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.

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_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.

  New 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.

New in version 13.7.

Type:

str

MAX_INPUT_FIELD_PLACEHOLDER = 64

telegram.constants.ReplyLimit.MAX_INPUT_FIELD_PLACEHOLDER

New in version 20.0.

MIN_INPUT_FIELD_PLACEHOLDER = 1

telegram.constants.ReplyLimit.MIN_INPUT_FIELD_PLACEHOLDER

New in version 20.0.