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How to send Emoji with Telegram Bot API? – Telegram API

I need to send messages containing emoji with my Telegram Bot.

So I copy/paste emoji code :nine: for example, in my message text and send it to a user, BUT emoji didn`t work.

This is my sample code and function:

function tel_send($key, $t, $c)
{
    $ch = curl_init();
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, "https://api.telegram.org/bot" . $key . "/sendMessage");
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, true);
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, "cache=" . (time() / rand(1, time() - 100)) . "&text=" . $t . "&chat_id=" . $c);
    $ss = curl_exec($ch);
    curl_close($ch);
    return $ss;
}
tel_send($key, "My number - :nine:", $val['message']['chat']['id']);

So, my question is: How can I send emoji by Telegram bot?

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Answers


  1. 0

    you need to specify emoji’s unicode value.

    check here

    these are returned by a function as emoji value like u’U000026C4′ which is snowman. although it is in python, you can apply it for php.

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  2. 0

    I faced the same issue a few days ago..
    The solution is to use Bytes (UTF-8) notation from this table:
    http://apps.timwhitlock.info/emoji/tables/unicode

    examples:

    😁 xF0x9Fx98x81 GRINNING FACE WITH SMILING EYES

    😉 xF0x9Fx98x89 WINKING FACE

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  3. 0

    An addition to this answer https://stackoverflow.com/a/31431810/1114926.

    The link that Mustafa provided doesn’t represent all emoji. This source is better http://emojipedia.org/ ☝️. It has variations of emoji in addition to the major sign.

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  4. 0

    Real solution is to use https://github.com/spatie/emoji (composer require spatie/emoji) for Emoji codes. Now your code will look like

    Emoji::CHARACTER_EYES

    or

    Emoji::eyes()

    This is something you could really use. Unlike writing all the codes manually and having hard time understanding what is it on the first glance.

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  5. 0

    See emojis and their UTF-8 codes here:
    http://apps.timwhitlock.info/emoji/tables/unicode

    Then you must convert UTF-8 codes to Telegram-ready response text with the following code:

    <?php

function telegram_emoji($utf8emoji) {
    preg_replace_callback(
        '@\x([0-9a-fA-F]{2})@x',
        function ($captures) {
            return chr(hexdec($captures[1]));
        },
        $utf8emoji
    );

    return $utf8emoji;
}

$utf8emoji = 'xF0x9Fx98x81';

$telegramReadyResponse = 'Hi user ' . telegram_emoji($utf8emoji);
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  6. 0

    I have been looking for an answer for this for a long time, but could not get it working. my scripting skills are poor and converting php answers to bash proved a challenge.

    But, nonetheless I got it working with a most simple solution:
    I went to telegram desktop messenger, there i send the required emoji (🚌).

    Than I made a variable: bus=”🚌”

    Now I can use the variable in the curl as: “text=some text $bus”

    This works great using bash on linux, I suppose it could also work in php.

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  7. 0

    I am using this code at linux bash and curl command for grinning face 

    curl -X POST "https://api.telegram.org/botTOKEN/sendMessage" -d "chat_id=ID&text=%F0%9F%98%80&parse_modwarninge=Markdown"
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  8. 0

    Just another choice
    $curl …. -F text=”&#x1F601″ -F parse_mode=html …. “https://api.telegram.org/botTOKEN/sendMessage“

    will enable parse_mode to html and use HTML hexadecimal (hex) reference(&#x1F601) for unicode U+1F601

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  9. 0

    You can just copy emojy from telegram and paste in text to send like 🏠

    $bot_url    = "https://api.telegram.org/bot$apiToken/";
$url        = $bot_url . "sendPhoto?chat_id=@Your chanel user";

$post_fields = array(
    'chat_id'   => $chat_id,
    'caption'   => 'Test caption 🏠',
    'photo'     => new CURLFile(realpath("logo.jpg"))
);

$ch = curl_init(); 
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, array(
    "Content-Type:multipart/form-data"
));
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url); 
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1); 
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $post_fields); 
$output = curl_exec($ch);

    another way you can use the name of shap ,for example for home you can use :house:
    example:

    :phone:
:white_check_mark:
:factory:
:page_with_curl:
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  10. 0

    Easiest way is to just copy and past the emoji you need in your code.
    But then you will have to make sure your source code files are stored UTF8

    I just opened Telegram on my system and copied the ones I needed and never looked back 🙂 Funny thing is that I do not have to work with constants, specific names
    or the unicode character value. I can directly see what emoji is used IN MY EDITOR.

    $message = 'Pointing down: 👇';

    If you process that into a message (example above is PHP, but I guess it will work in any programming language)

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  11. 0

    > PHP 7

    You just to use the u and the unicode literal like following:

    😀

    $emojie = "u{1F600}";

    Resource: https://stackoverflow.com/a/33548423/8760592

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  12. 0

    Note that, at least with JavaScript/Node.js, you can just paste the emoticon’s directly into the code and they translate find into the Telegram API. EG. 😎

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  13. 0

    You need to json_decode unicode value first, try like this.

    json_decode('"ud83dude0a"')
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  14. 0

    IMPORTANT THING:

    No one said it.

    You have to use double quote, not single ones.
    Code below will give you just text: xF0x9Fx98x822021-11-21 09:54:25

    define('TELEGRAM_TOKEN', '9999999999:FFFFFFFFFFFFraxb6jajm8cDlKPOH-FFFFFFF');

define('TELEGRAM_CHATID', '@my_bot');  

message_to_telegram('xF0x9Fx98x82' . date('Y-m-d H:i:s'));

function message_to_telegram($text)
{
    $ch = curl_init();
    curl_setopt_array(
        $ch,
        array(
            CURLOPT_URL => 'https://api.telegram.org/bot' . TELEGRAM_TOKEN . '/sendMessage',
            CURLOPT_POST => TRUE,
            CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER => TRUE,
            CURLOPT_TIMEOUT => 10,
            CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS => array(
                'chat_id' => TELEGRAM_CHATID,
                'text' => $text,
            ),
        )
    );
    curl_exec($ch);
}

    But with double quotes you’ll get emoji:

    message_to_telegram("xF0x9Fx98x82" . date('Y-m-d H:i:s'));
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  15. 0

    to get smileys and emojis.. you can always reference this emoji documentation for DEVs
    https://carpedm20.github.io/emoji/

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