photos.updateProfilePhoto

Installs a previously uploaded photo as a profile photo.

API section: Working with user/channel profiles

photos.updateProfilePhoto#9e82039 flags:# fallback:flags.0?true bot:flags.1?InputUser id:InputPhoto = photos.Photo;

Parameters

NameTypeDescription
flags # Bit mask: a field written flags.N?T is present only when bit N is set.
fallback flags.0?true
bot flags.1?InputUser Bot.
id InputPhoto Identifier of the object — which object depends on the field's type.

Result

photos.Photo

Possible errors

Read out of the handler itself — this is what the server actually returns for this method.

CodeTypeWhat it means
400 BOT_INVALID The account given is not a bot, or the bot does not exist.
400 PHOTO_ID_INVALID No photo with this identifier exists.

Common to every call

CodeTypeWhat it means
401 AUTH_KEY_UNREGISTERED The server does not know this session: the key was revoked, expired, or the call was made before authorisation.
401 API_ID_INVALID This api_id was never issued or has been blocked. Keys come from my.ansible.su.
400 CONNECTION_LAYER_INVALID The client did not declare a layer, or declared one the server does not know.
420 FLOOD_WAIT_X Too often. Do not retry for X seconds — the number arrives in the error text.
500 INTERNAL A failure on our side. The request may be retried; if it keeps failing, it is a bug of ours.

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