error 400 when sending request from python to telegram

Question

I got a 400 error while sending a request from python to telegram.

Here is the code:

bot_message = message
bot_token = 'xxx'
bot_chatID = 'xxx'
send_text = 'https://api.telegram.org/bot' + bot_token + '/sendMessage?chat_id=' + bot_chatID + '&parse_mode=Markdown&text=' + bot_message
response = requests.get(send_text)

Here's the message that caused error :

sharashahira 2021-01-25 10:37:50 @CIMB_Assists Mana ni kata sampai pkul 4;45pm. Sampai sekaranf error. Boikot cimb clicks app??

It got "emote" , so I got 400 when send to telegram.

This is the error

{"ok":false,"error_code":400,"description":"Bad Request: can't parse entities: Can't find end of the entity starting at byte offset 17"}

question from:https://stackoverflow.com/questions/65895555/error-400-when-sending-request-from-python-to-telegram

Answer 1

Can't find end of the entity starting at byte offset 17"

This error is caused by a MarkDown error caused by: @CIMB_Assists

The _ starts an underline syntax, but is never closed. Telegram can't send those messages.

There are 2 ways to fix this;

1. Remove the MarkDown, send the message as HTML:

   '&parse_mode=HTML&text=' + bot_message
   

2. Remove the _ from the message

   sharashahira 2021-01-25 10:37:50 @CIMBAssists Mana ni kata sampai pkul 4;45pm. Sampai sekaranf error. Boikot cimb clicks app??