Formatting

[Jexly0x]

Hello. I have a simple telegram bot. There is a group to which I write messages, and the bot takes these messages from the channel and copies them into itself. If I write a message to the channel in bold text or any formatting available, the bot repeats itself without formatting. How can I implement it?

[hypernova7]

Copy the entities, like this

bot.on('message', ctx => {
  const { entities, text } = ctx.message
  ctx.reply(text, {
    entities,
    parse_mode: 'Markdown'  // use the same parse_mode that you used in the original message
  })
})

[Jexly0x]

I use the channel_post action and send a message using bot.telegram.sendMessage(), how do I make the text bold in that case?

[MKRhere]

bot.on("channel_post", ctx => {
	if ("text" in ctx.channelPost) {
		// channelPost is a text message
		const { text, entities } = ctx.channelPost;
		bot.telegram.sendMessage(id, text, { entities });
	}
});

[Jexly0x]

Thank you. I'll test it soon and get back to you. Perhaps you know the answer to my other questions? :D

[BaalDev-Solutions]

Does it work? I am trying the same solutions in Telegraf version ^4.9.2 but it does not work. I am unable to get to use the entities when I copy a message

[BaalDev-Solutions]

I tried to copy and send the message to my bot with :
ctx.reply(text, { entities, parse_mode: "Markdown"}) ctx.reply(text, { entities, parse_mode: "HTML"}) ctx.replyWith Markdown(text, { entities }) ctx.replyWith Markdown V2(text, { entities })

Also I tried to send a message to a user with:
await temp_bot.telegram.sendMessage(userId, text, { entities} );

Entities are in the next format:
entities = { offset: 37, length: 13, type: 'bold' }

Does anyone can help me?

[MKRhere]

You must not use any parse_mode with entities. One of:

ctx.reply(text, { entities });
ctx.sendMessage(text, { entities });
ctx.telegram.sendMessage(otherChatId, text, { entities });

Or maybe you just want

ctx.copyMessage(otherChatId);

[BaalDev-Solutions]

@MKRhere, do you know if this is a bug introduced in a later release?

[MKRhere]

It is not a bug. If you specify a parse_mode like Markdown or HTML, the entities will be ignored.