Allow hiding sender's name and/or caption when forwarding

[Architector4]

Telegram Desktop 3.0 client has introduced the ability to "change how the messages will be sent" when forwarding (see attached image): https://desktop.telegram.org/changelog#v-3-0-31-08-21

From that, I assume it would be possible for Telethon to expose that as well. However, I do not see any way to do the same thing in the function telethon.client.messages.MessageMethods.forward_messages. Either I'm blind and missed it, or it's not in Telethon?

[soroushfathi]

you can use send_message for hide senders name.
And for caption, you can put caption argument empty :)

msg = event.message
msg.raw_text = ""
await client.send_message(chat, msg)

telethon.client.messages.MessageMethods.send_message

[Architector4]

you can use send_message for hide senders name. And for caption, you can put caption argument empty :)

Oh, yeah, that does work and makes sense - just taking the message object and sending it as self - all the media stays there too lol

Though still, since at least official Telegram offer this functionality as a type of a forward, I feel like it's still a good idea to implement this with the forward_messages method, or at least mention this trick in its documentation.

[soroushfathi]

you can use send_message for hide senders name. And for caption, you can put caption argument empty :)

Oh, yeah, that does work and makes sense - just taking the message object and sending it as self - all the media stays there too lol

Though still, since at least official Telegram offer this functionality as a type of a forward, I feel like it's still a good idea to implement this with the forward_messages method, or at least mention this trick in its documentation.

yeah👍 i dont know why still they didn't implement this with forward message

[du5]

you can use send_message for hide senders name. And for caption, you can put caption argument empty :)

Oh, yeah, that does work and makes sense - just taking the message object and sending it as self - all the media stays there too lol

Though still, since at least official Telegram offer this functionality as a type of a forward, I feel like it's still a good idea to implement this with the forward_messages method, or at least mention this trick in its documentation.

I also had this problem, I modified the parameters and it worked du5@64733fa

[alm0ra]

@Lonami have same issue

[Lonami]

This is unlikely to happen in the near future so I will be closing the issue. We can reopen it if there's still interest once the time is right. Note that it's possible to use raw API if you need features not exposed by the friendly API.

[matveygal]

Guys you didn't read the docs. Just use copy_message. Here are the Docs

[sophronesis]

Guys you didn't read the docs. Just use copy_message. Here are the Docs

It's not telethon docs, it even doesn't replace telethon, it's just simple bot wrapper

[sophronesis]

Best possible way to solve this is to just use Pyrogram whose copy_message() method does exactly this.

[Architector4]

Best possible way to solve this is to just use Pyrogram whose copy_message() method does exactly this.

Between using an entirely different unrelated package for dealing with Telegram and rewriting all my code to use that, and doing a simple albeit a bit obtuse thing that Telethon has that achieves the same purpose, I think I'd rather choose the latter lmao

[YQHan]

Best possible way to solve this is to just use Pyrogram whose copy_message() method does exactly this.

Between using an entirely different unrelated package for dealing with Telegram and rewriting all my code to use that, and doing a simple albeit a bit obtuse thing that Telethon has that achieves the same purpose, I think I'd rather choose the latter lmao

I got a problem, when the message has markdown style, like text, the send_message with formatting_entities=message.entities doesn't work well.

[YQHan]

Best possible way to solve this is to just use Pyrogram whose copy_message() method does exactly this.

But copy_message() doesn't work well when the message has complicated styles.