1. We know that there is ForceReply option to get input from user in telegram api. Telegram said : Upon receiving a message with this object, Telegram clients will display a reply interface to the user (act as if the user has selected the bot's message and tapped 'Reply'). Examples - python-telegram-bot v20.7. Examples ¶. In this section we display small examples to show what a bot written with python-telegram-bot looks like. Some bots focus on one specific aspect of the Telegram Bot API while others focus on one of the mechanics of this library. Description. Upon receiving a message with this object, Telegram clients will display a reply interface to the user (act as if the user has selected the bot's message and tapped 'Reply'). Usage. ForceReply (force_reply = TRUE, selective = NULL) Arguments. Examples. Currently, can be "mention" (@username), "hashtag" (#hashtag), "cashtag" ($USD), "bot_command" (/start@jobs_bot), "url" ("email" (do-not-reply@telegram.org), "phone_number" (+1-212-555-0123), "bold" (bold text), "italic" (italic text), "underline" (underlined text), "strikethrough Use this parameter if you want to force reply from specific users only. Targets: Users that are @mentioned in the text of the Message object. If the bot's message is a reply (has reply_to_message_id), sender of the original message. **kwargs ( dict) - Arbitrary keyword arguments. force_reply ¶. ForceReply (Showing top 1 results out of 315) origin: pengrad/java-telegram-bot-api @Test public void sendMessage() { SendResponse sendResponse = bot.execute Telegram Bot API C# Client. Telegram Bot API C# Client. Telegram.Bot.Types Namespaces. Telegram.Bot.Types.ReplyMarkups. ForceReply Class. ForceReply Methods. ForceReply Methods: The ForceReply type exposes the following members. Methods Name Description; Equals: Determines whether the specified object is equal to the current object Targets: 1) users that are @mentioned in the text of the Message object; 2) if the bot's message is a reply (has ReplyToMessage), sender of the original message. Example: A user requests to change the bot's language, bot replies to the request with a keyboard to select the new language. Other users in the group don't see the keyboard. Arguments. force_reply. Shows reply interface to the user, as if they manually selected the bot's message and tapped 'Reply'. Defaults to TRUE. selective. (Optional). Use this parameter if you want to show the keyboard to specific users only. Examples. Run this code. 2 Answers. Sorted by: 7. It may be late to help you, but here it goes. Currently only one reply_markup field is allow and this field must contain only one of the following types: ReplyKeyboardMarkup or ReplyKeyboardHide or ForceReply (see docs) 7q8evR.