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Reputation: 3648

How can Telegram Bot get the message text of if you have the message ID?

So the thought is that a user A replies to a post in a chat from user B using a command /command. How can we get the contents of the message (of user B)?

Like, we get an Update update and I can do

String messageText = update.getMessage().getText(); // what user A sent aka "\command" string
long messageId = update.getMessage().getMessageId();

But what commands do I use to get the message of user B which is technically inside update, right?

Upvotes: 4

Views: 6739

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druskacik
druskacik

Reputation: 2497

As per Telegram docs, Message object received in an Update will contain reply_to_message field if the message was sent as a reply to a previous message. The reply_to_message is of type Message as well, so you can get its text and ID the usual way (via getText and getMessageID).

I am not sure how this would be done in java (I guess by simple getReplyToMessage), this is how I would handle it in javascript.

const update = req.body;
const message = update.message || update.edited_message;

if (message.reply_to_message) {
    // this means message was a reply to a previous message
    const previousMessageID = message.reply_to_message.message_id;
    const previousMessageText = message.reply_to_message.text;
    ...
}

Upvotes: 1

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