Trying to reply manually for some users reply

[hkpmatt]

My solution here is to forward the private message to a group with me.
However, i can only get the users chat id and send to the group like below
and use a syntax "/reply <chat_id> " at the telegram group to forward my manual message to the user

Is there get other way to store the chat_id globally without replaced by new user or other function that i can just reply to the forwarded message to reply the user on the telegram group?

[hkpmatt]

This is the support group of the bot.

And this is what the user will receive when talking to the bot

[hkpmatt]

is there any way that i can get the id from this Forward_From.

[harshil21]

You can for e.g. attach the user's id to the support message, and then while you reply to it, retrieve the replied message using update.effective_message.reply_to_message and parse that to get the original user's id. This way you don't need to store anything. e.g:

"""
From (<username|name> - <user_id>): Hi i have this problem with the bot...

> From (<username|name> - <user_id>): Hi i have this problem with the bot...

Hi do this...

org_msg = update.effective_message.reply_to_message
user_id = parsing code here
await context.bot.send_message(user_id, update.effective_message.text)

[hkpmatt]

tried this code right here, it can parse to get the chat id under forward_from.

now I can directly reply to the user via the bot when user dont hide their forward message

code = str(update.effective_message.reply_to_message)
forward_from_start = code.find("forward_from=User(") + len("forward_from=User(")
forward_from_end = code.find(", from_user=")

# Extract the substring containing forward_from field
forward_from_str = code[forward_from_start:forward_from_end]

# Find the start and end indices of the id field within forward_from
id_start = forward_from_str.find("id=") + len("id=")
id_end = forward_from_str.find(",", id_start)

# Extract the id value
id_value = forward_from_str[id_start:id_end]
print(id_value)

[harshil21]

well my point was to not forward the user's message, but to just extract it and send it to you along with user id (update.effective_user.id) (update.effective_message.text). This way you bypass the forward secrecy issue.

[hkpmatt]

Yes this is my original solution.
The number after '/reply' is the id from the sender.
But I want to directly reply to the forwarded message to reply the user