How to use 'Markdown' in parse_mode of telegram bot?

Question

bot.on(/^\/s (.+)$/, async function(msg, props) {
      let id = msg.chat.id;
      let message = await MyBot.getBySearchQuery(props.match[1]);
      let parse_mode = 'Markdown';
      return bot.sendMessage(id, message, { parse_mode });
    });

By /s <param> I want to get some hyperlink in telegram. But instead of that I'm getting [hyperlink](http://some_url) .

What is going wrong here? The message here is always a string like [title](url) .

Answer 1

Are you using the node-telegram-bot-api npm module?

I think you want to be using bot.onText method not .on . I've just tried with both, and when using .on the callback function never runs.

bot.onText(/^\/s (.+)$/, async function(msg, props) {
  let id = msg.chat.id;
  let message = await MyBot.getBySearchQuery(props.match[1]);
  let parse_mode = 'Markdown';
  return bot.sendMessage(id, message, { parse_mode });
});

Have you tried adding some kind of logging to this method to see if it ever actually runs, and that your getBySearchQuery(..) is returning the expected message?

Answer 2

This reason yours isn't working is because you called it parse_mode instead of parseMode ( See doc )

Try this, it should work.

const TeleBot = require('telebot');

const bot = new TeleBot('35353453:sfsdfsdffgrtyrty454646thfhfgfgh')

bot.on(/^\/s (.+)$/, async function(msg, props) {
  const id = msg.chat.id;
  const url = "https://google.com";
  const message = `Read more about [Google](${url}) now!!!!`;

  return bot.sendMessage(id, message, { parseMode: 'Markdown' });
});

bot.start();

Okay, I tested it and it works well. I sent /s ert and here was the response:

So now let me click Google and you'll see the popup:

THERE YOU GO. Hope it helps