Handling Inline Queries

Pre Requisite

Before continuing, please read this documentation from Telegram API on how inline mode works. You'll need to enable inline mode in order to receive the following update.

Receiving queries

In this case for this documentation, we have set the name of our bot to 'Teleflaxbot'. Whenever a user typed your bot's name in the text box and inline queries are enabled.

@Teleflaxbot Ducks wearing shorts

We receive ClientEvent#InlineQuery event whenever the user change their query or sends a new one.

Anwering The Query

After receiving the query, we need to answer it or send results.

To answer an inline query, we call the answer() method.

Example Results

Here is a list of example results, according to the api; you can send 100 results to a single query.

client.on(ClientEvent.InlineQuery, async (inlinequery) => {
    inlineQuery.answer(new InlineQueryResults(
            new QueryResult.Article({
                id: 'article-1',
                title: `Dynamic Article Result - ${inlineQuery.query}`,
                input_message_content: new InputMessage.Text({ message_text: `Your query is ${inlineQuery.query}` })
            }),

            new QueryResult.CachedPhoto({
                id: 'photo-result',
                title: 'Duck wearing short.',
                photo_file_id: new File('C:/../../media/duck_wearing_shorts.jpg')
            })
    ))
})

Relevant Links

• Documentation: InlineQuery.answer

• Namespace: QueryResult