promoteChatMember
Promote or demote a user in a Telegram supergroup or channel by granting or revoking administrator rights. Set permissions to false to demote, returns true on success.
Instructions
Promote or demote a user in a supergroup or channel. The bot must be an administrator with the appropriate rights. Pass False for all boolean parameters to demote a user. Returns True on success.
Input Schema
| Name | Required | Description | Default |
|---|---|---|---|
| chat_id | Yes | Unique identifier for the target chat or username of the target channel (in the format @channelusername) | |
| user_id | Yes | Unique identifier of the target user | |
| is_anonymous | No | Pass True if the administrator's presence in the chat is hidden | |
| can_change_info | No | Pass True if the administrator can change chat title, photo and other settings | |
| can_manage_chat | No | Pass True if the administrator can access the chat event log, get boost list, see hidden supergroup and channel members, report spam messages, see anonymous administrators in supergroups and ignore slow mode. Implied by any other administrator privilege. | |
| can_edit_stories | No | Pass True if the administrator can edit stories posted by other users, post stories to the chat page, pin chat stories, and access the chat's story archive | |
| can_invite_users | No | Pass True if the administrator can invite new users to the chat | |
| can_pin_messages | No | Pass True if the administrator can pin messages (supergroups only) | |
| can_post_stories | No | Pass True if the administrator can post stories to the chat | |
| can_edit_messages | No | Pass True if the administrator can edit messages of other users and can pin messages (channels only) | |
| can_manage_topics | No | Pass True if the user is allowed to create, rename, close, and reopen forum topics (supergroups only) | |
| can_post_messages | No | Pass True if the administrator can post messages in the channel, or access channel statistics (channels only) | |
| can_delete_stories | No | Pass True if the administrator can delete stories posted by other users | |
| can_delete_messages | No | Pass True if the administrator can delete messages of other users | |
| can_promote_members | No | Pass True if the administrator can add new administrators with a subset of their own privileges or demote administrators that they have promoted, directly or indirectly | |
| can_restrict_members | No | Pass True if the administrator can restrict, ban or unban chat members, or access supergroup statistics | |
| can_manage_video_chats | No | Pass True if the administrator can manage video chats |