Telegram Bot gets “Bad Request: message text is empty”

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When my Telegram bot sends sendMessage to Telegram server it gets the error message:

{"ok":false,"error_code":400,"description":"Bad Request: message text is empty"}

The problem appeared this morning, before that my bot worked a whole year without errors. GetUpdates command works well as before. I use GET HTTP method to send commads:

https://api.telegram.org/bot<MyToken>/sendMessage

with UTF-8-encoded data attached:

{"chat_id":123456789,"text":"any text"}

Has anyone encountered this?

Best Answer

If the issue still persists, try to modify your curl request. For me adding header 'Content-Type: application/json' and -d '{"chat_id":12309832,"text":"any text"}' fixed issue

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Php – Telegram BotApi, Send message to multiple chat_id

There is no way to make bot to sendMessage to multiple chat id but there is a trick that can fix it for now :)
Why not sending each chat id a message ?!
Let's look at this example in PHP :

<?php
$message = "Hi John";
$chatIds = array("xxx","xxx","xxx"); // AND SOME MORE
foreach($chatIds as $chatId) {
    // Send Message To chat id
    file_get_contents("https://api.telegram.org/botTOKKEN/sendMessage?chat_id=$chatId&text=".$message);
}
?>

Can Telegram Bot sends message to group

Yes you can, you have to invite the bot into the group, grab the chat_id of the group and send the message as you are sending a normal message to a private user.

The error message is self-explanatory tough.

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