[FEATURE] MessageReactionHandler returning message content

[zmn-hamid]

What kind of feature are you missing? Where do you notice a shortcoming of PTB?

telegram.ext.messagereactionhandler doesn't actually return the message itself, only the message_id (and we don't have any Bot.get_message function either). If we can't see what's the message that has been reacted to, this handler is quite useless

Describe the solution you'd like

update.message or context.effective_message should be the exact message that has been replied to, including all of it's data (such as inline keyboard)

Describe alternatives you've considered

There's no alternative feature but at least a Bot.get_message would help.

Additional context

Current output of update.to_dict() when a user reacts to a message:

{
  "message_reaction": {
    "chat": {
      "first_name": "NAME",
      "id": USER_ID,
      "type": "private",        
      "username": "USERNAME"   
    },
    "date": 1727549399,
    "message_id": 19456,        
    "new_reaction": [
      {
        "emoji": "❤",
        "type": "emoji"
      }
    ],
    "user": {
      "first_name": "NAME",
      "id": USER_ID,
      "is_bot": false,
      "language_code": "en",
      "username": "USERNAME"
    }
  },
  "update_id": 980133295
}

[Bibo-Joshi]

Hi, thanks for reaching out. Please note that the content of update is the data that PTB receives from Telegram, see also this faq entry. Since Telegram does not include the details of the message and - as you correctly mentioned - there is no method get_message provided by Telegram either, there is nothing that PTB could do about this. You would have to keep track of all messages/message ids that you might be interested in such that you can look them up in MessageReactionHandler. See also PTB built-in solution for stroring data