CODEWITHSUNDEEP
phptelegram-bot
Vlmake
Vlmake

Reputation: 551

How to send Emoji with Telegram Bot API?

I need to send messages containing emoji with my Telegram Bot.

So I copy/paste emoji code :nine: for example, in my message text and send it to a user, BUT emoji didn`t work.

This is my sample code and function:

function tel_send($key, $t, $c)
{
    $ch = curl_init();
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, "https://api.telegram.org/bot" . $key . "/sendMessage");
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, true);
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, "cache=" . (time() / rand(1, time() - 100)) . "&text=" . $t . "&chat_id=" . $c);
    $ss = curl_exec($ch);
    curl_close($ch);
    return $ss;
}
tel_send($key, "My number - :nine:", $val['message']['chat']['id']);

So, my question is: How can I send emoji by Telegram bot?

Upvotes: 44

Views: 154588

Answers (15)

Muhammadyk
Muhammadyk

Reputation: 319

to get smileys and emojis.. you can always reference this emoji documentation for DEVs https://carpedm20.github.io/emoji/

Upvotes: 0

user3394055
user3394055

Reputation: 61

IMPORTANT THING:

No one said it.

You have to use double quote, not single ones. Code below will give you just text: \xF0\x9F\x98\x822021-11-21 09:54:25

define('TELEGRAM_TOKEN', '9999999999:FFFFFFFFFFFFraxb6jajm8cDlKPOH-FFFFFFF');

define('TELEGRAM_CHATID', '@my_bot');  

message_to_telegram('\xF0\x9F\x98\x82' . date('Y-m-d H:i:s'));

function message_to_telegram($text)
{
    $ch = curl_init();
    curl_setopt_array(
        $ch,
        array(
            CURLOPT_URL => 'https://api.telegram.org/bot' . TELEGRAM_TOKEN . '/sendMessage',
            CURLOPT_POST => TRUE,
            CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER => TRUE,
            CURLOPT_TIMEOUT => 10,
            CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS => array(
                'chat_id' => TELEGRAM_CHATID,
                'text' => $text,
            ),
        )
    );
    curl_exec($ch);
}

But with double quotes you'll get emoji:

message_to_telegram("\xF0\x9F\x98\x82" . date('Y-m-d H:i:s'));

Upvotes: 3

Syaifudin Zuhri
Syaifudin Zuhri

Reputation: 128

You need to json_decode unicode value first, try like this.

json_decode('"\ud83d\ude0a"')

Upvotes: 1

Mauvis Ledford
Mauvis Ledford

Reputation: 42354

Note that, at least with JavaScript/Node.js, you can just paste the emoticon's directly into the code and they translate find into the Telegram API. EG. 😎

Upvotes: 0

Ebrahim Bashirpour
Ebrahim Bashirpour

Reputation: 777

> PHP 7

You just to use the \u and the unicode literal like following:

😀

$emojie = "\u{1F600}";

Resource: https://stackoverflow.com/a/33548423/8760592

Upvotes: 5

Sully
Sully

Reputation: 417

You can just copy emojy from telegram and paste in text to send like 🏠

$bot_url    = "https://api.telegram.org/bot$apiToken/";
$url        = $bot_url . "sendPhoto?chat_id=@Your chanel user";

$post_fields = array(
    'chat_id'   => $chat_id,
    'caption'   => 'Test caption 🏠',
    'photo'     => new CURLFile(realpath("logo.jpg"))
);

$ch = curl_init(); 
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, array(
    "Content-Type:multipart/form-data"
));
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url); 
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1); 
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $post_fields); 
$output = curl_exec($ch);

another way you can use the name of shap ,for example for home you can use :house: example:

:phone:
:white_check_mark:
:factory:
:page_with_curl:

Upvotes: 7

MrG
MrG

Reputation: 382

Easiest way is to just copy and past the emoji you need in your code. But then you will have to make sure your source code files are stored UTF8

I just opened Telegram on my system and copied the ones I needed and never looked back :) Funny thing is that I do not have to work with constants, specific names or the unicode character value. I can directly see what emoji is used IN MY EDITOR.

$message = 'Pointing down: 👇';

If you process that into a message (example above is PHP, but I guess it will work in any programming language)

Upvotes: 1

Milad Rahimi
Milad Rahimi

Reputation: 3834

See emojis and their UTF-8 codes here: http://apps.timwhitlock.info/emoji/tables/unicode

Then you must convert UTF-8 codes to Telegram-ready response text with the following code:

<?php

function telegram_emoji($utf8emoji) {
    preg_replace_callback(
        '@\\\x([0-9a-fA-F]{2})@x',
        function ($captures) {
            return chr(hexdec($captures[1]));
        },
        $utf8emoji
    );

    return $utf8emoji;
}

$utf8emoji = '\xF0\x9F\x98\x81';

$telegramReadyResponse = 'Hi user ' . telegram_emoji($utf8emoji);

Upvotes: 10

WENPIN1
WENPIN1

Reputation: 31

Just another choice $curl .... -F text="&#x1F601" -F parse_mode=html .... "https://api.telegram.org/botTOKEN/sendMessage"


will enable parse_mode to html and use HTML hexadecimal (hex) reference(&#x1F601) for unicode U+1F601

Upvotes: 0

Entaah Laah
Entaah Laah

Reputation: 131

I am using this code at linux bash and curl command for grinning face 

curl -X POST "https://api.telegram.org/botTOKEN/sendMessage" -d "chat_id=ID&text=%F0%9F%98%80&parse_modwarninge=Markdown"

Upvotes: 5

Jeroen Peiffer
Jeroen Peiffer

Reputation: 11

I have been looking for an answer for this for a long time, but could not get it working. my scripting skills are poor and converting php answers to bash proved a challenge.

But, nonetheless I got it working with a most simple solution: I went to telegram desktop messenger, there i send the required emoji (🚌).

Than I made a variable: bus="🚌"

Now I can use the variable in the curl as: "text=some text $bus"

This works great using bash on linux, I suppose it could also work in php.

Upvotes: 1

Dima Stefantsov
Dima Stefantsov

Reputation: 973

Real solution is to use https://github.com/spatie/emoji (composer require spatie/emoji) for Emoji codes. Now your code will look like

Emoji::CHARACTER_EYES

or

Emoji::eyes()

This is something you could really use. Unlike writing all the codes manually and having hard time understanding what is it on the first glance.

Upvotes: 4

Green
Green

Reputation: 30805

An addition to this answer https://stackoverflow.com/a/31431810/1114926.

The link that Mustafa provided doesn't represent all emoji. This source is better http://emojipedia.org/ ☝️. It has variations of emoji in addition to the major sign.

Upvotes: 1

Mustafa
Mustafa

Reputation: 590

you need to specify emoji's unicode value.

check here

these are returned by a function as emoji value like u'\U000026C4' which is snowman. although it is in python, you can apply it for php.

Upvotes: 22

user2984747
user2984747

Reputation:

I faced the same issue a few days ago.. The solution is to use Bytes (UTF-8) notation from this table: http://apps.timwhitlock.info/emoji/tables/unicode

examples:

😁 \xF0\x9F\x98\x81 GRINNING FACE WITH SMILING EYES

😉 \xF0\x9F\x98\x89 WINKING FACE

Upvotes: 64

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