Photos and albums

Bloggram copies photos to its own storage and serves them from your blog.

A single photo

A photo with a caption becomes a post. The photo sits at the top of the page and the caption is the text. The first line of the caption is the title, as for any other post.

A photo with no caption has no text to take a title from. Its title is "Post from" and the date. On the blog's front page, a post like that shows the photo next to its title, while posts with text show the title and a short excerpt and no picture.

Albums

Several photos sent together in one Telegram album make one post. The photos appear in the order you sent them. The caption of the album, wherever Telegram attaches it, is the text of the post. The post address uses the lowest message number of the album.

Sizes

For photos you publish after connecting the bot, Bloggram stores up to three sizes, 320, 800 and 1280 pixels wide. Each browser picks the one that fits its screen, so a phone downloads a small file. If Telegram has no size that large, Bloggram keeps the largest one it has.

Photos imported from the history of a public channel are stored in the single size that Telegram's public preview offers.

The post title is used as the image description. The first photo of a post is also the preview image when someone shares the link, and it is included in the RSS feed.

Size limit

Bloggram downloads files up to 20 MB, which is the limit of the Telegram Bot API. A photo above that is left out and the rest of the post is published.

Photos sent as files

Telegram treats a picture sent as a file as a document. Documents stay on Telegram, like video and audio. If you want a picture on your blog, send it as a photo. See What stays on Telegram.

When a post is deleted

Deleting a post removes its photos from Bloggram's storage. Deleting the blog removes all of them.