How to get message id of a message through telegram python api

Question

Ok, I know this is a newbie question but I've been stuck for a while now.

I just started using pythonTelegarmapi but I have no idea how to get message_id of a message. How do i do it?

import os
import telebot

API_KEY =  "API_KEY"

# Getting the bot instance
bot = telebot.TeleBot(API_KEY)

# Forward mesasage
# From https://core.telegram.org5/bots/api#forwardmessage
@bot.message_handler(commands=['forward'])
def forward(message):
    bot.forward_message('@send_to','@from', 1, False)
                                           ^^^
#                                          Here is supposed to be the message_id but I don't know how to get that. 

"""

So, how to I retrieve the ID of a particular message in a chat/channel using Python Telegram Bot Api?

Answer 1

You'll need:

bot.forward_message(mydebugid, message.chat.id, message.message_id, False)

Where mydebugid is the ID you're forwarding to.

---

import os
import telebot

API_KEY = "--"

# Getting the bot instance
bot = telebot.TeleBot(API_KEY)

mydebugid = 123456

bot.send_message(mydebugid, "Wake")

# Forward mesasage
@bot.message_handler(commands=['forward'])
def forward(message):
    bot.forward_message(mydebugid, message.chat.id, message.message_id, False)


bot.polling()