Is it possible to read bot Telegram messages

Question

I have successfully created a bot with and am able to fetch messages from a chat using the getupdates method (long polling).

The getUpdates method is only showing user posted messages (clientside). When I post messages directly using the sendmessage method (serverside) these messages do appear in the chat, but do not in the getUpdates log.

This page https://github.com/LibreLabUCM/teleg-api-bot/wiki/Getting-started-with-the-Telegram-Bot-API#getupdates states it logs only when "An user messages your bot, either directly or in a group." and some other ways, but the sendMessage way is not mentioned.

I've read a bit on the setwebhook method (push) but am not sure this will fix my issue.

Is this possible?

Answer 1

According to Bot FAQ, bots will not be able to see messages from other bots regardless of mode.