HTML is always escaped for Telegram

📣 Notification Service(s) Impacted Telegram

🪲 Describe the bug HTML is always escaped even if format=html is passed, so it’s not possible send a notification with any HTML formatting. Currently I switched to Markdown as a workaround, but I’d have to escape a lot of symbols to make it work correctly. I think the data should be passed as-is if html format is specified.

💡 Screenshots and Logs I have apprise-api in Docker with APPRISE_STATELESS_URLS: tgram://${TELEGRAM_LOGGER_TOKEN}/${TELEGRAM_LOGGER_CHATID}/?format=html and testing with curl -X POST -d '{"body":"<b>not bold</b>"}' -H "Content-Type: application/json" http://localhost:8000/notify Result:

🔮 Additional context Looking at NotifyTelegram.py I think

                # HTML
                title = NotifyTelegram.escape_html(title, whitespace=False)

            # HTML
            body = NotifyTelegram.escape_html(body, whitespace=False)

        if title and self.notify_format == NotifyFormat.TEXT:
            # Text HTML Formatting
            payload['text'] = '<b>%s</b>\r\n%s' % (
                title,
                body,
            )

should be changed to

            # HTML
            if self.notify_format == NotifyFormat.TEXT:
                body = NotifyTelegram.escape_html(body, whitespace=False)

        if title and self.notify_format == NotifyFormat.TEXT:
            # Text HTML Formatting
            title = NotifyTelegram.escape_html(title, whitespace=False)
            payload['text'] = '<b>%s</b>\r\n%s' % (
                title,
                body,
            )

but I’m not a python developer so I won’t risk changing it myself 😃

[zzeneg]

Thanks for the idea, I ended up with forking and changing your Docker image. I’ll use it until the official one is updated. Everything looks good, I’m able to send HTML to Telegram. Thanks!

[caronc]

Glad you figured it all out! 🙂

I’m going to close off this ticket now then. But if you do have any more issues, please don’t hesitate to open up another!