Get Reply Message from Telegram Bot API

Question

I'm developing a Bot that I want users to call in a reply to a previous message. So you would reply to a message with the bot command.

For Example
User 1: Hello World
User 2: (Reply to Hello World) /command test message

Right now I am only able to grab the text sent directly in the command ("test message"), but not the first message ("Hello World"). According to their documentation, I should be able to get it from reply_to_message. However, all I'm seeing in my logs from the webhook is this.

event: {
  body: {
    update_id: 5632431,
    message: {
      message_id: 43,
      from: {
        id: < my_user_id > ,
        first_name: 'User 2',
        username: 'user_2_username',
        language_code: 'en'
      },
      chat: {
        id: < chat_id > ,
        title: < chat_name > ,
        type: 'group',
        all_members_are_administrators: true
      },
      date: 1498342725,
      text: '/command test message',
      entities: [{
        type: 'bot_command',
        offset: 0,
        length: 5
      }]
    }
  }
}

Am I doing something wrong? Anyone have experience getting a reply message? Any help would be appreciated.

Solution

Goto @BotFather, and turn off privacy mode

/setprivacy — Set which messages your bot will receive when added to a group. With privacy mode disabled, the bot will receive all messages.

You might need re-add your bot to group after set this.

Comments

[Wboy]

This seems like a nuclear option when you're only interested in the reply portion though