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Can not get a user's phone number with KeyboardButton – Telegram API

I have a simple telegram bot with a KeyboardButton that appears when a user presses on “Start”. After the user presses on KeyboardButton a window appears and in that window the user presses a button “Share phone number”. I need to get this phone number but a “Contact” object in response is empty. The module that I use – pyTelegramBotApi.

import telebot
from telebot import types

bot = telebot.TeleBot(token)

@bot.message_handler(commands=['start'])
def register(message):
    keyboard = types.ReplyKeyboardMarkup(one_time_keyboard=True)
    reg_button = types.KeyboardButton(text="Share your phone number", request_contact=True)
    keyboard.add(reg_button)
    response = bot.send_message(message.chat.id, 
                                "You should share your phone number", 
                                reply_markup=keyboard)
    print(response.contact)  # response.contact = None here

if __name__ == '__main__':
    bot.polling(none_stop=True)

Is that a right way to get a phone number from user? If no, how can i get it?

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  1. 0

    No it’s wrong. You should define a new handler to handle the contact.

    dispatcher.add_handler(MessageHandler(Filters.contact, get_contact))

    then you should define your get_contact function:

    def get_contact(bot, update):
   chat_id = update.message.chat_id
   phone_number = update.message.contact.phone_number
   other stuffs...
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  2. 0

    You should define new handler for contact

    @bot.message_handler(content_types=['contact'])
def contact_handler(message):
    print(message.contact.phone_number)
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  3. 0 
    def get_contact(message):
    print(message.contact.phone_number)

    You should use handler with filter.
    It is not text it is contact.

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