I'm developing a bot for Skype and enabled setting that allows to add this bot to Group Chats. However, when I click to "Add People" button, I can see only the real people, but Skype Bots are hidden there (even the official ones).
There is an official doc that Skype bot can be added to the group chat as regular Skype account, but I am not able to do it.
My bot is not published, but one on one conversation works well. Also, in the private chat with Bot I can add people to conversation and thus I can create a group with this bot, but the main question is how to add the bot to the existing group chat?
On the configuration page for Skype on the dev.botframework.com site. Make sure you've enabled group messaging:
Additional information about groups on skype can be found here.
Finally I was able to add it to the group by opening Web Skype and then opening the private chat with my Bot.
Web Skype showed me a message "Add SkotBot to your contacts" which is very strange because it was already on my contact list. After clicking to this link bot is displayed on the "Add People" list.
I had the similar issues. and I try your method/suggestion above, it works!
the exact steps for other to read on (based on your suggestion)
1. from Mac Client Skype, I'm using version 7.43 (241) make a 1:1 chat with my bot. (to make it appears on the chat history on web skype later)
2. login the web skype, it will appear as history/conversation on the left. Message sending is disabled. Clicking on the bot icon appears on the chat screen above, it will open the profile
3. Add the bot to contact.
4. Then the bot can be added to the existing group conversation, just like add a normal human contact.
It seems to be some bugs in the Skype ecosystem?
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I have a .Net Core application from where I have deep linked a particular chatbot of Microsoft Teams. It is an Azure Bot. It is properly opening the chat in Teams, which is a one-time process. However, as soon as the chat opens I want to catch a bot activity, which I'm unable to do. I want to send a welcome message as soon as the chat opens.
Please suggest which activity I can catch after deep linking or what other approaches I can take to achieve it.
You want to listen for the conversationUpdate event in your bot code. You can read more about it here. Specifically for Teams, can use the "Team Members Added" event.
Remember that Teams bots are built on top of the generalised Microsoft Bot Framework, so if you want some more background on Welcome Messages, have a look at https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/bot-service/bot-builder-send-welcome-message?view=azure-bot-service-4.0&tabs=csharp
i'm trying to create a bot which can read/receive all messages in a specific channel and send them to me .
my problem here is that i can't find a way to access those messages in my bot
important thing is:
i'm not admin or creator of that channel
i don't want to ask the creator to add my bot as administrator
i've searched in google but i wasn't able to find a solution
and i'm also sure that it is possible to do it, because there are already some junction bots with exact same performance .
any references or suggestions are appreciated .
As already pointed out in the Telegram group of python-telegram-bot, bots can't receive messages from channels where they are not an admin. If you want something like this, you'll have to use a user bot, e.g. a program that controls your private Telegram account (in contrast to controlling a bot account). See here for some info on user bots.
Note that also the provider that you linked seems to be using userbots behind the scenes. More precisely, the docs on the so called "DirectConnection" state that you need to enter a phone number (associated to a telegram account) and then "Follow the instructions" which probably just means to enter the verification code that Telegram sends you. Phone number + verification code is exactly what is needed to control your private Telegram account.
Disclaimer: I'm currently the maintainer of python-telegram-bot.
Is there any way to refresh/clear BOT chat history and start new conversation in MS Teams.
If Yes please let me know how to do it .
There is (as of the posting of this answer) no way to delete teams chat history, so there is no way to clear the previous messages of a bot from the teams client. There are ways to clear a bot's conversation state, but as the bot's Microsoft app ID is tied to a Teams app ID as soon as you add the channel, the messages displayed on the teams chat window are there to stay no matter how you handle your bot's state/history storage.
The only work around for this is to remove the bot from Teams entirely, and redeploy it using a new Bot Channels Registration/Web App bot, which doesn't, per se, delete the history so much as create a totally new bot.
For reference:
https://support.office.com/en-us/article/delete-a-chat-in-teams-da6d87ed-59bc-4407-9291-95ee193f8344
It's the first time that I used Telegram Bot and I'm looking for a way to create a membership channel, in particular:
I have a website where the users can subscribe a specific mebership level and this give access to a specific feature of the site. Actually I was able to create a bot and establish a communication with the site through the channel (where the bot is linked). In this way, each time that I publish an article on my Wordpress site the users of the Telegram Channel can see the article.
The problem
In this way, all the users of the cannel can see the article, I want show the message that contains the article only to the users which have subscribed a membership on my WordPress site. Is there a way to achieve this?
Adding a channel to your solution adds extra complexity. Suggested solution as your requirement:
Add telegram web login to your website. After that you will have access to those users to send them a message via your bot.
Send your messages only to whom have an active subscription.
This way you can also remind individual users in case of expiration of their subscription
I made a simple chatbot using Microsoft Bot Framework and integrated it with Telegram.
He works fine whenever I message him privately but whenever I put him in a group with my friends, he doesn't reply, even when I mention him.
/setjoingroups is enabled, and so is /setprivacy.
First make sure it is not caused by Microsoft Bot itself. Then for all normal bots --
Always add a Telegram bot to a group via the bot's info window, instead of inviting the bot to a group via the group's info window.
It's a clear trap for beginners. I'm surprised that Telegram didn't note this in their documentation.
When you configured your bot on Telegram, did you make it an inline bot? It's been my experience that inline bots cannot participate in group chats, but can message privately. If not, please open a GitHub issue here and we'll follow up there.
Beyond all other suggestions like turning off inline functions, setting privacy to disabled and allowing to participate in groups, I also made the bot an admin of my group. And now it processes all messages. That's what's worked for me.
I had this same problem, and I found that I just needed to add the bot as an 'admin' to the chat instead of just a normal member. The telegram bot must have admin privileges to access every message/image that the users of the group-chat send.