Pyrogram: The provided reply markup for the game is empty (caused by "messages.SendMedia")

Question

I'm using pyrogram to send a html 5 game to my friends. I create a game call "popspike" from @botfather and this is the link of my html 5 game. Image below is the game example without inline button. The button is auto generated by telegram and the button is not works to launch my html 5 game.

According to discussion in stackoverflow and the documentation manual provided, we need to use callback_query.answer(url="your website") to open my html 5 game (popspike), so I create an inline button to callbakc the query data.

@app.on_message(filters.command("popspike"))
async def start_command(client, message): #send game to user & inline button send callback query
    await message.reply_game('popspike'
   ,reply_markup=InlineKeyboardMarkup([[InlineKeyboardButton("Play popspike",callback_data='test',callback_game=CallbackGame())]])) #reply markup is the error
   
@app.on_callback_query()
async def openquery(client, callback_query): #show text "hello" and open my html 5 game through `url` para
    await callback_query.answer("Hello", show_alert=True, url='https://lmjaedentai.github.io/popspike')

But I met this error when I want to call this command /popspike to send my game to user, so I failed to send the game to user.

Telegram says: [400 REPLY_MARKUP_GAME_EMPTY] - The provided reply markup for the game is empty (caused by "messages.SendMedia")
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "D:\Desktop\coding\discordpy\env\lib\site-packages\pyrogram\dispatcher.py", line 222, in handler_worker
    await handler.callback(self.client, *args)
  File "D:\Desktop\coding\discordpy\env\lib\site-packages\pyromod\listen\listen.py", line 93, in resolve_listener
    await self.user_callback(client, message, *args)
  File "d:\Desktop\coding\discordpy\telegram\main.py", line 118, in start_command
    await message.reply_game('popspike',reply_markup=InlineKeyboardMarkup([[InlineKeyboardButton("Play poxpspike",callback_data='test',callback_game=CallbackGame())]]))
  File "D:\Desktop\coding\discordpy\env\lib\site-packages\pyrogram\types\messages_and_media\message.py", line 1633, in reply_game
    return await self._client.send_game(
  File "D:\Desktop\coding\discordpy\env\lib\site-packages\pyrogram\methods\bots\send_game.py", line 74, in send_game
    r = await self.send(
  File "D:\Desktop\coding\discordpy\env\lib\site-packages\pyrogram\methods\advanced\send.py", line 77, in send
    r = await self.session.send(
  File "D:\Desktop\coding\discordpy\env\lib\site-packages\pyrogram\session\session.py", line 362, in send
    return await self._send(data, timeout=timeout)
  File "D:\Desktop\coding\discordpy\env\lib\site-packages\pyrogram\session\session.py", line 332, in _send
    RPCError.raise_it(result, type(data))
  File "D:\Desktop\coding\discordpy\env\lib\site-packages\pyrogram\errors\rpc_error.py", line 91, in raise_it
    raise getattr(
pyrogram.errors.exceptions.bad_request_400.ReplyMarkupGameEmpty: Telegram says: [400 REPLY_MARKUP_GAME_EMPTY] - The provided reply markup for the game is empty (caused by "messages.SendMedia")

I do provide InlineKeyboardButton in send_game but why Telegram says "reply markup for the game is empty" ?

I apologizes for the long question since I afraid you cant understand I want to ask.
Hope you can help me. Thank you. 🙏🏻

Answer 1

Do this on the second paragraph:

@app.on_callback_query(filters.regex('test'))
async def openquery(client, callback_query): #show text "hello" and open my html 5 game through `url` para
    await callback_query.answer("Hello", show_alert=True, url='https://lmjaedentai.github.io/popspike')

Give the argument filters.regex('test') inside @app.on_callback_query()

Answer 2

As per the docs of InlineKeyboardButton

You must use exactly one of the optional fields.

So try removing callback_data='test' from the construction of the button.

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Edit: More precisely, send_game will automatically add such a button to your message. You only need to manually attach a keyboard, if you want more than 1 button to be appended. In this case, the first button must be the one with callback_game=CallbackGame().

Note that for this button, callback_data is not needed to be able to parse the resulting CallbackQuery. This is because CallbackQuery.data will not be present, but CallbackQuery.game_short_name will.

The corresponding explanations from the official Telegram docs:

• If you send the game message without any buttons, it will automatically have a 'Play GameName' button. When this button is pressed, your bot gets a CallbackQuery with the game_short_name of the requested game. You provide the correct URL for this particular user and the app opens the game in the in-app browser.
• You can manually add multiple buttons to your game message. Please note that the first button in the first row must always launch the game, using the field callback_game in InlineKeyboardButton. You can add extra buttons according to taste: e.g., for a description of the rules, or to open the game's official community.