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How do I edit a sent message using Telegram's python bot API? – Telegram API

The documentation (https://core.telegram.org/bots/api#editmessagetext) says that I need to specify a message ID to edit, but I have no idea how to go about getting that message ID.

I’ve tried setting the ID as a variable:

import telepot
from telepot.namedTuple import InlineKeyboardMarkup, InlineKeyboardButton

messageEditID = bot.sendMessage(<location ID>, "Test", reply_markup=InlineKeyboardMarkup(inline_keyboard=[[InlineKeyboardButton(text="Testing", callback_data="test"]]))['message_id']

because the POST data for such a message would be

{"message_id":1140126,"chat":{"title":"<location name>","type":"supergroup","id":<location ID>},"date":1477960655,"from":{"username":"<bot username>","first_name":"<bot name>","id":<bot ID>},"text":"Test"}

and then calling it back based on the inline reply data

if msg['data'] == 'test':
    bot.editMessage(messageEditID, "Did it work?")

but it throws an Exception with the following message:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.5/dist-packages/telepot/__init__.py", line 738, in collector
    callback(item)
  File "testingStuff.py", line 150, in handle
    bot.editMessageText(messageEditID, "Does it work?")
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.5/dist-packages/telepot/__init__.py", line 592, in editMessageText
    return self._api_request('editMessageText', _rectify(p))
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.5/dist-packages/telepot/__init__.py", line 398, in _api_request
    return api.request((self._token, method, params, files), **kwargs)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.5/dist-packages/telepot/api.py", line 131, in request
    return _parse(r)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.5/dist-packages/telepot/api.py", line 126, in _parse
    raise exception.TelegramError(description, error_code, data)
telepot.exception.TelegramError: ('Bad Request: Wrong inline message identifier specified', 400, {'description': 'Bad Request: Wrong inline message identifier specified', 'ok': False, 'error_code': 400})

It threw the same error when I tried to edit the message based on the response,

if msg['data'] == 'test':
    msgID = msg['message']['message_id']
    bot.editMessageText(msgID, "OBOY")

since the data for an incoming Inline Reply is:

{'chat_instance': '112564336693044113',
 'data': 'test',
 'from': {'first_name': 'B(', 'id': <user ID>, 'username': '<username>'},
 'id': '852908411206280027',
 'message': {'chat': {'id': <chat ID>,
                      'title': 'We da bes',
                      'type': 'supergroup',
                      'username': '<chat username>'},
             'date': 1477961765,
             'from': {'first_name': 'Testing For James',
                      'id': <bot ID>,
                      'username': '<bot username>'},
             'message_id': 63180,
             'text': 'Test'}}

Can anyone help me figure out where I’ve gone wrong?

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  1. Chosen as BEST ANSWER
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    Update: Telepot has a message_identifier method that you can call by setting the sendMessage method to a variable and then calling the message_identifier message

    sent = bot.sendMessage(9999999, "Testing")
edited = telepot.message_identifier(sent)
bot.editMessageText(edited, "Tested")

  2. 0

    EDIT: In my answer, I am talking about python-telegram-bot and not about telepot so it’s not relevant, sorry.

    You can only use the edit function if you are using messages with buttons (it is called InlineKeyboard). Here is an example

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  3. 0

    Here is a simple example to edit a message without using telepot

    Demo: Before edit After edited

    from telegram.ext import Updater, CommandHandler, MessageHandler, CallbackContext
from telegram import Update
import logging

# Enable logging
logging.basicConfig(format='%(asctime)s - %(name)s - %(levelname)s - %(message)s',
                    level=logging.INFO)

logger = logging.getLogger(__name__)


def start(update: Update, context: CallbackContext) -> None:
    context.bot.send_message(chat_id=update.message.chat_id, text="hi")


def edit(update: Update, context: CallbackContext) -> None:
    context.bot.editMessageText(chat_id=update.message.chat_id,
                                message_id=update.message.reply_to_message.message_id, 
                                text="edited")


def main() -> None:
    updater = Updater("TOKEN")
    updater.dispatcher.add_handler(CommandHandler('start', start))
    updater.dispatcher.add_handler(CommandHandler('edit', edit))
    updater.start_polling()
    updater.idle()


if __name__ == '__main__':
    main()
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