Telegram send media group

Rasa Open Source
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Hi, I am trying to send more than 1 image in telegram in custom actions.

            photogrp = "https://i.imgur.com/nGF1K8f.jpg",  "https://i.imgur.com/iXNqKN8.jpeg"
            mediatest = {
                "media": {photogrp}
            }
            dispatcher.utter_message(json_message=mediatest)

I am trying to use json_message to send these group photos. I know that’s something wrong with the json I defined. Anyone have experience on this, please let me know. Thanks.

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Welcome to the forum! :slight_smile:

Try to send multiple messages instead:

 photogrp = ["https://i.imgur.com/nGF1K8f.jpg",  "https://i.imgur.com/iXNqKN8.jpeg"]

for photo in photogrp:
    mediatest = {
        "media": photo
    }

    dispatcher.utter_message(json_message = mediatest)
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Thanks Chris, :+1: This is a workaround method, but it will be annoying for user if sending a group of photos, example 10. Now at least I got the json_message responding. Still trying to figure out how to pass the list in.

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Why though? You won’t have to add anything to the code (except the links obviously).

What do you mean? Don’t hesitate to ask for help :slight_smile:

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Let me tell you some background of what this bot doing, this is a bot working as a middle man, to link up seller and buyer. From seller side seller will let the bot know what kind of used stuff he/she wanted to sell (example iPhone 11), and uploaded the bot some photos (max 10), the bot has a database to store the info and a storage to store the photos. (Seller part is completed)

From the buyer will ask the bot about the product he/she is looking for (example iPhone 11), bot will search at the database and return the product info and photos.

photogrp = []
photos = [pic1, pic2, pic3, pic4, pic5, pic6, pic7, pic8, pic9, pic10]
for photo in photos:
   photogrp.append(telegram.InputMediaPhoto(photo))
bot.send_media_group(chat_id=chat_id, media=photogrp)

Above code is working with Python telegram module (non-Rasa)

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Ah I see, interesting use-case.

But what’s the problem? I still don’t understand what you meant by this:

Does sending a group of photo appears differently that individual photos in Telegram? Doesn’t Telegram merge successive photos into a group like WhatsApp does?

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If 10 photos, It will prompt users 10 times, and multiply by numbers of product matched. I want it to be minimize prompt

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Ah, that’s annoying indeed.

This is more related to Telegram than to Rasa, though. I don’t have knowledge about Telegram but what happens if you pass the list to the “media” key (as you were initially doing but with correct format)?

photogrp = ["https://i.imgur.com/nGF1K8f.jpg",  "https://i.imgur.com/iXNqKN8.jpeg"]

dispatcher.utter_message(json_message = {
    "media": photogrp
})
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No luck, It passing in the JSON, but the 2 photos not send out by the bot. I am going to modify my local PC “telegram.py” (https://github.com/RasaHQ/rasa/blob/main/rasa/core/channels/telegram.py) Between line 137 - 141

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