A media group is a Telegram message type that bundles multiple photos or videos into a single album, displayed inline as a swipeable gallery rather than as separate posts. Media groups use the sendMediaGroup Bot API method and share a single caption across all items. Channel operators use media groups to publish product showcases, event recaps, and tutorials without fragmenting related images into separate posts. Autogram supports scheduling and auto-publishing media groups as part of automation workflows.
Sending an album returns an array of messages, not one message. Between two and ten items go out together, each tagged with a shared group identifier that clients use to render them as a single gallery. The practical consequence is clear: an album occupies several message ids, so editing or deleting it afterwards means addressing every one of its items rather than one post.
Photos and videos can sit together in one album; documents and audio files can only be grouped with their own kind. Captions belong to the individual items rather than to the album as a whole, and a media caption is capped at 1024 characters after formatting is parsed — a quarter of what a plain text message allows. Copy written for a text post often will not fit.
The album send accepts no inline keyboard, so a call-to-action button cannot ride along with the gallery. Operators who need both usually publish the album and then a short follow-up message carrying the button, which appears as a separate post in the feed. That trade-off is worth weighing before choosing an album over a single captioned photo with a button attached.
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