Launch Parameters

Launch parameters are essential to the mini application lifecycle. To learn more about what launch parameters are and their importance, it is worth reading this article.

Retrieving Launch Parameters

This package allows a developer to extract launch parameters from the current environment using the retrieveLaunchParams function. It tries to retrieve them from all possible sources, and if it fails, an error will be thrown.

import { retrieveLaunchParams } from '@telegram-apps/bridge';

retrieveLaunchParams();
// {
//   tgWebAppBotInline: false,
//   tgWebAppData: {
//     user: { ... },
//     auth_date: Date(...),
//     query_id: ...,
//     hash: ...
//   },
//   ...
// };

To retrieve launch params deeply converted to camel case, pass the true value as the first argument:

retrieveLaunchParams(true);
// {
//   tgWebAppBotInline: false,
//   tgWebAppData: {
//     user: { ... },
//     authDate: Date(...),
//     queryId: ...
//     hash: ...
//   },
//   ...
// };

Raw

To retrieve launch parameters in their initial format—as query parameters, use the retrieveRawLaunchParams function:

import { retrieveRawLaunchParams } from '@telegram-apps/bridge';

retrieveRawLaunchParams();
// tgWebAppBotInline=0&tgWebAppData=%7B%22user%22%3A%7B%7D%2C%22auth_date%22%3A1787367222%2C%22query_id%22%3A%22abc%22%7D...&...

Retrieving Raw Init Data

It is a rather common case when the application requires extracting init data in its raw format to send to a backend server then. You must not use the retrieveLaunchParams function and then manipulate the tgWebAppData value, but utilize the retrieveRawInitData function designed for this purpose:

import { retrieveRawInitData } from '@telegram-apps/bridge';

retrieveRawInitData();
// '{"user":...,"auth_date":...,"query_id":...,...}'

The reason is using something else rather than this function, there is no guarantee that the init data will not become malformed. This is the only function which guarantees that the returned value will be returned unmodified, as it was passed by the Telegram client.