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title: sendBotStartMessage
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description: Invites bot to a chat (if it is not in the chat) and send /start to it. Bot can't be invited to a private chat other than chat with the bot. Bots can't be invited to broadcast channel chats and secret chats. Returns sent message
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## Method: sendBotStartMessage
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YOU CANNOT USE THIS METHOD IN MADELINEPROTO
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Invites bot to a chat (if it is not in the chat) and send /start to it. Bot can't be invited to a private chat other than chat with the bot. Bots can't be invited to broadcast channel chats and secret chats. Returns sent message
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Documentation rework (#349)
* Documentation rework
* Apply fixes from StyleCI
* Documentation fixes
* Login as bot through web/cli API, allow using invite links in joinChannel, full invite links in importChatInvite and checkChatInvite, non-invite links in importChatInvite
* Apply fixes from StyleCI
* Logging fixes
* Build docs
* Add methods to modify start template, bugfix to logging and keyboard conversion
* Add TL documentator
* Document MTProto methods
* Documenting methods...
* 7% documented
* Bugfixes
* Update docs
* Update docs
* Simplify file management
* Implement automatic object conversion for media, and more awesome stuff
* Implement automatic object conversion for media, and more awesome stuff
* Implement event update handler and file upload/download callback
* Auto-detect mime type, duration, width and height of media
* Update docs
* Document new file functions
* Fix links
* Fix links
* Update bot.php to use event loop
* Implement webhook update handler and forking in main loop
* Build docs
* Better docs
* Fixes to secret chats
* Almost finished updating docs
* Bugfixes, implemented infinite loop for loop() method, almost finished docs
* Finish writing docs
* Add automatic documentation builder script
* Finished writing docs
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### Parameters:
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| Name | Type | Required | Description |
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|----------|---------------|----------|-------------|
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|bot\_user\_id|[CLICK ME int](../types/int.md) | Yes|Identifier of the bot|
|chat\_id|[CLICK ME int53](../types/int53.md) | Yes|Identifier of the chat|
|parameter|[CLICK ME string](../types/string.md) | Yes|Hidden parameter sent to bot for deep linking (https: api.telegram.org/bots#deep-linking)|
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### Return type: [Message](../types/Message.md)
