How to send an Embedded Image along with text in a Message via Telegram Bot API

Question

Using Telegram Bot API,

I'm aware that it is possible to send an image via https://core.telegram.org/bots/api#sendphoto

However, how can I embed a remote image into a formatted message?

The message I am looking to send, can be compared to a news article with a title in bold, an image, and a longer text with links. I figured out how to create bold text and links with markdown, but I'm failing at inserting images. How can we do that?

Answer 1

you must set ParseMode in HTML and set your Image Url in A tag like this:

<a href="' + image + '">&#8205;</a>

‍ -> never show in message

Answer 2

You can use zero-width space trick. Works for both Markdown and HTML parse mode.

Markdown:

$data = [
    'chat_id'    => $chat_id,
    'parse_mode' => 'markdown',
    'text' => "[​​​​​​​​​​​](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/02/Stack_Overflow_logo.svg/200px-Stack_Overflow_logo.svg.png) Some text here.",
];

Result:

Note: The zero-width space is in-between the brackets "[​​​​​​​​​​​]".