I’m trying to build a telegram bot on replit that will fetch the reaction count on the messages of the group (to later do a ranking of the 10 messages with the most reactions on them), but i can’t find a library that has something like reactionCount inside it.
I have all my code ready except this, I tried with telethon and python-telegram-bot, but I can’t find how to get the reaction count.
So my question is, which telegram library for python, is supporting reactionCount or something similar ?
If someone has a solution for this, I’d be glad. Thank you.
(and to clarify again so no-one closes my question for nothing again, I don’t want people to give me code, or I don’t have a problem in my code, my code is ready to work I just need a library that will fit my needs)
I tried using telethon and python-telegram-bot, but I can’t find something related to "reaction count" inside the documentations.
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No python library can support reading message reactions via a Telegram bot since the Telegram Bot API does not support this functionality.
Userbots can do that and you can use
telethonto code a userbot. Userbots do not use the Bot API.Take a look at https://core.telegram.org/method/messages.getMessageReactionsList, it looks like it is indeed possible to get a list of reactions when given a single message ID.