title: How to receive images with the Telegram API?
body: <p>Is it possible to receive images (and store it on the server) which was sent by any user to the bot?</p>
  
  <p>If a image was sent, I receive this JSON post. This is a link to the Telegram Bot-API description. I don't know if it's possible to receive the whole image or not: <a href="https://core.telegram.org/bots/api#available-types" rel="noreferrer">https://core.telegram.org/bots/api#available-types</a></p>
  
  <pre><code>{"update_id":XXXXX,
  "message":{"message_id":2222,"from":{"id":XXXXX,"first_name":"Christoph","last_name":"XXXXX"},"chat":{"id":XXXXX,"first_name":"Christoph","last_name":"XXXXX"},"date":1435704055,"forward_from":{"id":XXXXX,"first_name":"Christoph","last_name":"XXXXX"},"forward_date":1435703471,"photo":[{"file_id":"AgADAgADmaoxG9KknwF4O978o3EMqb_EWSoABI5s-WWq46dqiR0AAgI","file_size":998,"width":51,"height":90},{"file_id":"AgADAgADmaoxG9KknwF4O978o3EMqb_EWSoABHax4HvxYqktiB0AAgI","file_size":9912,"width":180,"height":320},{"file_id":"AgADAgADmaoxG9KknwF4O978o3EMqb_EWSoABNzzDwp3sT2whx0AAgI","file_size":41020,"width":450,"height":800},{"file_id":"AgADAgADmaoxG9KknwF4O978o3EMqb_EWSoABE0Gg-AefJ7Yhh0AAgI","file_size":66058,"width":720,"height":1280}]}}
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