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Python, telebot: Error: "message can't be deleted for everyone"

I'm building a telegram bot which sends three dices with bot.send_dice(). In the code I collect their IDs into a list and then I'm creating new loop to delete every message. start_message is a message id which was sent earlier

messages = []

time.sleep(0.1)

bot.delete_message(chat_id=callback.message.chat.id,
                   message_id=start_message.id,)

        time.sleep(0.1)

        for _ in range(3):
            dice_message = bot.send_dice(callback.message.chat.id,
                          emoji="🎲")
            messages.append(dice_message.id)
            time.sleep(6)

        for d in range(3):
            bot.delete_message(chat_id=callback.message.chat.id,
                               message_id=messages[d])

This code is inside this function:

@bot.callback_query_handler(func=lambda call:True)
def main(callback):
    'my code'

I'm getting an error:

telebot.apihelper.ApiTelegramException: A request to the Telegram API was unsuccessful. Error code: 400. Description: Bad Request: message can't be deleted for everyone

I was expecting that the code would delete all messages in the messages list. But it didn't. I tried deleting time.sleep(time) lines from my code, but it didn't work.

Solution

  • According to the documentation:

    A dice message in a private chat can only be deleted if it was sent more than 24 hours ago.