telegram.InlineQuery
- class telegram.InlineQuery(id, from_user, query, offset, location=None, bot=None, chat_type=None, **_kwargs)
Bases:
TelegramObject
This object represents an incoming inline query. When the user sends an empty query, your bot could return some default or trending results.
Objects of this class are comparable in terms of equality. Two objects of this class are considered equal, if their
id
is equal.Note
In Python
from
is a reserved word, usefrom_user
instead.- Parameters:
id (
str
) – Unique identifier for this query.from_user (
telegram.User
) – Sender.query (
str
) – Text of the query (up to 256 characters).offset (
str
) – Offset of the results to be returned, can be controlled by the bot.chat_type (
str
, optional) –Type of the chat, from which the inline query was sent. Can be either
telegram.Chat.SENDER
for a private chat with the inline query sender,telegram.Chat.PRIVATE
,telegram.Chat.GROUP
,telegram.Chat.SUPERGROUP
ortelegram.Chat.CHANNEL
. The chat type should be always known for requests sent from official clients and most third-party clients, unless the request was sent from a secret chat.New in version 13.5.
location (
telegram.Location
, optional) – Sender location, only for bots that request user location.bot (
telegram.Bot
, optional) – The Bot to use for instance methods.**kwargs (
dict
) – Arbitrary keyword arguments.
- id
Unique identifier for this query.
- Type:
str
- from_user
Sender.
- Type:
- query
Text of the query (up to 256 characters).
- Type:
str
- offset
Offset of the results to be returned, can be controlled by the bot.
- Type:
str
- location
Optional. Sender location, only for bots that request user location.
- Type:
- chat_type
Type of the chat, from which the inline query was sent.
New in version 13.5.
- Type:
str
, optional
- MAX_RESULTS = 50
telegram.constants.MAX_INLINE_QUERY_RESULTS
New in version 13.2.
- answer(results, cache_time=300, is_personal=None, next_offset=None, switch_pm_text=None, switch_pm_parameter=None, timeout=None, current_offset=None, api_kwargs=None, auto_pagination=False)
Shortcut for:
bot.answer_inline_query(update.inline_query.id, *args, current_offset=self.offset if auto_pagination else None, **kwargs)
For the documentation of the arguments, please see
telegram.Bot.answer_inline_query()
.- Parameters:
auto_pagination (
bool
, optional) – If set toTrue
,offset
will be passed ascurrent_offset
totelegram.Bot.answer_inline_query()
. Defaults toFalse
.- Raises:
TypeError – If both
current_offset
andauto_pagination
are supplied.
- classmethod de_json(data, bot)