# How to get the last user input in Rasa

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**Category:** Rasa Open Source\
**Created:** [May 31, 2020, 4:52am UTC](https://forum.rasa.com/t/how-to-get-the-last-user-input-in-rasa/29549 "2020-05-31T04:52:28Z")\
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hi @shaiful019,

To my knowledge you have to use slots to fill in the button input, you cannot get text using `tracker.latest_message[‘text’]`

for more reference you can refer below:

> [@How to get values from payload in button after choosing an option?](http://forum.rasa.com/t/how-to-get-values-from-payload-in-button-after-choosing-an-option/11979):
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> Hi there, I want to get access to the payload values from my custom buttons. The main idea is to choose one option from the buttons, and then collect the payload values in a variable, in order to pass these to the next action. The custom buttons are in a loop where from each items I collect the needed values for the “titles” and for the “payloads”. I want to achieve this in a dynamic way, since I have a lot of different variables with different length. Here is my code until now: def run(s…

Hope this helps

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