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How can I make a telegram bot send the dice sticker?

I'm doing a bot that sends messages with the respective command, the easy text message I'm able to send but not an animated sticker.

I've been trying to use the message.reply_sticker and the reply_dice to send the dice emoji and know which outcome will be but I can't seem to be able to send anything, what should I put as a parameter? I tried to find the file_id but it just comes out as "dice".

Solution

  • If you want your bot to send a dice, you'll need to use the sendDice method.

    No parameters (except chat_id are required), but you can set emoji to use a custom emoji (see documentation)

    https://api.telegram.org/bot<MY-BOT-TOKEN>/sendDice?chat_id=132456

    Regarding the 'outcome', Telegram Bot API will return a Message object, which in this case holds the Dice object which will tell you the outcome:

    {
    "ok": true,
    "result": {
        "message_id": 835,
        "from": {
            // ...
        },
        "chat": {
            // ...
        },
        "date": 1693323452,
        "dice": {
            "emoji": "🎲",
            "value": 1
        }
    }
}

    Since you've tagged the library; the sendDice is available on the Bot class.

    For more information and examples, see the relevant documentation.