	Conditional	Only use it if you want to update a message with the type of text.
caption	String	Conditional	Only use it if you want to update a message with a type other than text, e.g., photo, video, audio, etc.
chat_id	String	Yes	Unique identifier for the target Chat or User_id.
menu_ref	String	Optional	Menu reference for an existing predefined menu: the menu will be displayed as an inline menu associated with the message. To hide the inline menu from the message, set menu_ref to an empty string.
inline_menu	Array of Menu	Optional	Inline menu object to hold menus: The outdated menu will take the place of the previous one. If both inline_menu and menu_ref are defined, the priority goes to inline_menu unless menu_ref is set to an empty string.

Requests

json
{
  "method": "updateMessage",    
  "message_id": "i1_iWBJSzaA129813",
  "text": "new edits",
  "caption": "Sample Caption",  
  "to_user_id": "90089668723575679",      
  "chat_id": "9008966872357567"          
}

java

UpdateOutMessage updateOutMessage = new UpdateOutMessage();
updateOutMessage.setMessageId("i1_iWBJSzaA129813");
updateOutMessage.setText("new edits");
updateOutMessage.setMenuRef("myMenuRef");
api.send(updateOutMessage);

javascript

const newMsg = new UpdateOutMessage();
newMsg.message_id = incomingMsg.message_id;
newMsg.text = "new edits";
newMsg.reference = incomingMsg.reference;
newMsg.to_user_id = incomingMsg.from.id;
newMsg.chat_id = incomingMsg.chat.id;
api.send(JSON.stringify(newMsg));

python

newMsg = UpdateOutMessage()
newMsg.chat_id="chatId"
newMsg.text="new message"
newMsg.message_id="messageId"
napi.send(newMsg)

Response

json
{
    "method": "message",
    "message": {
        "date": 1600168078602,
        "reference": 2097,
        "chat": {
            "name": "Alice Park",
            "id": "90089668723575679",
            "terminal": "Mobile",
            "type": "Contact",
            "version": "('0HNt','1QBk','2c2H','31RN')"
        },
        "sent_to": {
            "id": "90091903321704167"
        },
        "message_id": "i1_CD11KwDr126551",
        "style": 6,
        "from": {
            "name": "Alice Park",
            "id": "90089668723575679",
            "terminal": "Mobile",
            "type": "Contact",
            "version": "('0HNt','1QBk','2c2H','31RN')"
        },
        "text": "Hello",
        "type": "text"
    }
}