displaying tables with a telegram bot?

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I'm going to need to display a list of results as a response from a telegram bot I'm working on, and was wondering what's the best way of doing that...

I could "calculate" the amount of spaces I need to make it look semi-normal, but I'd rather have a better solution, if there is one.

Thanks!

score 2 · Answer 1 · answered May 06 '18 at 06:23

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So, the closest solution I could find is using "pre" inside the bot message (assuming it has parseMode=html), since the characters are all the same width.

I won't be using it eventually, but that's my 2 cents..

answered May 06 '18 at 06:23

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score 0 · Answer 2 · answered May 02 '18 at 05:55

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i prefer generating HTML table as file and then convert it to an image with some tools, and finally send the image to user by sendPhoto method. by this method i can create a beautiful colored table with many options...

answered May 02 '18 at 05:55

علیرضا

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Thanks, but I need it to be clickable (it's going to have links inside...) – trueicecold May 02 '18 at 06:57
please explain more @trueicecold – Alihossein shahabi May 02 '18 at 14:11
@trueicecold so it is better to generate an HTML page and display external link of the page to users... – علیرضا May 03 '18 at 08:03
@علیرضا but then it wouldn't interactive with the bot :) – trueicecold May 06 '18 at 06:19
also you may generate the page with telegra.ph API so the user doesn't exit from telegram... – علیرضا May 08 '18 at 02:57

score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Mar 25 '20 at 19:33

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I have used a PHP library to generate a tabular structure, then used <pre> tag to keep the spacing as it is as suggested by trueicecold

answered Mar 25 '20 at 19:33

ishan0445

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Welcome to SO! Is it possible to post some code along with a screenshot of the table illustrating how the spacing is preserved? – Laurie Stearn Mar 26 '20 at 02:46

displaying tables with a telegram bot?

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