Method: payments.convertStarGift

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Convert a received gift » into Telegram Stars: this will permanently destroy the gift, converting it into starGift.convert_stars Telegram Stars, added to the user’s balance.

Note that starGift.convert_stars will be less than the buying price (starGift.stars) of the gift if it was originally bought using Telegram Stars bought a long time ago.

Parameters:

Return type: Bool

Can users use this method: YES

Can bots use this method: NO

Can bots use this method over a business connection with the businessConnectionId flag: YES

MadelineProto Example (now async for huge speed and parallelism!):

if (!file_exists('madeline.php')) {
    copy('https://phar.madelineproto.xyz/madeline.php', 'madeline.php');
}
include 'madeline.php';

$MadelineProto = new \danog\MadelineProto\API('session.madeline');
$MadelineProto->start();

$Bool = $MadelineProto->payments->convertStarGift(stargift: $InputSavedStarGift, );