How do I get the user profile picture of someone using the Telegram bot chat API?

Question

I'm making a basic Control Panel for managing my Bot with PHP.

Basically I want to display the Profile picture / avatar of the user who is sending message to the bot.

However the user object has no photo_id, so is there way to get the user's avatar?

Moyer

Answer 1

You need to use getUserProfilePhotos method, and then getFile.

For example:

Prepositive

getFile requires a file_path argument that is not returned from getUserProfilePhotos. If I try to use the file_id as file_path ther I get a "NOT FOUND" error. – Florey

ok I fixed it!. You need to call getFile using file_id as argument , you will receive the file_path and then you can download the file using api.telegram.org/file/bot<token>/<file_path> – Florey