Send Chat Action

Send a chat action to a Telegram chat to indicate what the bot is doing.

The Send Telegram Chat Action action allows you to broadcast a chat action to a specified Telegram chat. This is used to indicate that your bot is performing an action, such as typing, uploading a photo, or recording a video.

This action is useful for improving the user experience of your bot by providing feedback to the user about what the bot is doing.

Configuration

Setting	Type	Description
Chat ID	string	The unique identifier for the target chat, or the username of the target channel (e.g., @channelusername).
Action	string	The type of action to broadcast. Choose from: typing, upload_photo, record_video, upload_video, record_voice, upload_voice, upload_document, choose_sticker, find_location, record_video_note, or upload_video_note.

Input

• chat_id (string): The target chat's identifier.

• action (string): The action to broadcast.

Output

• success (boolean): Indicates whether the chat action was sent successfully.

• error (string, optional): An error message, if the action was not sent successfully.

Example

graph TD
    A[Start] --> B{Send Telegram Chat Action};
    B -- "Chat ID: @mychannel, Action: typing" --> C{...};
    C --> D[Send Telegram Message];

In this example, the action sends a typing action to the Telegram channel @mychannel before sending a message. This lets the user know that the bot is preparing a response.