How to implement pagination in telegram?

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hi. im trying to integrate my rasa chatbot to telegram and i want to send a list of information but apply pagination since theyre kinda long. ive seen a tutorial here: python-telegram-bot-pagination · PyPI

but to my understanding, it seems to work as a standalone/ without any bot framework besides telebot, and cant call 2 instances of the bot at the same time (webhooks in rasa & telebot)

how do i implement pagination in telegram? how can i add those same functions from the example within actions.py? thank you so much

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If you want to use this library I’d suggest creating a custom channel which extracts the pagination inforrmation from a custom output payload.

It might also work to just use buttons? What exactly does the pagination do? So what happens if I e.g. click on << 3?

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hi! thank u so much for replying. still a little confused with the custom channels bit but still trying to learn it.

someone also suggested using button payloads. i could visualize how its gonna work but the main problem i have is how i can access the response made by the chatbot, and edit it accordingly

say for example i have a list of characters (like from the example in my post). i need the bot to reply with details of the first character only, along with buttons “prev” and “next”

so when u click on the next button, it supposedly edits the bot reply (containing details of the first character) to details of the 2nd character of the list

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Clicking the button should in my opinion send a new user message which then triggers some sort of action which updates the slot value.