contacts.addContact

Add an existing telegram user as contact.

Example

const {Api, TelegramClient} = require('telegram');
const {StringSession} = require('telegram/sessions');

const session = new StringSession('');
const client = new TelegramClient(session, apiId, apiHash, {});

(async function run() {
    const result = await client.invoke(new Api.contacts.addContact({
        addPhonePrivacyException: true,
        id: new Api.InputUser({...}),
        firstName: 'random string here',
        lastName: 'random string here',
        phone: 'random string here',
        }));
    console.log(result); // prints the result
})();

TL schema

updatesTooLong#e317af7e = Updates;
updateShortMessage#2296d2c8 flags:# out:flags.1?true mentioned:flags.4?true media_unread:flags.5?true silent:flags.13?true id:int user_id:int message:string pts:int pts_count:int date:int fwd_from:flags.2?MessageFwdHeader via_bot_id:flags.11?int reply_to:flags.3?MessageReplyHeader entities:flags.7?Vector<MessageEntity> = Updates;
updateShortChatMessage#402d5dbb flags:# out:flags.1?true mentioned:flags.4?true media_unread:flags.5?true silent:flags.13?true id:int from_id:int chat_id:int message:string pts:int pts_count:int date:int fwd_from:flags.2?MessageFwdHeader via_bot_id:flags.11?int reply_to:flags.3?MessageReplyHeader entities:flags.7?Vector<MessageEntity> = Updates;
updateShort#78d4dec1 update:Update date:int = Updates;
updatesCombined#725b04c3 updates:Vector<Update> users:Vector<User> chats:Vector<Chat> date:int seq_start:int seq:int = Updates;
updates#74ae4240 updates:Vector<Update> users:Vector<User> chats:Vector<Chat> date:int seq:int = Updates;
updateShortSentMessage#11f1331c flags:# out:flags.1?true id:int pts:int pts_count:int date:int media:flags.9?MessageMedia entities:flags.7?Vector<MessageEntity> = Updates;
---functions---
contacts.addContact#e8f463d0 flags:# add_phone_privacy_exception:flags.0?true id:InputUser first_name:string last_name:string phone:string = Updates;

Parameters

Name

Type

Description

flags

add_phone_privacy_exception

Allow the other user to see our phone number?

id

Telegram ID of the other user

first_name

First name

last_name

Last name

phone

User's phone number

Result

Updates

Possible errors

Code

Type

Description

400

CONTACT_ID_INVALID

The provided contact ID is invalid

400

CONTACT_NAME_EMPTY

Contact name empty

400

MSG_ID_INVALID

Invalid message ID provided

Can bots use this methd ?

yes

Imports contacts: saves a full list on the server, adds already registered contacts to the contact list, returns added contacts and their info.

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