poll

Poll

poll#58747131 id:long flags:# closed:flags.0?true public_voters:flags.1?true multiple_choice:flags.2?true quiz:flags.3?true question:TextWithEntities answers:Vector<PollAnswer> close_period:flags.4?int close_date:flags.5?int = Poll;

Parameters

Name Type Description
id long ID of the poll
flags # Flags, see TL conditional fields
closed flags.0?true Whether the poll is closed and doesn't accept any more answers
public_voters flags.1?true Whether cast votes are publicly visible to all users (non-anonymous poll)
multiple_choice flags.2?true Whether multiple options can be chosen as answer
quiz flags.3?true Whether this is a quiz (with wrong and correct answers, results shown in the return type)
open_answers flags.6?true Whether users can add new answer options after the poll is created, see polls »
revoting_disabled flags.7?true If set, users cannot change their vote after casting it
shuffle_answers flags.8?true Whether answer options are displayed in a randomized order to each user
hide_results_until_close flags.9?true Whether vote results are hidden from all participants until the poll is closed
creator flags.10?true Whether the current user created this poll
subscribers_only flags.11?true Whether only subscribers can vote: a user may vote only if they are currently a member of the channel/supergroup and joined it at least 24 hours before the poll was posted, see subscriber-only polls ».
question TextWithEntities The question of the poll (only Premium users can use custom emoji entities here).
answers Vector<PollAnswer> The possible answers (2-poll_answers_max), vote using messages.sendVote.
close_period flags.4?int Amount of time in seconds the poll will be active after creation, 5-600. Can't be used together with close_date.
close_date flags.5?int Point in time (Unix timestamp) when the poll will be automatically closed. Must be at least 5 and no more than 600 seconds in the future; can't be used together with close_period.
countries_iso2 flags.12?Vector<string> If set, only users from the specified ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country codes may vote, see country-restricted polls »; a user may vote only if the phone_country_iso2 » configuration parameter is contained in this list.
hash long Hash for use with messages.getPollResults

Type

Poll

Related pages

Poll

Telegram allows sending polls and quizzes, that can be voted on by thousands, if not millions of users in chats and channels.

Telegram Premium

Telegram Premium is an optional subscription service that unlocks additional exclusive client-side and API-side features, while helping support the development of the app.

Custom emojis

Telegram allows including animated and static custom emojis inside of messages.

Client configuration

The MTProto API has multiple configuration parameters that can be fetched with the appropriate methods.

messages.sendVote

Vote in a poll

Starting from layer 159, the vote will be sent from the peer specified using messages.saveDefaultSendAs.

messages.getPollResults

Get poll results