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Markup for Telegram bot replies

You can use the Markdown or HTML markup to change the appearance of the chatbot messages in Telegram.

Apply markup to specific messages​

To apply markup to a specific message, include the markup key in a bot answer of the text type. Available values for the markup key are html and markdown.

script:
    $response.replies = $response.replies || [];
    $response.replies.push({
        "type": "text",
        "text": "HTML — <i>hypertext</i> markup language for web pages.",
        "markup": "html"
    });
tip

To learn several more ways to use HTML markup, please refer to the HTML markup page.

Apply markup to all bot replies​

To enable markup for the whole script, pass the $context function with markup parameters to the postProcess handler:

bind("postProcess", function(context) {
    if (context.request.channelType === "telegram") {
        context.response.replies.forEach(function(reply) {
            if (reply.type === "text") {
                reply.markup = "markdown"; // Acceptable values: "html", "markdown"
            }
        });
    }
});

All bot replies in Telegram are injected with a property indicating that the replies are marked up.

Markup syntax​

Markdown​

MarkupDisplayed text
\*Bold\*Bold
\_Italics\_Italics
`Code`Code

HTML​

MarkupDisplayed text
<b>Bold</b>Bold
<i>Italics</i>Italics
<code>Code</code>Code
<u>Underline</u>Underlined
<strike>Strikethrough</strike>Strikethrough
<pre>Preformatted text</pre>
Preformatted text