How to Collect Telegram Media Groups in Node.js
The article discusses how to effectively collect media groups from Telegram using Node.js. It highlights the challenges developers face when handling multiple updates for media albums and introduces a solution called telegram-media. This TypeScript library simplifies the process by aggregating related updates into a single normalized post.
- ▪Telegram sends multiple updates for media albums instead of a single post object.
- ▪Developers often face issues like duplicate records and race conditions when handling these updates manually.
- ▪The telegram-media library automates the aggregation of Telegram updates into a single post, supporting various media types.
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try { if(localStorage) { let currentUser = localStorage.getItem('current_user'); if (currentUser) { currentUser = JSON.parse(currentUser); if (currentUser.id === 3946720) { document.getElementById('article-show-container').classList.add('current-user-is-article-author'); } } } } catch (e) { console.error(e); } Nikita Zavada Posted on May 22 How to Collect Telegram Media Groups in Node.js #node #telegram #typescript #backend When working with the Telegram Bot API, it is easy to expect that an album with multiple photos will arrive as a single event. But Telegram works differently. If a user sends an album of 3 photos, your bot doesn't receive one "post" object.
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