How to insert a link to user profile or chat in message using telethon?

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Composing new message in telethon I'm trying to make something like 'User (link) in chat (link) posted something', but failed.

According to https://github.com/LonamiWebs/Telethon/wiki/Special-links, I've tried links like tg://user?id=123 and tg://openmessage?chat_id=123, but that gives links in text that are not working.

Here's the example:

@client.on(events.NewMessage)
async def handler(event):
    sender = await event.get_sender()
    sender_id = event.sender_id
    sender_link = 'tg://user?id=' + str(sender_id)
    payload = '[%s] (%s) said something' % (sender.first_name, sender_link)

I'm expecting a message with hyperlinked username, but getting [Alex] (tg://user?id=123), and that link leads to nowhere.

telethon hyperlink python-3.x
2 Answers

You need to remove the space between [...] and (...). You should have [%s](%s).

user_96218130

Twit is right, but there are several alternatives. You can manually insert a MessageEntityMention to the parser, or you can use HTML parse_mode and the format. Note that both of these are better, consider for example a user named hello](tg://user?id=321)[. This user would not get a link, so you should avoid markdown as it's not possible to escape this.

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