如何使用 Telegram 的 python bot API 编辑已发送的消息？

Question

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?

Answer 1

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()

Answer 2

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")

Answer 3

EDIT: In my answer i'm 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 (its called "InlineKeyboard"). Here is a example