Can you use Telegram Inline keyboards in media groups?

Question

I am reading the documentation, and while .sendMessage() method has reply_markup argument, where you can pass the inline keyboard, media group (album, few files together, etc) doesn't have such an argument.

# example with python-telegram-bot libriary
updater = Updater("token")
button = InlineKeyboardButton("this is a button.", callback_data="woo!")

# this works
updater.bot.sendPhoto("https://google.com/cat.png", reply_markup=InlineKeyboardMarkup([[button]]))

# but this doesn't 
updater.bot.sendMediaGroup(InputMediaPhoto("https://google.com/cat.png"), reply_markup=InlineKeyboardMarkup([[button]]))

Just wanted to make sure that this is actually true, since every other type of message CAN have an inline keyboard.

Answer 1

Media groups can't have a reply markup. Neither the send_media_group method nor the InputMedia* classes (which is the correct input type for the media argument of send_media_group) have a corresponding argument.

Please see the docs of

• send_media_group: PTB Telegram
• InputMediaPhoto: PTB Telegram

and PTBs wiki entry on sending media groups.

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