POST /editMessageText – Photon Telegram Bot API

Telegram Bot API

Changed on Jun 14, 2026

Use this method to edit text, rich and game messages. On success, if the edited message is not an inline message, the edited Message is returned, otherwise True is returned. Note that business messages that were not sent by the bot and do not contain an inline keyboard can only be edited within 48 hours from the time they were sent.

post/editMessageText

Request

Base URL: https://api.telegram.org/bot<bot_token>
URL: https://api.telegram.org/bot<bot_token>/editMessageText
Auth: none declared

Request body

business_connection_idstring

Unique identifier of the business connection on behalf of which the message to be edited was sent

message_idinteger

Required if inline_message_id is not specified. Identifier of the message to edit.

inline_message_idstring

Required if chat_id and message_id are not specified. Identifier of the inline message.

textstring

New text of the message, 1-4096 characters after entity parsing; required if rich_message isn't specified

parse_modestring

Mode for parsing entities in the message text. See formatting options for more details.

Response

Telegram API response

oktrue required

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Operation history