ForceReply

class telegram.ForceReply(selective=None, input_field_placeholder=None, *, api_kwargs=None)

Bases: telegram.TelegramObject

Upon receiving a message with this object, Telegram clients will display a reply interface to the user (act as if the user has selected the bot’s message and tapped ‘Reply’). This can be extremely useful if you want to create user-friendly step-by-step interfaces without having to sacrifice privacy mode. Not supported in channels and for messages sent on behalf of a Telegram Business account.

Objects of this class are comparable in terms of equality. Two objects of this class are considered equal, if their selective is equal.

Use In

• telegram.Bot.copy_message()

• telegram.Bot.send_animation()

• telegram.Bot.send_audio()

• telegram.Bot.send_contact()

• telegram.Bot.send_dice()

• telegram.Bot.send_document()

• telegram.Bot.send_location()

• telegram.Bot.send_message()

• telegram.Bot.send_paid_media()

• telegram.Bot.send_photo()

• telegram.Bot.send_poll()

• telegram.Bot.send_sticker()

• telegram.Bot.send_venue()

• telegram.Bot.send_video_note()

• telegram.Bot.send_video()

• telegram.Bot.send_voice()

Changed in version 20.0: The (undocumented) argument force_reply was removed and instead force_reply is now always set to True as expected by the Bot API.

Parameters:

• selective (bool, optional) –

  Use this parameter if you want to force reply from specific users only. Targets:

  1. Users that are @mentioned in the text of the telegram.Message object.

  2. If the bot’s message is a reply to a message in the same chat and forum topic, sender of the original message.

• input_field_placeholder (str, optional) –

  The placeholder to be shown in the input field when the reply is active; 1- 64 characters.

  Added in version 13.7.

force_reply

Shows reply interface to the user, as if they manually selected the bots message and tapped ‘Reply’.

Type:

True

selective

Optional. Force reply from specific users only. Targets:

1. Users that are @mentioned in the text of the telegram.Message object.

2. If the bot’s message is a reply to a message in the same chat and forum topic,

   sender of the original message.

Type:

bool

input_field_placeholder

Optional. The placeholder to be shown in the input field when the reply is active; 1- 64 characters.

Added in version 13.7.

Type:

str

MAX_INPUT_FIELD_PLACEHOLDER = 64

telegram.constants.ReplyLimit.MAX_INPUT_FIELD_PLACEHOLDER

Added in version 20.0.

MIN_INPUT_FIELD_PLACEHOLDER = 1

telegram.constants.ReplyLimit.MIN_INPUT_FIELD_PLACEHOLDER

Added in version 20.0.