How to send a colored text message?

Question

I am trying to send a colored text message to a user as reply, using sendMessage with HTML parsing.

bot.sendMessage(update.message.chat_id, "<span style=\"color:blue\">foo</span>", telegram.ParseMode.HTML)

Sending <span style="color:blue">foo</span> doesn't work, as span is not supported:

Bad Request: Can't parse message text: Unsupported start tag "span" at byte offset 0 (400)

I am using the python-telegram-bot v. 4.0.3.

Is there another way?

Devalue

Which module are you using, please provide a code example – Celluloid

@EdoPut there you go, added both ;) – Devalue

Telegram lacks this feature, so you cannot send coloured text. I have asked to add bb-code support in @BotSupport. – Irksome

possible duplicate : https://mcmap.net/q/539813/-using-html-in-telegram-bot – Mutualize

Answer 1

Unfortunately there is no documentation about the tag accepted by the bot, except the unit test for parsemode.

The tags that work are b, i, a for bold, italic and link elements, this is what is offered, maybe there's more but I couldn't find it in the docs

Celluloid

Is there maybe some other solution other than HTML? – Devalue

No, the telegram api docs describes the messageEntity as > mention (@username), hashtag, bot_command, url, email, bold (bold > text), italic (italic text), code (monowidth string), pre (monowidth block), > text_link (for clickable text URLs) So there is no way to add colour to text message but you can always process the text into an image and display that. – Celluloid

yes, it is sad....but the few html tags supported are: core.telegram.org/bots/api#html-style – Dominy

Answer 2

Your can enlight piece of text with grave character "`"

AAAA ` enlight piece ` BBB

Anissaanita

Answer 3

According to the core API docs, Telegram only supports the <span> tag for spoiler text. I tried to send a message with HTML parsing and the text:

"<span style=\"color:#fc5252;\">text</span>"

And got:

Can't parse entities: tag "span" must have class "tg-spoiler" at byte offset 0

I'm guessing this means the <span> tag can only be used for spoiler text.

Schick