photos.uploadProfilePhoto

Updates current user profile photo.

Example

Javascript

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.photos.uploadProfilePhoto({
        file: new Api.InputFile({...}),
        video: new Api.InputFile({...}),
        videoStartTs: 8374801,
        }));
    console.log(result); // prints the result
})();

TypeScript

import {Api, TelegramClient} from 'telegram';
import {StringSession} from 'telegram/sessions';

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

(async function run() {
    const result: Api.photos.Photo = await client.invoke(new Api.photos.uploadProfilePhoto({
        file: new Api.InputFile({...}),
        video: new Api.InputFile({...}),
        videoStartTs: 8374801,
        }));
    console.log(result); // prints the result
})();

TL schema

photos.photo#20212ca8 photo:Photo users:Vector<User> = photos.Photo;
---functions---
photos.uploadProfilePhoto#89f30f69 flags:# file:flags.0?InputFile video:flags.1?InputFile video_start_ts:flags.2?double = photos.Photo;

Parameters

Name	Type	Description
flags	#	Flags, see TL conditional fields
file	flags.0?InputFile	File saved in parts by means of upload.saveFilePart method
video	flags.1?InputFile	Animated profile picture video
video_start_ts	flags.2?double	Floating point UNIX timestamp in seconds, indicating the frame of the video that should be used as static preview.

Result

photos.Photo

Possible errors

Code	Type	Description
400	FILE_PARTS_INVALID	The number of file parts is invalid
400	IMAGE_PROCESS_FAILED	Failure while processing image
400	PHOTO_CROP_FILE_MISSING	Photo crop file missing
400	PHOTO_CROP_SIZE_SMALL	Photo is too small
400	PHOTO_EXT_INVALID	The extension of the photo is invalid
400	PHOTO_FILE_MISSING	Profile photo file missing
400	VIDEO_FILE_INVALID	The specified video file is invalid

Can bots use this methd ?

yes

Related pages

upload.saveFilePart

Saves a part of file for futher sending to one of the methods.

Uploading and Downloading Files

How to transfer large data batches correctly.