How to send Emoji with Telegram Bot API?

Question

I need to send messages containing emoji with my Telegram Bot.

So I copy/paste emoji code :nine: for example, in my message text and send it to a user, BUT emoji didn`t work.

This is my sample code and function:

function tel_send($key, $t, $c)
{
    $ch = curl_init();
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, "https://api.telegram.org/bot" . $key . "/sendMessage");
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, true);
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, "cache=" . (time() / rand(1, time() - 100)) . "&text=" . $t . "&chat_id=" . $c);
    $ss = curl_exec($ch);
    curl_close($ch);
    return $ss;
}
tel_send($key, "My number - :nine:", $val['message']['chat']['id']);

So, my question is: How can I send emoji by Telegram bot?

score 63 · Answer 1 · answered Jan 05 '16 at 11:09

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I faced the same issue a few days ago.. The solution is to use Bytes (UTF-8) notation from this table: http://apps.timwhitlock.info/emoji/tables/unicode

examples:

\xF0\x9F\x98\x81 GRINNING FACE WITH SMILING EYES

\xF0\x9F\x98\x89 WINKING FACE

answered Jan 05 '16 at 11:09

codeWhisperer

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Sucesfully used this with a PHP bot. +1 for providing so excellent link with that format emojis codes. – Feb 07 '16 at 03:25
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In PHP, remember to use it inside a double quoted string. – MTVS Feb 18 '16 at 12:01
This is the only way to get emoji's working when calling the API url directly. – NVO Feb 13 '18 at 15:58
Awesome, should be the accepted answer. This is the updated link: http://www.unicode.org/emoji/charts/full-emoji-list.html – Dennis Golomazov Sep 25 '19 at 21:32

Mustafa · Accepted Answer · 2016-03-09T20:16:35.063

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you need to specify emoji's unicode value.

check here

these are returned by a function as emoji value like u'\U000026C4' which is snowman. although it is in python, you can apply it for php.

edited Mar 09 '16 at 20:16

answered Jul 15 '15 at 13:30

Mustafa

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In PHP, remember to use byte codes inside double quoted strings – MTVS Feb 18 '16 at 12:02
Not all emoji in your link. E.g. there is no `index finger up` emogi, `:point_up:` shortcode. – Green Oct 04 '16 at 15:27
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you can find complete list of emoji [here](https://github.com/shanraisshan/EmojiCodeSheet) – shanraisshan Feb 13 '17 at 06:17

Milad Rahimi · Answer 3 · 2020-05-31T17:14:24.367

See emojis and their UTF-8 codes here: http://apps.timwhitlock.info/emoji/tables/unicode

Then you must convert UTF-8 codes to Telegram-ready response text with the following code:

<?php

function telegram_emoji($utf8emoji) {
    preg_replace_callback(
        '@\\\x([0-9a-fA-F]{2})@x',
        function ($captures) {
            return chr(hexdec($captures[1]));
        },
        $utf8emoji
    );

    return $utf8emoji;
}

$utf8emoji = '\xF0\x9F\x98\x81';

$telegramReadyResponse = 'Hi user ' . telegram_emoji($utf8emoji);

Sully · Answer 4 · 2020-12-14T09:25:59.577

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You can just copy emojy from telegram and paste in text to send like

$bot_url    = "https://api.telegram.org/bot$apiToken/";
$url        = $bot_url . "sendPhoto?chat_id=@Your chanel user";

$post_fields = array(
    'chat_id'   => $chat_id,
    'caption'   => 'Test caption ',
    'photo'     => new CURLFile(realpath("logo.jpg"))
);

$ch = curl_init(); 
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, array(
    "Content-Type:multipart/form-data"
));
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url); 
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1); 
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $post_fields); 
$output = curl_exec($ch);

another way you can use the name of shap ,for example for home you can use :house: example:

:phone:
:white_check_mark:
:factory:
:page_with_curl:

edited Dec 14 '20 at 09:25

answered Apr 28 '20 at 06:20

Sully

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All ingenious is simple ) I spent a lot of time before I saw your answer ) This is the only solution that worked for me – Anar Salimkhanov Jul 20 '20 at 22:22
All ingenious is simple ) I spent a lot of time before I saw your answer ) This is the only solution that worked for me – Anar Salimkhanov Jul 20 '20 at 22:22

score 5 · Answer 5 · answered Sep 13 '18 at 15:43

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I am using this code at linux bash and curl command for grinning face

curl -X POST "https://api.telegram.org/botTOKEN/sendMessage" -d "chat_id=ID&text=%F0%9F%98%80&parse_modwarninge=Markdown"

answered Sep 13 '18 at 15:43

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score 4 · Answer 6 · answered Nov 16 '16 at 18:48

Real solution is to use https://github.com/spatie/emoji (composer require spatie/emoji) for Emoji codes. Now your code will look like

Emoji::CHARACTER_EYES

or

Emoji::eyes()

This is something you could really use. Unlike writing all the codes manually and having hard time understanding what is it on the first glance.

score 3 · Answer 7 · answered Jan 11 '21 at 13:51

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> PHP 7

You just to use the \u and the unicode literal like following:

$emojie = "\u{1F600}";

Resource: https://stackoverflow.com/a/33548423/8760592

answered Jan 11 '21 at 13:51

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score 3 · Answer 8 · answered Nov 21 '21 at 10:02

IMPORTANT THING:

No one said it.

You have to use double quote, not single ones. Code below will give you just text: \xF0\x9F\x98\x822021-11-21 09:54:25

define('TELEGRAM_TOKEN', '9999999999:FFFFFFFFFFFFraxb6jajm8cDlKPOH-FFFFFFF');

define('TELEGRAM_CHATID', '@my_bot');  

message_to_telegram('\xF0\x9F\x98\x82' . date('Y-m-d H:i:s'));

function message_to_telegram($text)
{
    $ch = curl_init();
    curl_setopt_array(
        $ch,
        array(
            CURLOPT_URL => 'https://api.telegram.org/bot' . TELEGRAM_TOKEN . '/sendMessage',
            CURLOPT_POST => TRUE,
            CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER => TRUE,
            CURLOPT_TIMEOUT => 10,
            CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS => array(
                'chat_id' => TELEGRAM_CHATID,
                'text' => $text,
            ),
        )
    );
    curl_exec($ch);
}

But with double quotes you'll get emoji:

message_to_telegram("\xF0\x9F\x98\x82" . date('Y-m-d H:i:s'));

score 1 · Answer 9 · edited May 23 '17 at 11:54

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An addition to this answer https://stackoverflow.com/a/31431810/1114926.

The link that Mustafa provided doesn't represent all emoji. This source is better http://emojipedia.org/ ☝️. It has variations of emoji in addition to the major sign.

edited May 23 '17 at 11:54

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answered Oct 04 '16 at 15:44

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score 1 · Answer 10 · answered Feb 08 '17 at 21:10

I have been looking for an answer for this for a long time, but could not get it working. my scripting skills are poor and converting php answers to bash proved a challenge.

But, nonetheless I got it working with a most simple solution: I went to telegram desktop messenger, there i send the required emoji ().

Than I made a variable: bus=""

Now I can use the variable in the curl as: "text=some text $bus"

This works great using bash on linux, I suppose it could also work in php.

score 1 · Answer 11 · answered Jun 05 '20 at 09:25

Easiest way is to just copy and past the emoji you need in your code. But then you will have to make sure your source code files are stored UTF8

I just opened Telegram on my system and copied the ones I needed and never looked back :) Funny thing is that I do not have to work with constants, specific names or the unicode character value. I can directly see what emoji is used IN MY EDITOR.

$message = 'Pointing down: ';

If you process that into a message (example above is PHP, but I guess it will work in any programming language)

score 1 · Answer 12 · answered Jun 10 '21 at 01:25

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You need to json_decode unicode value first, try like this.

json_decode('"\ud83d\ude0a"')

answered Jun 10 '21 at 01:25

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score 0 · Answer 13 · answered Dec 06 '19 at 09:16

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Just another choice $curl .... -F text="&#x1F601" -F parse_mode=html .... "https://api.telegram.org/botTOKEN/sendMessage"

will enable parse_mode to html and use HTML hexadecimal (hex) reference(&#x1F601) for unicode U+1F601

answered Dec 06 '19 at 09:16

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score 0 · Answer 14 · answered Jun 08 '21 at 16:24

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Note that, at least with JavaScript/Node.js, you can just paste the emoticon's directly into the code and they translate find into the Telegram API. EG.

answered Jun 08 '21 at 16:24

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score 0 · Answer 15 · answered Jul 17 '22 at 21:54

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to get smileys and emojis.. you can always reference this emoji documentation for DEVs https://carpedm20.github.io/emoji/

answered Jul 17 '22 at 21:54

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How to send Emoji with Telegram Bot API?

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> PHP 7

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