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I got a 400 error while sending a request from python to telegram.

Here is the code:

bot_message = message
bot_token = 'xxx'
bot_chatID = 'xxx'
send_text = 'https://api.telegram.org/bot' + bot_token + '/sendMessage?chat_id=' + bot_chatID + '&parse_mode=Markdown&text=' + bot_message
response = requests.get(send_text)

Here’s the message that caused error :

sharashahira 2021-01-25 10:37:50 @CIMB_Assists Mana ni kata sampai pkul 4;45pm. Sampai sekaranf error. Boikot cimb clicks app😒

It got "emote" , so I got 400 when send to telegram.

This is the error

{"ok":false,"error_code":400,"description":"Bad Request: can't parse entities: Can't find end of the entity starting at byte offset 17"}

2

Answers


  1. Can’t find end of the entity starting at byte offset 17"

    This error is caused by a MarkDown error caused by: @CIMB_Assists

    The _ starts an underline syntax, but is never closed. Telegram can’t send those messages.

    There are 2 ways to fix this;

    1. Remove the MarkDown, send the message as HTML:

      '&parse_mode=HTML&text=' + bot_message
      
    2. Remove the _ from the message

      sharashahira 2021-01-25 10:37:50 @CIMBAssists Mana ni kata sampai pkul 4;45pm. Sampai sekaranf error. Boikot cimb clicks app😒
      
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  2. You should add escaping to use markdown format with this character.

    The list of characters you must escape is ('_', '*', '[', ']', '(', ')', '~', '`', '>', '#', '+', '-', '=', '|', '{', '}', '.', '!')

    To add a specific for Telegram escaping you can just use PlainText from telegram-text:

    from telegram_text import PlainText
    
    element = PlainText("_text_to_escape_")
    escaped_text = element.to_markdown()
    escaped_text
    '\_text\_to\_escape\_'
    
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